Category Archives: Social

Farm Internships: Time to revisit the fair wage labor law

Posted by Guest Author  |  October 20, 2014

By Matthew Myers Vermont farmers have been in the news lately for violating complicated labor laws that exempt agricultural labor from certain standards, but not other farm activities, like processing milk into cheese. Since the VT Department of Labor began … Continue reading →

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Marching for the Future of Food at the People’s Climate March

Posted by Darryl Benjamin  |  October 14, 2014

On September 21, 2014, I joined a sustainable agriculture contingent at The People’s Climate March in New York City, which laid claim to the largest climate march in history with over 400,000 people marching. All told, the climate march had … Continue reading →

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The Unintentional Chocolatier

Posted by Alison Nihart  |  October 2, 2014

During Sarah Fidler’s semester abroad in Paris during her junior year, she wrote a dissertation on pastries and macarons. She was fascinated by the anthropological side of cooking and baking, the history of why certain foods are made in different … Continue reading →

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Cooking Up Change

Posted by Guest Author  |  September 30, 2014

By Amy Trubek For over a decade, I have been involved in conversations with folks about our contemporary food system. When our food talk turns to changing how our food system operates, we often end up talking about which is … Continue reading →

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Fiction and Sustainable Food Systems

Posted by Darryl Benjamin  |  September 25, 2014

Imagine if you had the ability to choose any of the issues under the agricultural sustainability umbrella and could then run computer-generated outcomes according to variables of your own choosing. This kind of modelling is being done with weather, urban … Continue reading →

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