Food News

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines recommend two cups of fruit each day at the 2,000 calorie level. Although the USDA dietary guidelines provide that a cup of 100 percent fruit juice can count as a daily serving of fruit, an article in … [Read more...] about Home-Grown Raspberries Make It A Cinch To Meet Recommended Dietary Guidelines

American Farmland Trust's 12th Annual Farmers Market Celebration for 2020 starts on Monday, June 22 and will run through September 20, 2020. Supporters and customers of farmers market can start voting for the most essential market in their community helping them win national … [Read more...] about American Farmland Trust Offering Cash Prizes For Top 3 Farmers Markets in USA

Beyond Pesticides (formerly national Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) was established nearly 40 years ago to raise public health and environmental concerns in order to counter the pressures of the chemical industry to shape and control local, state and national … [Read more...] about Persuasive Position of “Beyond Pesticides”: Perceive Green Lawns Untreated With Chemical Pesticides As Ecological

For us it’s been about asking ourselves, how can we still show hospitality at such a weird time and place in our industry, when our traditional means of showing care and attention have been taken away from us? So muses Jinah Kim, the owner of and unstoppable force behind Sunhee’s … [Read more...] about Small & Local Farm to Table Restaurant Endures Pandemic With Heartfelt Values

Look & See, the recent film portrait of Wendell Berry (the novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic and farmer), includes fascinating archival film footage of Berry debating former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz nearly 50 years ago. Butz, urging … [Read more...] about Zeroing Out “CAFOs” In 20 Years: “Farm System Reform Act” Making Headway in DC