Food
Vermonters gather at the State Capitol to remind their legislature of it's duties to work the well-being and Human Rights of all Vermonters
MONTPELIER- Yesterday marked the beginning of Vermont's 2012 Legislative Session. In addition the usual and expected activities going on in the chambers the State Reprentatives and Senate, this year's opening day witnessed a remarkable number of consituents as they journeyed through single digit temperatures to make their voice heard in the Capitol...
On December 4, 2011, farmers and activists from across the country joined the Occupy Wall Street Farmers March for "a celebration of community power to regain control over the most basic element to human well-being: food."
The Farmers March began at La Plaza Cultural Community Gardens where urban and rural farmers addressed an excited crowd about the growing problems in our industrial food system and the promise offered by solutions based in organic, sustainable and community based food and agricultural production. This was followed by a 3-mile march from the East Village...
This is one of a series of short films about Permaculture designers in the Northeast By TerraVisus. In this film, Ben Falk explains how Whole Systems Design established their diversified Agroforestry systems which include storm-water detention basins, ponds, swales and rice paddies, silvopasture systems and intensive rotational grazing. These systems work together to restore the ecology and...yield a useful product."
(Hat Tip to http://vermont4evolution....
My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, "A man can get used to pretty much anything with time, except dying...and even that with some practice." Well, as fate has it, it seems we, the vast majority of the human race, are about to test that adage in regard to the availability of our daily bread itself.
Food is one of those funny things it’s hard to live without. We all tend to take it for granted that our local supermarket will continue to offer whatever we wish, in abundance, at affordable prices or...
The “Food Landscape” of the Social, Political and Economic World is changing fast. Trying to keep up on all that is happening is a challenge.
Introducing my new e-News Paper The Food Watch Daily. It is an automatically generated news paper from selected RSS feeds and Twitter accounts covering food; issues, regulation, legislation and solutions.
The paper is released every day at 10 am Eastern Standard time. After it is released I will be hand selecting articles and videos to publish as well as edit the overall content, when my time allows...
As I look at the aspects of sovereignty, I see three that must go hand in hand if VT is to prosper in the coming years: public banking, food sovereignty and local generation of energy. I am not suggesting isolationism, as bioregionalism is an important factor in all this. I am suggesting preparedness.
Sovereignty, in the political sense, puts the discussion on the table, but no politician today is willing to meet that head on. (Though they have done so in Ohio via the nullification of the mandatory insurance premiums.)
Let us move foreward in the knowledge that being ready is not quite the...
As of October 31, 2011, the demographers at United Nations recently proclaimed, the population of the Earth reached 7 billion. Just a dozen years ago, it passed 6 billion. As disturbing as this event was, it was not nearly as upsetting as the UN’s projection that the Earth’s population will be an estimated 9.3 billion by 2050. In effect, by mid-century, the Earth, already overburdened with one India, will be asked to bear the burden of two more.
I am a trained social-scientist...
(Video below) Vermont guerilla gardeners at Occupy Wall Street plant Organic seeds from the grassroots Vermont based seed company High Mowing Seeds. These activists, though not affiliated with High Mowing, are fulfilling their philosophy:
"we believe in re-imagining what our world can be like. We believe in a deeper understanding of how re-built food systems can support health on all levels – healthy environments, healthy economies, healthy communities and healthy...
This past Tuesday, the 13th of September, two migrant farm workers were arrested during a “routine traffic stop”. VT Governor Shumlin has ordered an investigation. Excerpts from The Seven Days Blog article with my responses.
According to Hoag (the Driver a US citizen),...
Following the Food Sovereignty Movement that was solidified by the Via Campesina, Family Farmers in Maine are standing-up to state and federal regulations, claiming their right to sell their farm products locally. Watch the recent Maine PBS report on the four towns that have passed Food Sovereignty Ordinances. If it weren’t for these local ordinances some of these family farms would have gone under!
Via Campesina “the Peasants’ Way” is an international grassroots movement which...
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