Julian seems a bit dubious about the three pounds of Winter Wheat I handed him for this “candid” shot. By the way, we’ve been loving those smooze! fruit ices you see in his hand. The one Julian has is guava…
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August 24, 2008
Posts By: Andrew Kang Bartlett
August 20, 2008
One straw revolutionary lives on
Just over a year after his death, FUKUOKA Masanobu was the main topic of conversation at our Thanksgiving meal table today. Fukuoka was an amazing man who I had the chance to meet at his farm on Shikoku Island back in 1985, when I was living in Japan. His contributions to agriculture, permaculture and profound philosophies undergirding farming, nature and life are innumerable.
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August 18, 2008
oh! basil
Home-grown basil makes for a healthy, simple and quick meal year round when made into pesto and frozen in small portions.
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August 14, 2008
seattle youth garden works rocks
Seattle Youth Garden Works is awesome, and I’m trying out this widget from change.org which allows you to give to the project. Go for it. Or start a fundraising page for them. Just click below… Interview with Marcus and Susan…
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August 2, 2008
GMOs: worth another look
The Lesotho (know where it is? let us know in a comment) and Los Ranchos Presbytery Joining Hands partnership is looking into the role of GMOs, or genetic engineering, in their food system. Monsanto, the prime mover in GMO research…
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July 17, 2008
food crisis update and even some good news!
Dear food and faithers, I thought a couple updates on the food crisis would be helpful while your two primary bloggers, Anitra and I, (let us know if you wish to write for this blog!) are here at the Peacemaking…
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June 17, 2008
obese children
As many as one in three children and adolescents are obese in the United States. Here are some recent articles on the topic thanks to Virginia Clarke of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders: A Plan for Overweight Kids…
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June 16, 2008
guerrilla gardening, from Heidi
If you want to beautify freeway space, feed the hungry, heal the earth and risk arrest, then guerrilla gardening is for you. This is a brilliant and hopeful new underground movement from a piece of God’s good earth that desperately…
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June 13, 2008
Corporations seek profit from food and climate crisis
If the patents are granted, these companies that already dominate biotech seed would control most of the “climate-related gene families submitted to patent offices worldwide,”
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June 12, 2008
today? a buffet
I’m leaving town next week for a while and have been squirreling these away, but winter is definitely over. So here is a Smörgåsbord for Food and Faith blog readers. Eat up. Ice cream crisis as bees buzz off The…
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