by ddorband | Jan 29, 2012 | Food, Staff Blog, Sustainability
To follow up on Dawn O’Brien’s post about the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI), I just wanted to post a link to the USDA’s Food Desert Locator. This program maps out areas that are considered food deserts within the United States based on...
by ddorband | Jan 28, 2012 | Food, Intern Blog, Sustainability
As reported by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), Congress included $32 million in funding for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) in the recently passed “megabus” appropriations bill for FY 2012. The initiative aims to fund food retail...
by ddorband | Jan 27, 2012 | Food, Intern Blog, Livestock, Sustainability
It is estimated that the average meal travels well over 1,200 miles by truck, ship and/or plane before it reaches your table. Locavores often cite “food miles” — that is, the distance food is shipped to market — as a reason to eat local. Christopher L....
by ddorband | Jan 26, 2012 | Aquaponics, Food, Livestock, Staff Blog
Are you spending as much as twice as much as you did last year to feed your livestock? Are you struggling even to find good hay for your livestock? Have you even had to sell some of your animals because feed is so expensive and hard to find? If the answer to any of...
by ddorband | Jan 25, 2012 | Food, Intern Blog, Urban Farming, Urban Foraging
A new movement is sweeping the nation as urbanites are visiting local parks, abandoned fields, alleys and sidewalk cracks searching for their next meal. This guerilla campaign, known as urban foraging, is gaining ground as how-to tours are popping up across...
by ddorband | Jan 24, 2012 | Food, Intern Blog, Urban Farming, Urban Foraging
From Vancouver to Los Angeles, younger generations are hearing the call to arms or rather the call to swap stilettos and suits for muck boots and overalls — uniting in a movement to farm within the limits of their city. A woman, Marcy Winograd, was quoted in a...
by ddorband | Jan 19, 2012 | Staff Blog, Sustainability
I just came across this link of a slideshow of Tumbleweed Houses. For those of you that don’t know about Tumbleweed Houses, they are basically tiny houses that are designed to be very space efficient. Some of them can even be built on a flatbed trailer that can be...
by ddorband | Jan 13, 2012 | Aquaculture, Intern Blog
Americans love seafood. Whether it’s sushi, a grilled filet of Mahi Mahi or a tuna steak. But it can sometimes be a game of Russian roulette as to where your seafood comes from and how safe it is to consume. Reports of tainted or even poisonous fish imports have and...
by ddorband | Jan 12, 2012 | Food
One of our volunteers, Dawn O’Brien, sent this video to me, which really sums up how we should all look at food not as something that comes to you prepared and packaged, but as a raw product that strengthens us and nourishes us at a very basic level. Yum!...
by ddorband | Jan 10, 2012 | Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Intern Blog
Currently, the Nourish The Planet aquaponics system lies on the property of a school in Campion, Colo. The school leases several greenhouses to us in order for our systems to operate. While we have yet to incorporate our aquaponics system with that of the classroom...
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