Adventures In Local Food

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Get Local by Stefanie T. Stauffer If you’re not glad you live in Southeast Michigan yet, you’re not paying attention. In a state that has the second highest number of independently-owned farms in the nation and crop...

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Adventures in Local Food #6

Save CFA! by Stefanie T. Stauffer Catherine Ferguson Academy has a farm. Complete with an apple orchard, beehives, goats, chickens, turkeys, geese, and even a horse in the pasture, CFA is arguably the most famous urban farm in ...

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The Travel “Bug”

Adventures in Local Food by Stefanie T. Stauffer As much as I love to travel, the most difficult part for me is the food. Travel used to provide an opportunity to try exotic and delicious foods, but more often now it just ends ...

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Adventures in Local Food #4

Rustbelt Revival! by Stefanie T. Stauffer I know what you’re thinking. We’ve seen a whole lot of critique about government policy and the state of our food system here in the land of local food adventures. From the ...

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Adventures in Food #3

Infinite Green Tomatoes by Stefanie T. Stauffer Ok. So last time we spoke about the Food Safety Modernization Act (S510) and how its passage will have adetrimental impact on the local economy, environment, and our health (not t...

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Adventures in Local Food #2

Driving Us Underground? by Stefanie T. Stauffer As we left our heroine in our last installment, we were trying to expose the fear of food at the heart of thebureaucratic challenges undermining our ability to chose to eat local....

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Tales of a Food Fighter By Stefanie T. Stauffer When I first started growing my own food at the Frog Island Community Garden back in the spring of 2009, I would’ve never predicted that 18 months later my little urban farm...

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