Category Archives: Social

What’s On Your Plate?

Drumroll please….We’re happy to share with you our illustrated video on the challenges of the dominant food system, and alternatives for creating healthy people and a healthy planet. It debuted at our Food Systems Summit in June 2012. Share it with … Continue reading

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RECIPE: Old-Fashioned Sour Pickles & Bread-and-Butter Pickles

Local Thetford, Vermont, cookbook author Beatrice Vaughn was a prolific writer, penning cookbooks in honor of maple syrup, apples, citrus, jams and jellies, and preserves and pickles. Pickling, the process of preserving food by fermentation in brine, is a method … Continue reading

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Dispatches from Ireland: Exploring What It Means to Be “Locally Global”

Guest blog post from Paeder Casey, who has worked in the food industry since 1988, at Kerry Group, a global food organisation, then, at his own niche consulting business focused on business and organizational development of SME food organisations. Since 2004, … Continue reading

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Breakthrough Food Leader Sheree Martin: College Professor, Lawyer, Farmer

Sheree Martin joins our Breakthrough Leaders Program for Sustainable Food Systems this June. She is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, a lawyer, and grew up on a farm in North Alabama. … Continue reading

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Breakthrough Food Leader Marian Dickinson: Student & Public Health Advocate

Guest blog post from Marian Dickinson, a participant in our Breakthrough Leaders Program for Sustainable Food Systems. She is a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.  What about our food systems do you want to change? My … Continue reading

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