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10 Inspiring Films on Food + Farming: Who Do You Think Should Win the...
Real Food Films contest announced its outstanding finalists in its third short films competition featuring stories about food, farming and sustainability. From the depths of fishing in Thailand, to the...
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Organic sector continues double-digit growth
Organic sector continues double-digit growth By Whitney Forman-Cook © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. WASHINGTON, April 4, 2016 - The number of organic farms is increasing, even after more...
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Embraces Good Food Movement
by Bob Benenson, FamilyFarmed When U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack delivered the keynote address at FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Festival & Conference March 24, he spoke three little words that...
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How Thieves Steal Thousands of Pounds of Cheese and Wine and Get Away With It
Stealing wheels of cheese isn't nearly as sexy as a jewel heist or a bank robbery, but nonetheless food-related thefts are a bustling industry for criminals. The latest episode of the Gastropod podcast...
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Dude Spent 6 Months Recreating A Van Gogh Painting Using Plants In A 1.2-Acre...
Can you imagine seeing a Van Gogh painting sitting right off the freeway on your morning commute or aerial ride? One field in Egan, Minnesota got exactly this when 64-year-old artist Stan Herd...
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This Berlin supermarket just installed a farm inside its store
LONDON — If you're looking for locally grown farm produce, your local farmers market or farm shop are usually your best bet. But one German supermarket has done something a little different by...
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This startup lets you grow bugs for food, right in your own kitchen
In 2015, Katharina Unger, 25, and Julia Kaisinger, 28, packed their bags and flew from their native Austria to Shenzhen, China’s electronics manufacturing hub, and formed a company called Livin Farms....
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China citizens protest ChemChina-Syngenta deal amid GMO worries
BEIJING Around 400 Chinese citizens have signed a letter to protest the purchase of Swiss-based seeds and pesticides company Syngenta by state-owned ChemChina, saying the deal would eventually lead to...
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Lucia Litman’s Instagram Series Shows the Natural Diversity of Fresh Food
Go to your average grocery store, and the color palette can be very bland, the result of the strict cosmetic standards that these stores are up against. Go to a farmers’ market however, and the many...
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Reducing Food Waste Could Curb Climate Change
It’s easy not to think about food waste when your rotting tomatoes and days-old casserole dishes are hidden away in the back of the refrigerator—out of sight, out of mind. But when it comes time to...
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France Bans Some Glyphosate Herbicide Formulations over Health Fears
Reuters reported Friday that France’s health and safety agency (ANSES) has decided to ban weedkillers that combine chemicals glyphosate and the adjuvant tallowamine due to uncertainty over possible...
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France to ban some glyphosate weedkillers amid health concerns
PARIS France's health and safety agency is poised to ban weedkillers that combine chemicals glyphosate and tallowamine because of concerns over possible health risks, it said Friday. The ANSES agency...
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Turkey Burgers Go Antibiotic-Free as Butterball Jumps on Trend
Health-conscious grillers will be pleased to see there’s one step missing from their turkey burgers this summer: antibiotics. Butterball LLC, the biggest U.S. turkey processor, is rolling out a new...
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One-Third of Global Food Production Never Finds Its Way Onto Our Plate
It’s easy not to think about food waste when your rotting tomatoes and days-old casserole dishes are hidden away in the back of the refrigerator—out of sight, out of mind. But when it comes time to...
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Eat an Invasive Species for Dinner
American seafood enthusiasts have spent years dining on salmon, shrimp, and the occasional mahi mahi. Now a new, rather unexpected fish is starting to creep onto menus and into seafood shelves at...
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Gardening is good for you
A Sunday afternoon of pottering round the garden – a bit of weeding here, mulching a bed there – doesn’t exactly seem like an arduous workout. Yet a 2006 study by Pennsylvania’s University of Scranton...
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Investors urge fast food and pub chains to act to reduce farm antibiotics
A group of powerful City investors who together control more than $1tn in assets have written to leading fast food, pub and restaurant chains urging them to take immediate action to reduce antibiotic...
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Facing A Shaky Future, Nebraska Family Farm Ponders A Renaissance
If you're a farmer who wants to stay small and independent, you're under an increasing amount of pressure these days. By the Department of Agriculture's count, a startling 97 percent of all the...
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FDA warning letters include violations with juice, dairy cows
A variety of violations of federal laws are the topic of warning letters recently sent to food companies by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Following are details of warnings sent to companies in...
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The Food Science Lab is Teaching Students to Grow Food in a Chicago High School
Carl Schurz High School isn’t technically located in a “food desert,” but it might as well be. Nine out of 10 students attending this Chicago high school come from low-income households, where highly...
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