Now on ScienceBlogs: I'm not vulnerable, just especially plastic. Risk genes, environment, and evolution, in the Atlantic

Seed Media Group

The World's Fair

All manner of human creativity on display

Search

Profile

haeckel.gif

- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.

peale.gif

- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.

taste.gif
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8


Recent Posts

And so forth...

- Subscribe to the World's Fair
- Send me emails!

cannonball.gif
Cannonball Series


authorblogger.gif
Author-Blogger Series


Tt.gif
STUDENTS ROCK!


"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

PF.gif
Puzzle Fantastica 1 | 2 | 3


batman.gif
Batman as scientist


showdown.gif
SCIENCE SHOWDOWN!


geekmusic.gif
Science songs 1 | 2

Recent Comments

Links


sciencescoutsbadge.gif

Into science and badges? Then check out the Science Scouts. Go ahead - join the facebook group, or follow the twitter feed.


boingboing.gif
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6


039a6a6632927c2b1869363d8ba3f4e9.gif
(Banner image by Tsethe)


Wikio - Top Blogs - Sciences



View blog authority


Blogroll

Archives

« One More Thing You Shouldn't Inhale: The Past and Future (But No Present) of Carbon Nanotubes and Asbestos | Main | The Science of Sarcasm »

Farmers Do Social Networking Too: New Models in Sustainable Agriculture

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or dieLinks to interesting sites and discussion of themNatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Posted on: June 4, 2008 1:25 PM, by Benjamin Cohen

farmfoody%20banner.bmp

Here's something on sustainable agriculture: Farmfoody.org seeks to connect those who eat food with farms and gardens. Do you eat food? If so, this might be of interest to you.

The site showcases a featured farm, links to an Eat Well Guide, provides a forum for local growers and buyers to interact and arrange meetings, offers recipes, and allows farmers to tag members with foods that they grow and members to tag farmers with foods that they want.

Their premise follows from these basic definitions:

Farm - a farm, vineyard, PYO, Farmer's Market, CSA, a victory garden -- a local producer. All farms want foodies as friends

and...

Foody - a customer, chef, everyone with a relationship to a farm and who wants to make friends with a farm or another foody. Once friendship is made, a foody receives bulletins that their farm friends post.

It started as a mid-Atlantic venture (one of the founders is from Hollins Farm in Delaplane, Virginia, where it's currently strawberry season). Since the network now has over 750 members, though, I presume it has expanded beyond those confines (or soon will).

In addition to the website itself, you can also read more here.

Share this: Stumbleupon Reddit Email + More

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/73381

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)





ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter
Visit the Collective Imagination blog
Advertisement

© 2006-2009 Seed Media Group LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Seed Media Group. All rights reserved.

Sites by Seed Media Group: Seed Media Group | ScienceBlogs | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM