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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Serving up the Season: Tasting tomatoes at UVM
By Kaitlyn Elias Kaitlyn Elias is a seasonal staff member for the Farmer Training Program at the University of Vermont. In this post, she shares about a tomato tasting at UVM last month. heirloom noun \ˈer-ˌlüm\: a horticultural variety that has … Continue reading
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Species on the Edge (of a Knife): Can bluefin tuna survive the sushi craze?
By Marguerite Swick Marguerite Swick is a senior nursing student in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont. She wrote this piece for an environmental cooking class she took this past summer at UVM. Sushi … Continue reading
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Food Cooperatives: Chain grocers don’t stand a chance
By Carter Curran Carter Curran is a senior at UVM majoring in psychology with a minor in nutrition. She wrote this piece, which uses the S.E.E.D. framework themes we feature on this blog, for an Environmental Cooking class she took … Continue reading
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Brain-Intensive Farming: On becoming an intellectual farmer
By Andrew Bahrenburg Andrew Bahrenburg is a student in the UVM Farmer Training Program. In this post, he reflects on how his thoughts about the intellectual aspects of farming have evolved since starting the program. In the summer of 2012, … Continue reading
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Counting Calories: Why indirect energy use matters
Eric Garza is an energy systems consultant (Aisthetica.com) and a Lecturer at UVM. This is the second in a series of blog posts from Eric on energy use in the food system. Read his previous post here. In a recent … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Environmental
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