USDA

Where does your food dollar go?

March 14th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · farmer, FYI, healthy foods, Jen

What’s wrong with this picture? From Food Politics by Marion Nestle – USDA has changed the way it reports the country’s annual expenditures on the food system. It has just released the Economic Research Service’s new food dollar report. As the report explains, it is designed to answer the question “For what do our food [...]

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How we can bridge the food divide

December 2nd, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Erin, healthy foods, in the box

Food for Thought From the organizer… In the Nov 29 Newsweek article called the Divided We Eat, Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma) was quoted as saying “we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.” CSA falls into the latter. I wanted to share with you [...]

Anniversary Party / Field Day to celebrate BARC

June 4th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · Announcement

From Local Mix newsletter,The 100th anniversary party for the renowned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville, MD is this Saturday. BARC will host a fun-filled and educational field day on Saturday, June 5, from 10 am to 4 pm.

Alert of the week

May 17th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · FYI

In this week’s Organic Bytes, we refer you to this article about safeguarding organic standards. Click here to read.

People’s Garden

April 23rd, 2009 · Click here to add a comment · FYI

The USDA’s The People’s Garden was unveiled yesterday as Secretary Vilsack announced plans to make it even bigger and better.