A recent program funded through the Leopold Center at Iowa State University proved successful in increased local food use at four northeast Iowa school districts.
Tucked away in the heart of Orlando along the Mills 50 district of downtown stands a green 1920s-styled house, neighboring several holistic businesses along Thornton Avenue.
Winemakers have mixed responses when it comes to championing local wines at L.A. restaurants.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says local food is growing quickly from a niche market into something that's generating significant income for communities across the country.
People want to support their communities by buying and eating what is made close by. Rural economies want to rebuild around the idea of “local,' but it is not easy.
A small but growing number of developers are expanding the local food movement by finding and connecting risk-taking entrepreneurs who are ready and able to innovate.
Pittsburgh City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday making it cheaper and easier for residents to get permits to raise chickens and goats and keep beehives. The ordinance replaces a 2011 urban agriculture zoning law that charged city residents fees totaling $340 and required a hearing process that could take 10 to 12 weeks. Now, homeowners and renters can bring a site plan detailing a desired coop, apiary or other animal structure and get a permit in a single day for $70. “It’s a big step forward for the chicken people,” said Jody Noble-Choder, organizer of the annual Chicks in the Hood urban chicken coop tour who also runs an urban “farm” and bed-and-breakfast with her husband in Highland Park. “Not only was the process expensive and time-consuming, but there was about a 50 [percent]
A small but growing number of developers are expanding the local food movement by finding and connecting risk-taking entrepreneurs who are ready and able to innovate.
A bill recently introduced in Congress, the Young Farmer Success Act, would make farmers eligible for federally subsidized student loan forgiveness — just as teachers and nurses are now — on the grounds that agriculture is a public service. But is it?
Olivier Jerphagnon needed a customer. So he drove toward the farmland north of Fresno, with his marketing director by his side.
For more than a decade, Chicago has been at the forefront of the green-roof movement. Now the city is poised to take an active role in the next environmental push — using roofs to grow food.
A farmer’s program in New York City instructs immigrants with agricultural backgrounds in the industry by offering classes and providing land.
Under the scorching sun, dozens of Thai villagers, dressed in flowery shirts and traditional costumes, parade a white cat caged in a bamboo-woven basket door-to-door and let neighbors splash water on the unlucky feline, while chanting an ancient tune:
