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"The number of US farmers markets quadrupled between 1994 and 2011, the USDA reports. In another recent study, the agency found that farmers selling into local markets grossed $4.8 billion in 2008, and that direct-to-consumers sales at places like farmers markets spiked 215 percent in real terms between 1992 and 2007."

Interesting afternoon read, what do you think?
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/11/freakonomics-blog-still-wrong-local-food

Freakonomics Blog: Still Wrong on Local Food Once again, blogger Steven Sexton mounts a limp defense of the food status quo.

http://www.good.is/post/a-crowdfunded-farm-brings-traditional-mexican-flavors-to-new-york/

A Crowdfunded Farm Brings Traditional Mexican Flavors to New York - Lifestyle - GOOD Staten Island's El Poblano Farm, and its epazote and popalo, aim to bring the Big Apple out of the Mexican food backwaters.

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Joann Lo - Organizing the Workers in the Food Chain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LccdxulYVuY&feature=related

TEDxFruitvale - Joann Lo - Organizing the Workers in the Food Chain In the U.S., 20 million people work throughout the food supply chain. Who are these people? At lower end of the system are people of color, immigrants, and f...

Instead of banning sodas, DC is prescribing veggies

http://www.good.is/post/in-washington-dc-doctor-s-add-vegetable-prescriptions-to-anti-obesity-arsenal/

In Washington, DC, Doctors Add Vegetable Prescriptions to Anti-Obesity Arsenal - Lifestyle - GOOD Washington, DC's taking a page from other cities' book with a new prescription program for fruits and vegetables.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/watermelon-rubber-bands_n_1651092.html?utm_hp_ref=food

WATCH: This Is How You Explode A Watermelon With Rubber Bands How many rubber bands does it take to burst a watermelon? A video circulating around the Internet shows a group of men putting the question to the test.

Any feedback on this NY Times editorial? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/business/yourmoney/09feed.html?_r=1&ref=localfood

The Feed - If It’s Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener? - NYTimes.com Opening a more nuanced debate on low-carbon diets.

Who is going to the Italian Market night market? Who are you excited to see?

In creating the model for a farm to table restaurant, how can we win people over? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/dining/local-food-has-been-no-easy-sell-in-appalachia.html?pagewanted=all

Local Food Has Been No Easy Sell in Appalachia Steven Hopp — whose locavore experiments with his wife, Barbara Kingsolver, were documented in “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” — is hoping those principles can sustain his rural Virginia restaurant.

I am way more vegan than you! How vegan are you? http://www.good.is/post/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-vegan/

There Is No Such Thing As a Vegan - Lifestyle - GOOD This awesome illustration shows us how amazingly (and disconcertingly) inescapable cow-derived products are, and comes to the hilarious...

Twitter Founders and a Vegan Meat Startup http://t.co/gSGR1muI

"In the next five years, something like 125,000 farmers will retire" ... what to do? http://t.co/VaWm0JiE