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Adventures in Local Food #26

(Re) Imagining a Fair Food System Do you like to eat locally grown and produced food? Are you a stakeholder in the regional food system of Washtenaw County and Southeast Michigan? Then you’re in luck, as the Homegrown Local F...

by Stefanie Stauffer

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Adventures in Local Food #22

In it to win it By now you’ve probably heard about growing food in the city and maybe even about raising urban chickens and bees, but what about tilapia, crawfish, meat chickens and goats? How about worm composting (vermicult...

by Stefanie Stauffer

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Adventures in Local Food #12

One Year of Local Food Hard to believe it’s already been a year of Adventures in Local Food! And what a busy year in food it’s been—from the struggles with confusing and seemingly contradictory food safety legisla...

by Stefanie Stauffer

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Adventures in Local Food #10

The Global in the Local Our value systems shape our consumption patterns as our consumption patterns shape our value systems. This holds true whether you are someone who buys locally-grown food, “ethical” coffee, and Michig...

by Stefanie Stauffer

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Adventures in Local Food #9

Value Systems With all the media coverage about the devaluation of the dollar being added to the chorus of news reports about the perpetual budget cuts, job cuts and cuts to social services that inexplicably have become way too...

by Stefanie Stauffer

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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 Local Food

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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