Tag: Food
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Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills
Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers. Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…
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Agribusiness advocacy organizations work to block “time-tested” strategies to increase crop yields in drought conditions
The New York Times has a great piece by Gary Paul Nabhan on the threat posed to our food supply by the heat wave now blanketing the Western States: People living outside the region seldom recognize its immense contribution to American agriculture: roughly 40 percent of the net farm income for the country normally comes…
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The “Portable Toxic Threat Detector” lets you know if your food is safe to eat
If you are interested in knowing what’s in your food, you may soon be able to use the portable toxic threat detector or PTTD, a mechanism developed by third year electronics and telecommuncation engineering students at GH Raisoni College of Engineering, Saurabh Puranik, Shreya Dhondarikar, Sagar Nasre and Sowmya Singh. It will not only tell you…
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Organic wine making – there’s always more to learn in the game
An ABC local affiliate in Canowindra talks to vintner Sam Statham from Rosna Organic wines about his 2012 NSW Organic Pioneers Award: Ask any wine maker and they’ll tell you there’s always more to learn in the game. Given half a chance, who wouldn’t take up an opportunity to visit some of the world’s oldest grape…
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Silicon Valley code-hackers team up to promote sustainable meat production
Patrick May, of the Mercury News, writes about an interesting event that took place last weekend: “Hack//Meat Silicon Valley,” advertised as a way for “leading technologists, entrepreneurs and sustainable food insiders to ‘re-imagine the future of meat,’”went like this: Sponsors issue a set of challenges to come up with ways to advance sustainable ranching and…
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Whisky and Poetry Salon
It doesn’t get better than this! In November 2012, Kim Ohanneson & Karolyn Kiisel of Literary Libations, and Johnnie “theScot” Mundell, “ambassador” for Morrison-Bowmore Scotch, inaugurated the Whisky & Poetry Salon at the B Black Penthouse in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). Our goal has been to trade guests “whisky for their words”, to create an intimate literary and poetic…
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No oversight of GM foods by FDA
Karma Allen of CNBC points out that if you want to know if a product is genetically modified – don’t ask the FDA: Last year $2.4 billion worth of products were sold with a label saying they do not contain ingredients from genetically modified organisms, but the claim wasn’t backed by any government regulatory agency.…
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