sustainable farming

The FarmPlate Young Farmers Series: Samantha Joelle Honey Lamb From Early Bird Acres
Jeff Gangemi Aug 02, 2012 sustainable farming 0 comments
NAME: Samantha Joelle Honey Lamb FARM: Early BIrd Acres AGE: 27 Can you provide some brief background information about your farm? In your opinion, what makes it special or unique? Early Bird Acres, the name, has only been around for three years, but my farm was homesteaded 110 years ago. Myself and the woodland Gnomes that live on the acreage specialize in Cheese, Cow & Pig Meat....& Seasonal Honey. Different Honeys such as Mountain Meadow Honey & Alfalfa Honey. But really, I try to go above and beyond with my Animal Husbandry. I practice the art of picnics with my cows and pigs to make them feel like they are part of the family. My milk cow, Ohio, a 3 year old Jersey,...
The FarmPlate Young Farmers Series: Blain Snipstal From La Minga
Jeff Gangemi Jun 27, 2012 sustainable farming 0 comments
NAME: Blain Snipstal FARM: La Minga (Cooperative) AGE: 23 Can you provide some brief background information about your farm? In your opinion, what makes it special or unique? My farm and its community is unique for its composition of the campesinos and campesinas involved - all of which, apart from myself and two others, are from Central America. So that adds a unique flavor to the equation, along with the collective/communal and subsistence mentality that supports the entire culture of the project, the space that floats around the land there welcomes all (including the local deer, family of turkeys and chickens and bees). It's a beautiful thing really. When I got involved, they asked...
Sustainable Food Mecca Stone Barns Beckons to New Yorkers
Jeff Gangemi Feb 01, 2012 sustainable farming 0 comments
Everyone knows that New York City has long been home to a diverse and thriving food culture, with growing numbers of artisan food producers, urban farms, and locavore-friendly restaurants.  But for those looking for a glimpse of fertile land unfettered by the trappings of the big city, there is a sustainable food and farming mecca just 25 miles north of Manhattan. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center that grows over 200 varieties of produce year-round. Farmers there also raise laying hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, geese, sheep, pigs and bees. It's already relatively well-known, but we at FarmPlate wanted to give them a plug for the...
National Food Day promotes healthy eating & sustainable farming
Natalie DiBlasio Oct 24, 2011 sustainable farming 0 comments
In our hectic society, the convenience of mass-produced, highly processed packaged food often trumps the reality of its negative impact on health and the economy. The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest is hoping to spear this norm by hosting Food Day today, October 24th. Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way, the website states. "Food should be delicious, a source of joy and nourishing," Michael Jacobson, executive director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in the Huffington Post. "But all too many foods in the typical American diet are anything but...
Time 100's Urban Farm Pioneer
FarmPlate May 11, 2010 sustainable farming 0 comments
Every year Time Magazine names the Time 100, a list of influential people that the publication has honored as "the people who most affect our world." This year, alongside household names like Lady Gaga, Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey was Will Allen, a legendary urban farmer whose mantra is "Grow. Bloom. Thrive." Allen, a former Miami Hurricanes basketball star, founded the non-profit program Growing Power in 1993. Allen designed a program that offered teens, often minorities and immigrants, an opportunity to work on his two-acre farm space in a low-income area in urban Milwaukee, renovating greenhouses to grow food for the community. Allen believes “Everybody, regardless of...
Gates Foundation & U.S. to Support Global Ag Fund
FarmPlate Apr 27, 2010 sustainable farming 0 comments
Four countries and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have come together to create the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, a fund dedicated to increasing food production and encouraging sustainable farming practices in the world's poorest countries. In the wake of the economic crisis and rising food prices, there are approximately one billion hungry people worldwide. According to the World Bank, three quarters of those one billion people depend on agriculture for a living. The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program will invest in farm machinery, improving planting and irrigation techniques and building better roads to link farmers to their markets. The U.S. has already...