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watched this documentary about the local food revolution in (mostly) oakland, california, in chicago, at a young aggies event yesterday. made me think, “–___–;; i should be back home already.” anyway, recommended film. (better than “Ingredients”.) watch the whole thing online here. (like, i didn’t even know there was a garden at berkeley alt. high. and f—ing h it sucked ass that i was in san diego while occupy oakland was going on. i didn’t know they did an “occupy the food system” thing, too.)
planted parsley. watched Soul Food Junkies earlier. Edible City next. at Young Aggies’ event in Bridgeport, Chicago.
» Berkeley Jewish farm mixes agriculture, learning

“I never planned to come back to Berkeley, but now that I’ve found this place I never want to leave,” said Hayley Currier, 23, one of Urban Adamah’s dozen or so volunteer farmers who live together in a communal house near the farm. “Now I want to do this forever — subversive farming, mixing agriculture with social justice.”

sfgate, 03.02.12.

oh so Berkeley.

» No, that’s not snow: Pesticides coat California’s Central Valley

“The fruit pickers bring them to the warehouses where the oranges are washed and waxed to look the way you see them in the supermarket. But most of the time,” Becky nods towards the fields, “they don’t come off the tree looking like that.”

Decades of applied pesticides and fertilizers have delivered high yield, immaculate-looking fruit to many of the supermarkets in the U.S. and to the far corners of the globe, but not without a local cost. Heavy pesticide and fertilizer use in Central Valley orchards that produce household staples such as oranges, peaches, nectarines, grapes, olives, and walnuts has contaminated local community drinking water.

But pesticides and fertilizers are only part of the problem. The primary groundwater contaminant in the region is nitrate, which can also be traced back to Central Valley’s other reigning ruler: Dairy. 

grist.org, 01.02.12.

who’s for organic/bio/eco/luomo?

» House GOP decrees that pizza is a vegetable

climateadaptation:

To save “farmers”…

… to “prevent overly burdensome” school lunch regulations.

I totally remember eating public [elementary] school pizzas! They came in small rectangular aluminum trays, wrapped in plastic. Always two choices of cheese or peperoni. 

But anyway, this new declaration from our “leaders” is proof that America can sink lower.


If school lunch pizzas were like this, no one should mind!

(Source: think-progress)

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