Public Produce: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)
By Darrin Nordahl / On October 13th, 2014
Island Press Staff Picks - Food, Genes, and Culture
By Meghan Bartels / On September 29th, 2014
Island Press Staff Picks - Public Produce
By Meghan Bartels / On September 24th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Get Your Hands Dirty Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 11th, 2014
With spring finally starting to show its face, we're thinking about everything that's green and growing. But as Yvonne Baskin shows in Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World, we'd be nowhere without that most overlooked of substances: dirt. In the first chapter, she introduces an amazing world that holds two-thirds of the planet's biodiversity, from gigantic fungi to ancient microbes that can live in boiling hot springs or under sheathes of polar ice.
A New Perspective on Plant Pests
By Darrin Nordahl / On July 16th, 2013
Author Darrin Nordahl's food blog Today is...Fava Beans highlights a different food everyday along with a creative way to easily add it to our everyday diet.
Today's food changed the way I think about food, nutrition, and the environment. It is my epiphany food. And it is a pernicious, detestable weed.
Today is purslane.
#ForewordFriday, Land Grab Edition
By Admin / On December 7th, 2012
This week's #forewordFriday selection is from Michael Kugelman's new book, The Global Farms Race. Did you know that Brazil has plans to take over 6 million hectares of land in Mozambique (that's more than 12 million acres)? All for food security.
Enjoy!
'The Global Farms Race' and the quest for food security
By Admin / On December 6th, 2012
Fresh off the successful launch of The Global Farms Race at The Wilson Center, Michael Kugelman and his new book take center stage in this piece by Foreign Policy's Cara Parks.
Soda Tax or Free Fruits and Veggies?
By Darrin Nordahl / On September 12th, 2012
The soda wars are afizz again in two California communities. Voters in Richmond and El Monte will soon decide whether a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks is an appropriate municipal policy to help combat obesity.
Hunting and the Land Ethic
By Cristina Eisenberg / On January 31st, 2011
I spent a dozen purple dusks and gilded dawns last December hunkered down in the hoarfrost in coulees, hiding in the rabbitbrush and sage during a late-season Colorado elk hunt. In an area with too many elk and not enough wolves, hunting cow elk provides a powerful conservation tool, because of its effectiveness in thinning herds.
What is the Relevance of Vavilov in the Year 2010?
By Gary Paul Nabhan / On January 20th, 2010
Ed. note: Gary Nabhan was recently given the honor of presenting the biennial Vavilov Memorial Lecture in Moscow and offering a similar lecture in Saint Petersburg, and was further honored with the gift of the Vavilov Medal. These are his reflections after years of retracing Vavilov through the centers of food diversity, while writing the book Where Our Food Comes From, and after spending time with the staff of the Vavilov General Genetics Institute in Moscow, and VIR in Saint Petersburg.