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Some reasons behind the need to rebuild our food systems.
Tribeca Film Fest: 'Food Chains' - HuffPost Live
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Wage theft, physical abuse and outright slavery: sound appetizing? America's agricultural workers go through it to put food on all of our plates. Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," and activist…
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Regional Food Commons as a Systemic Answer | David Bollier
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A fascinating new project, the Food Commons, aspires to radically change this reality.�
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Ooooby via FacebookWant your Ooooby box for cheap? Ooooby Box Packers needed! Our crew get 40% off their box and 20% off any add ons. If you have a spare couple of hours on a Tuesday morning, have great attention to detail and want to be up close and personal with local produce - come box packing with us! We are based in Mt Wellington, start at 6:45am and finish around 11:30am. Pay is $15 / hour. If you are interested please get in touch with Davy: davy@ooooby.com We need one permanent packer and two relief…
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Free to enter and fun to do! The aim of the Green Urban Living Autumn Challenge is to create a personalised green revolution for every person. The Challenge will help us all find and provide a range…
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I produce a facebook blog posting news articles on global food security issues. Feel free to post any articles you come across that are specific to the topic and properly researched.
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Posted by Suburban Micro Food Forest on April 5, 2014 at 10:24pm
In order to fund our planned move to a potential permaculture block I am back selling real estate on Auckland's north shore. I did this job back in the 90's in Epsom/Remuera. If you have a question about the market or would like to know what your property might be worth, email me james.westaway@raywhite.com
Sorry for the commercial, but it's for a good cause :-)
Posted by Suburban Micro Food Forest on April 5, 2014 at 10:16pm
Another long dry summer. A mowing contractor is adding regular loads of grass clippings. Kali's heirloom tomatoes have been fantastic - we can't keep up with them. Interestingly they have very thick skins and the birds have left them alone. We peel them by dropping them in boiling water for 10 seconds. Had loads of acid free with basil and various dressings and buckets of the deepest red tomato soup we've ever seen. Thanks Kali! A local I met has saved me a black variety. My corn all dried…
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Have you ever thought about how companies make normal, store-bought cream cheese?
Na, I don’t think about it either.
I’d rather make my own awesome, home-made cream cheese!
It is super, super, super easy.
There are just two steps. That’s right, folks. TWO STEPS. Heck, you can either say it’s just one step.
To make home-made cream cheese you just transfer a container (about 1 kg) of PLAIN yogurt into a…
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