Farms that achieve stability and success through the community supported agriculture (CSA) model were among the inspirations for hivethrive. Joe and I have written about CSA farms a number of times here, so it was with interest that we read a prominent article in today’s New York Times entitled Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy [...]

Today’s New York Times examines the continuing draw of food festivals in California, where many of the favorite local foods being celebrated are increasingly threatened. Patterson, longtime home of an apricot festival and self-proclaimed “apricot capital of the world,” is growing fewer apricots these days due to low-cost imports of dried apricots from Turkey. Gilroy, [...]

A few weeks ago, Evan wrote about the awesome box of veggies he gets from a local farm each week. My wife and I subscribe to the same community supported agriculture program at Full Belly Farm. We are very lucky to have something like this where we live (Berkeley, CA).
For those of you [...]

The Environmental News Network (ENN) reported yesterday on a study that found consumers are willing to pay more for locally produced foods. The same day, Air America Radio’s Thom Hartmann argued on his program that consumer choice is inadequate to achieve a transformation of our economy to responsible forms of production.
Can these contentions be reconciled?

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In his extraordinary book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan observes that the detachment of Americans from culinary traditions has contributed to a “national eating disorder”: for many, choosing among foods is a stressful ordeal that seems fraught with risks. While America’s diversity contributes to the lack of a cohesive culinary heritage, Pollan writes that marketers [...]