Food
"Tantalizing the Senses" Through Farm to School
Anupama Joshi is executive director and co-founder of the National Farm to School Network, an organization that serves as an information, networking and advocacy hub for communities working to bring local food sourcing and food and agriculture..
Food
Forging the Good Food Supply Chain
Tom McDougall, founder of 4P Foods, is a self-described “social justice activist stuck in an entrepreneur’s body.” Born and raised in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State, he later moved to Washington, DC, and found himself on a life-changing..
Organic
The Man Who Wrote the First Organic Standards
Harry MacCormack has spent nearly half a century—45 years to be exact—farming organically at Sunbow Farm in Corvallis Oregon. And although that in itself is accomplishment enough, it’s just the beginning of Harry’s list. Harry is the co-founder of..
Sustainability
We Cannot Feed the World with Industrial Agriculture
Debbie Barker is a writer, consultant and activist who has served as international director for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). A prolific author and speaker, in 2011 she..
Organic
Why the Organic Movement Is NOT "Losing Its Soul"
Bob Scowcroft is an organic pioneer—a storied leader in the organic movement. For nearly 20 years he served as Executive Director of the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), an organization that he co-founded with two certified-organic..
Food
The Greenwashing of our Food: A Guide to Labels and Logos
Navigating today's grocery stores can be pretty confusing. With the plethora of logos, claims and phrases decorating products on the shelves, it can be difficult to find the foods you really want. Greenwashing occurs when a company promotes a..