Good Food is Everybody's Business
Mall food courts are not known for fine dining or even particularly good dining. Or dining at all. Knoshing perhaps… In general, mall walkers and mall rats can choose from fried, grilled, or “steam-table-over-cooked,” when it comes to food options inside those concrete walls. That’s about to change!
What is organic? What’s the difference between “organic” and “natural”? If you are confused, you’re not alone. Meg Moynihan, of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, can help you tell the difference. Ya, you betcha!
Alvarez Organic Farms is not your ordinary Yakima valley vegetable farm! After realizing that he couldn’t compete in the market for the usual assortment of vegetables, Hilario Alvarez took steps that showed he was an intuitive marketing genius. Find out how he did it.
Lindsay Barbieri, farm crew, tells us about Finnriver Farm, a 33-acre organic family farm and artisan cidery located along a restored salmon stream located off Center Road, in the rural Chimacum Valley, a traditionally agricultural region on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
There was passion and more than a few tense moments at the USDA National Organic Standards Board Meeting, however agribusiness and the organic community came together in the end on most issues. The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) concluded its four-day semiannual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on October 28 with votes and decisions on several issues impacting the organic industry.
