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New England Turns To Local Food To Sustain Its Future

Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority | April 28, 2014

The Year: 2060. The location: New England. The menu: At least 50 percent local food. This isn’t the setting for a movie. It’s the vision for the cluster of states known as New England. By 2060, states including Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Massachusetts could be sourcing half of their food from within the region. Read More »

Novel Open Source Seed Pledge Aims To Keep New Vegetable And Grain Varieties Free For All

Nicole Miller | University of Wisconsin-Madison News | April 15, 2014

This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge. Read More »

Think Global, Buy Local: A New Study Looks At The Impact Of Buying Local Produce On Local Economies

P.K. Read | Food Tank | April 10, 2014

The motto ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ has long been a guiding tenet of the sustainable food movement. But does acting locally really make a difference and if so, what kind of difference? That’s just what a team of economists set out to explore in the study Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales, and Regional Growth [...]. Read More »