UVM Food Feed

New Book Explores Farm-to-Table Principles in the Food Movement

Posted by Guest Author | September 13, 2016

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By Hailey Grohman

UVM Food Feed contributor Darryl Benjamin is one half of the author team behind a hotly anticipated new addition to the sustainable food systems bookshelf: Farm to Table: The Essential Guide to Sustainable Food Systems for Students, Professionals, and Consumers. A New England Culinary Institute professor for seven years, Darryl now teaches in the Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems program at Green Mountain College.

Part textbook, part how-to, Benjamin and his co-author Lyndon Virkler’s book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in sourcing, serving, or even consuming farm-to-table food. It is divided into two distinct parts: Farm, a history of modern agriculture and its impacts on society; and Table, a guide to employing the principles of farm-to-table philosophy in a variety of different sectors.

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Posted in Economic, Environmental, Vermont | Tagged Economy, Environment, food culture, local foods, Vermont | 1 Comment

Thought for Food: Food Ethics Textbook Edited by UVM Faculty is the First of its Kind

Posted by Alison Nihart | September 9, 2016

When was the last time you felt guilty about eating a particular food? Perhaps you were concerned about the people who were involved in the production of the food. Perhaps you were indulging in “junk food,” which you know is unhealthy.

Tyler Doggett, left, and Mark Budolfson are the editors of a new food ethics textbook.
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Posted in Economic, Environmental | Tagged ethics, UVM | Leave a comment

New Americans and Access to Good Food: What Do We Know and What Aren’t We Asking?

Posted by Guest Author | September 7, 2016

By Cheryl Herrick

If you’re paying attention to food systems work and research in recent years, you know that terms like “food access” and “food desert” and “food insecurity” are ones that are used a lot. They stem from concern for individuals and communities and their ability to adequately address hunger, as well as positing that there are systems that impact access and, too often, a lack of access, to healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food.

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Posted in Economic | Tagged Economy, food access, food security | Leave a comment

How the Back-to-the-Land Movement Helped Propel Demand for Organic Food

Posted by Erica Houskeeper | September 2, 2016

Kate Daloz grew up in a geodesic dome in Glover and lived a rural, do-it-yourself lifestyle with her family. Her counterculture parents, who left Cambridge to flee the trappings of post-war America, found solace in raising a family in the Northeast Kingdom, Vermont’s most rural region.

Now a freelance journalist, Kate recently published her first book, “We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America.”

Kate Daloz signs copies of her new book “We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America” at a homecoming event at the Glover Town Hall. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger

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Posted in Environmental | Tagged farming, food culture, organic, organic farming, Vermont | 1 Comment

Food in the News: Veterans Find Careers through Farming; How the Sharing Economy Can Help Local Food; Chefs are Growing Their Own

Posted by Erica Houskeeper | August 30, 2016

Vermont Veterans Find Careers and Peace Through Farming
(via VPR) A nonprofit organization is trying to get more Vermont veterans into the farming business. The Farmer Veteran Coalition only has about a dozen members in Vermont so far, but it’s already changing lives. Read more.