Back in the 60s and 70s young people migrated back to the countryside to make a go of farming. Novella Carpenter’s parents were part of that movement. But it didn’t last. People found that growing food is very hard and rural life can be extremely isolating. The motives of today’s generation of farmers are different, [...]
Many vegetables continue to ripen after they are picked. Enzymes in the vegetables continue ripening, converting the sugar into starch. If you just pick vegetables, cut them up and freeze them, they’ll taste like cardboard within a couple of months. To stop that, you need to heat them quickly and then stop the cooking quickly [...]
Goodness, gracious, why aren’t more people talking about this? Meat, poultry industries await new antitrust rules: Federal regulators are set to release the most sweeping antitrust rules covering the meat industry in decades, potentially altering the balance of power between meat companies and the farmers who raise their animals. At issue is how much power [...]
Rooftop Farms co-founder Annie Novak will participating in EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, a conversation about growing food in public spaces on Thursday, April 8th at WNYC’s The Greene Space. [44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street)] For EDIBLE ESTATES: Attack on the Front Lawn, Annie will be joined by Manhattan Borough President Scott [...]
Lots of food policy, agriculture news this week: * Pittsburgh considers reining in urban agriculture, beekeeping and chicken raising. Says the mayor’s spokesperson, “Anytime you see something growing and expanding and there are no rules, you need to regulate it.” Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear …(but darling for the way she manages [...]
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Via Phoebe Maltz, I came across this Freakanomics Blog post about Italian agriculture: Reports of recent unrest by African immigrants in southern Italy have underscored the dirty little secret that, lo and behold, there’s racism in Italy. Lost in the condemnation of Italian xenophobia, however, is a less obvious but equally important discovery: Italy’s bucolic [...]
I don’t realize I’m rambling about varieties of winter squash until I notice people staring at me, bored or confused. Lovely story from the Atlantic Food Channel about a writer returning to the city after a few months as a farm intern. This is more and more something I think I need to do …
