“Did you know that as much as 30 percent of all produce grown on farms is plowed under because it doesn’t look good enough to be sold in supermarkets? That is true. But Marin Organic is working to change all that by harvesting the rejected crops to provide local schools with healthier lunches. It’s free…and they say you could do it too. The national TV show Eco Company tells the whole story in this report. For more stories like this [...]
“Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic based farmers’ markets, one youth led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to support social businesses and small farmers and farmers of color.” http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/ Video from commonseed
“A growing movement of people is reconnecting to their food and it’s more then just hobby. The midwest’s grassroots movements are uniting to build local food systems across the corn-belt. In response to issues of economic revitalization, health, and community resilience, Are we ripe for change?” http://www.growmovie.net/ From GrowAwarenessMedia canadian pills store
Dr. Preston Maring is the Associate Physician-in-Chief at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, where he helped to establish a Farmer’s Market. In our interview, filmed in May 2009, Dr. Maring discusses setting up the farmer’s market, the relationship between preventative medicine and good food, as well as discussing the joy cooking for oneself can provide.
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