Tag: Food Forward Thu, June 20, 2013
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Livefeed: Trip Notes
Reviews Jul 13, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
After two months visiting farms, ranches, restaurants and schools across California the Food Forward road trip is shifting gears. I’m parking the Airstream and letting my family out while my partner Greg Roden and I and the rest of the Food Forward team refocus our efforts on getting the pilot show aired. We still plan to visit several cities later this year to screen our pilot episode on urban agriculture.
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Livefeed: Organic Pastures Dairy
Reviews Jun 29, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
Raw milk is often seen as hippie food, but when it comes to food, hippies were right about a lot of things (organics, granola, compost). And as more people discover the facts about where their milk really comes from, raw milk will look better and better. After meeting Mark McAfee at his Organic Pastures dairy in Fresno, I’m a bigger believer than ever in the value of raw milk.
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Livefeed: Helping Hands
Reviews Jun 10, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
The good-food movement isn’t just about good food. It’s about good people, and I’ve been privileged to meet some of them. People like David Hill, owner of Chef’s Table restaurant in Rocklin, an oasis of creative and delicious farm-to-table food in a sea of chain-restaurant homogeneity. David went out of his way to help us during our short stay there.
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Livefeed: Live Power Community Farm
Reviews Jun 03, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
Watching Decater glide the plow over the field, it would be easy to write off his animal-and-solar-powered farm as archaic, silly even. But is it? Decater does use a few tractors to bale hay and perform a few other tasks, but most work is performed by animals, i.e., live power. Long ago, Decater decided to opt out of the market economy and run Live Power as a community-supported farm.
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Livefeed:On The Road
Reviews May 13, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
After a rocky start, the Food Forward Road Trip is finally underway. Finances aren’t fully in place, there are repairs still needed on our Airstream, one of the beds keeps collapsing and the trailer needs new tires, but my family and I are officially out of our house and living in the trailer full time.
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Livefeed: Food Forward
May 04, 2011, by Stett Holbrook
In addition to the research, interviews, blogs and video content, I’ll be writing about my experiences for Live Feed. I can’t wait. I’ve written about the environmental consequences of what we eat many times before but it’s been as an office-bound observer from afar. Now I can go out into the farms, ranches, restaurants and fishing boats and see for myself what’s wrong and what’s right with the way we eat.
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City Farmers
Reviews Oct 15, 2010, by Stett Holbrook
I’m all for small-scale agriculture, but what difference were these city farms making? A few people were getting some fresh lettuce and tomatoes and learning how to grow their own food, but is that it? Industrial food production is a disaster, but given the power and reach of the factory food machine, what change can cute, plucky little urban ag bring about?
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