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The Travel “Bug”

Apr 18 2011 in Adventures in Local Food by Amanda Slater

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 up meaning airports and restaurants near highways that are notorious for abundant [...]

Adventures in Local Food #4

Mar 22 2011 in Adventures in Local Food by Tim Adkins (admin)

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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 Food Safety Modernization Act to the USDA deregulation of genetically-modified round-up ready alfalfa, sugar beets and biofuel [...]

Adventures in Food #3

Feb 20 2011 in Adventures in Local Food by Tim Adkins (admin)

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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 to mention on the food system itself). Specifically, we saw that although industrial food production is a root [...]

Adventures in Local Food #2

Jan 12 2011 in Adventures in Local Food by Tim Adkins (admin)

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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. It was a fear that became even more pervasive in late December when the Food Safety [...]

Adventures in Local Food

Dec 10 2010 in Adventures in Local Food by Tim Adkins (admin)

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 farming experiment would spawn a local hot sauce and salsa business. Ypsi-Grown, Ypsi-Made, y’all! But [...]