Good Food for All

Daily Digest: Shifting Ground, Slow Food in Indianapolis, and Beef Processing

An updated grant database is available on Good Food for All's Grants Page. 

To protect her farm, a woman in Michigan wants to turn her land into an eco-friendly cemetery after she dies.  

Restaurant Opportunities Center in Chicago and workers at a local Andersonville restaurant won a victory to receive back wages. 

Civil Eats did a 2009 re-cap of its most popular stories. Among them included a post on the growing food movement in Indianapolis. 

USA TODAY continues the debate on food safety and USDA. The New York Times also has an article on the safety of beef processing. 

Happy New Year! 

Daily Digest: Illinois Environmental Heroes, Sustainable Food Stories,

Governor Quinn announced the 2009 Illinois Environmental Heroes.  Among them include local food leaders Debbie Hillman, Garry Griffith, Dinah Ramirez, and Michael Howard.  

Food safety in school lunches could become an integral part of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act set for March 2010. 

Download the 2010 Project Orange Thumb garden grant application. Twenty-two grant recipients in the U.S. and Canada will receive $1000 worth of tools and more.  Deadline is Feb. 19, 2010. 

Change.org highlights the top 5 sustainable food stories this year: The White House Garden, food safety and health care, farmers markets, web portals for local food, and urban farming.  Below is a USDA chart showing the increase in the number of farmers markets over the past fifteen years. 

 

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Daily Digest: Friends of Slow Money, Family farms, and Ground Beef Recall

   

For one week, Friends of Slow Money is raising funds to support local food systems.  Join the Slow Money Alliance by giving $5 or more here. 

 The New York Times takes an in-depth look at a ground beef recall and the effects of E.coli contamination. 

School districts in Illinois are reporting a large increase in free lunch waivers. 

AP reports that more Americans are growing food on 'hobby' farms.  For family farms though, income levels have decreased due to lower crop and livestock prices. 

USDA announced its grant opportunities for socially disadvantaged, small producers.  

Daily Digest: Food Safety bill passes House and Sustainable vs. Organic at Green City

The Prairie Crossing model is being adapted in South Burlington, VT. 

H.R. 2749 (Food Safety Bill) passed the House, and will move on to the Senate. 

A look at sustainable vs. organic at Green City Market. 

Tim LaSalle, CEO of Rodale Institute, and Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farms, each respond (here and here) to a recent UK study on organic food. 

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer writes an op-ed on New York City's food policy initiatives.