Food
First Lady on Community Gardens
“I’m a big believer in community gardens, both because of their beauty and for their access to providing fresh fruits and vegetables to so many communities across this nation and the world.” – First Lady, Michelle Obama, Ferbruary 19th 2009
Tractors and Lamborghinis
Jim Rogers: “You’re going to see stockbrokers driving taxis. The smart ones will learn to drive tractors, because they’ll be working for the farmers. It’s going to be the 29-year-old farmers who have the Lamborghinis.” Read more…
Food Security Animation
Take a look at this short animation produced by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture. It does a great job of summing up how individuals are effected by and can affect global food security.
Eat City Hall
An amazing statement for a more sustainable food system was just planted at San Francisco city hall. It’s entire front lawn was removed and replaced with a Victory Garden, filled with a variety of edibles, to coincide with the Slow Food Nation conference that is taking place there at the end of August.
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