tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587345497549919922024-03-13T09:18:31.895-04:00FOOD TRUTHa carleton college communityKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118537040585657540noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-69054905519714427752012-07-08T16:21:00.000-04:002012-07-08T16:21:09.197-04:00Birchwood CafeThis weekend I had brunch at Birchwood Cafe in Minneapolis, whose slogan is "Good Real Food." Fantastic Real Food would be a better description of my meal: an asparagus, fontina, and quinoa waffle, topped with treats like hazelnut honey butter and rhubarb.<br />
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Birchwood features many local and organic ingredients. I was also excited to find that they sell seed packets to support Northfield's Grow a Farmer Fund! A quote on their wall struck me as an apt reflection of what I've learned from Food Truth: <b>"Innumerable measures bring us this food; we should know how it comes to us"- Zen Meal Prayer.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-409913160284340122012-06-29T12:46:00.001-04:002012-07-08T16:22:47.944-04:00Open Farms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I recently spent an evening volunteering at Open Farms in Belle Plaine, MN. I was blown away by the farm's beauty and the organization's wonderful mission! Open Farms is an organic farm run by the nonprofit Open Arms of Minnesota (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.openarmsmn.org/">http://www.openarmsmn.org/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">). The produce grown there is used to cook delicious and healthy meals for people with life-threatening illnesses. Volunteers cultivate the vegetables, prepare the meals, and deliver them to people in need. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">In the Real Food movement, we talk about food that "truly nourishes" consumers, producers, and communities. The meals that pass through Open Arms fulfill that ideal splendidly! This week I pruned tomatoes, and I'm excited to follow those tomatoes from the earth, to the kitchen, to the table as I continue volunteering.</span><br />
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farmers. All proceeds go to the Rural Enterprise Center's Grow a Farmer
Fund, which provides loans to local, low income farmers to start poultry
production. <br />
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This was from an email that Dylan Gessner sent me when I asked if fundraising was allowed:<br />
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"We on Rotblatt Crew like to think of ourselves as altruistic people,
what with all the funsiez we give out in the shape of 12 oz. cans o'
beer. So yes, of course, please bring your good cause to our fine event,
and we'll all have a grand ol' time!"<br />
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Follow up will be coming tomorrow (or more like Sunday)<br />
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Also, stay tuned for a fiery post from Taylor Owen regarding Stevie P. and the Real Food Commitment...shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-63676885591479961662012-05-06T22:46:00.001-04:002012-05-06T23:05:22.240-04:00Stir-Fry: Cooking 101 with Bon Appétit!<style>
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I wish it were last weekend again.
Even if the weather was as dreary as it was today, at least we didn’t have the
dismaying prospect of Monday classes dampening our moods. Even better was that
last Sunday we could look forward to celebrating the last few hours of our
daylong vacation cooking yummy food with fantastic people. Last Monday
afternoon, Bon Appétit and Firebellies joined forces to launch Cooking 101,
Carleton’s first-ever campus-wide event that gives students the rare
opportunity to use the LDC facilities while learning to cook a meal from
scratch. With the generous help of Executive Chef Michael Delcambre, Executive
Sous Chef Daniel Watrin, and Dining East Sous Chef Gibson Price, the twelve of
us learned how to prepare our very own stir-fry.</div>
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The chefs enthusiastically
demonstrated everything from proper knife-handling form to preparing our own
stock to peeling ginger with a spoon to tossing stir-fry with gusto. The
eclectic ingredients in our cornucopia consisted of naturally fed chicken from Ferndale
Market; fresh vegetables including baby bok choy, mushrooms, ramps (wild leeks which are awesome and can be found in the arb), peapods, ginger, garlic, and
more; and a delicious concoction of a sauce that carried a hint of teriyaki
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Divided into three teams that were
each lead by one of the chefs, we embarked on our delectable mission. Vayu,
Taylor, and I, assisted by Gibson, elected to make a vegetarian stir-fry, in
which we replaced the chicken with seitan. I was fascinated by the artistry
with which Gibson flipped the stir-fry into the air with such precision and
adroitness, and I hope to one day gain even an iota of that skill. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to Right: ramps (yum! so fresh and crisp, with a peppery aftertaste), garlic (of course!), ginger (crucial in azn cuisine)</td></tr>
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Stir-fry was originally invented by
the Chinese to be quick and delicious, which proved to be true for us. Ideally,
the actual stirring part of stir-fry takes about three to four minutes because
all of the ingredients are parboiled. This means that they are partially boiled
beforehand and therefore cook sooner when they are introduced into the menagerie in the scathingly hot wok.
For us, the stir in stir-fry took about ten minutes, and the whole cooking
process took less than half an hour. We were able to enjoy the fruits of our
labors in no time. </div>
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Stay tuned for the next installment
of Cooking 101 next midterm break. Anybody have any scrumptious ideas for what to cook then? Hope to see you all there joining in on the
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<br /></div>shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-26754169503353288282012-04-10T21:14:00.002-04:002012-04-10T21:14:42.822-04:00<u style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">FEET</span></u><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">we all got them. and inn accordance with Marika-gets-hurt-within-the-first-2-weeks-of-moving-to-a-new-country-where-she-cant-speak-the-native-language, I hurt my feet. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I ran in the imperial palace grounds, which are lovely and line with cherry blossoms and full of people walking their dogs, ext, but is unfortunately a trail made of small black sharp rocks that are hard to run on. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">I tried last monday, with my roommate Jojo, the day after we moved to Kyoto and realized my feet hurt a few hours later. </span><br />
I didn't run again after that, but proceeded with the usual adventuring... aka walking 5 to 8 miles a day and over the weekend climbed to small mountains. Needless to say my feet hurt a lot more come monday, so I rounded up my friend BIll (who speaks way better Japanese than me, and went to a walk in clinic.<br />
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tell me again why we do not have government subsidized health care?<br />
I don't even speak the language or have insurance, yet I get an appointment for the same day, talk to them for like 15 minutes in broken Japanese and they give me the best possible treatment.<br />
two steroid anti-inflammation drugs direct injection into the foot tendons which have apparently developed tendonitis. I did not know this was possible, but apparently it is.<br />
yesterday my feet still hurt, but today they feel great. bang up job Japan.<br />
(IM GETTING ME SOME OF THAT STUFF BEFORE I GO HOME YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING???)<br />
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so yeah. All's well now. and for people suffering from other problems with inflamation, ask your docotor about injections! they are great.<br />
yay medicine.<br />
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Federal farming subsidies: where are they going? are we feeding people 'real food'? or feeding the pockets of big ag? <div>
This figure makes me cry a bit inside. If you want to look <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">more into the complexities of lobbying and how it determines consumer food intake, I recommend reading the introduction of "<span style="background-color: white;">Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating" by Walter C Willett M.D. </span></span></div>
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The two of us have had some interesting baking adventures during our time at Carleton. There was the time we forgot sugar for the cookies and the time we burnt the chocolate sauerkraut cake (trust us, it's better than it sounds), but today tops the list. We were going to bake brownies, which then turned into chocolate chip cake, and then we forgot the baking soda...so I guess it's...brown goop. With frosting! To our delight, we found that brownie/cake/goop is actually quite good without baking soda. It's just slightly more dense. Who knew?<br />
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Even though our mistakes may not yield the most delicious results, at least we're learning. What is baking if not a giant chemistry experiment?<br />
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Until next time...<br />
Megan and LindsayUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-54769298619677554612012-02-02T21:48:00.001-05:002012-02-02T22:54:49.074-05:00What We Learned from Squash: Reflections on the Carleton Student FarmThe fact is, we didn’t know anything about gardening before we started working as the interns of the Carleton Student Farm. At noon on the hottest day of the summer we decided it was a good time to head up to our plot of winter squash and replace the little squash plants that had already died of dehydration. <br />
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The Carleton Farm is comprised of 1.5 acres of vegetable garden in the yard of Farmhouse and on a large plot behind the softball field (where our longest hours were spent—by the end of summer, hacking through all the weeds up there was like visiting the Heart of Darkness). The Farm interns spend each summer learning about organic, small-scale farming techniques and raising produce to sell to the dining halls. Students enjoy veggies fresh from our own campus all of fall term, and in return, we use the compost produced by the dining hall in the garden for next year’s crops! <br />
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On this particular day, however, we were feeling pretty down on the whole Local Food concept. It was a million degrees—at least! And the dry, dusty dirt blew into our eyes and collected in the creases in our necks. It was too hot to wear long sleeves, so we worked in tank-tops and shorts. (Totally worth it because we got the pleasure of peeling each other’s backs over the next few days.) The sun reflected off of the white row-cover cloth that protected the dying squash plants from dehydration (ha!) and the hard ground scratched our knees as we knelt down to replant seedling after seedling of acorn, butternut, buttercup, and Table Queen squash. <br />
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As we realized that we were going back over a row we had already planted, when we also knew we had hours and hours of weeding and planting to do, the futility of the Farm project hit us full force. The conversation had died off hours ago because we were too grumpy to even look at each other. Finally, as she watered a new transplant squash that was already wilting, Ellen said “Well, aren’t you glad we aren’t subsistence farmers, hoping to make it through the winter?” <br />
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The truth of this comment hit us like a brick, and we dissolved into laughter.<br />
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Laughing at our mistakes was one of the many things we learned to do during our time on the farm. We learned the basics of planning and caring for a garden, gained a greater understanding of the hard realities of organic farming and now understand vividly why food from small farms is so expensive, but so worth it. We soon learned that organizing our lives around the natural biorhythms of the Earth is critical to raising healthy crops and producing natural food, and quickly learned that attempting to fight these rhythms results only in sunburn and dead squash plants. <br />
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We saw firsthand why farmers would want to use monoculture techniques and herbicide-resistant crop varieties. After working all day, literally in the weeds, we realized that committing to producing organic, local food is a job too big to do alone. We needed each other’s encouragement and creativity, and when the going got really tough, students from all sides of the Carleton campus came out to lend a hand, proving that community support is critical. <br />
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The moral of the story: Farming is not meant to be done alone. Small farmers need a community around them, reminding them of the big picture, and why it’s essential that someone do this job. We encourage Carleton to continue supporting local food at the college and in Northfield. And, in case you were wondering, we ended up with 2000 lbs of squash out of that sad little plot – thanks everyone!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;">~Sophie Daudon '13 and Ellen Drews '13</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-79648293299801083632011-10-03T21:20:00.002-04:002011-10-03T21:20:49.882-04:00Slow Food Is Better For You & Your WalletPeople have fallen into fast food's commercialism trap if they believe that junk food is cheaper than real food. By just putting a little time and creativity into a meal, it is easy to create a healthy, wholesome dinner at home that isn't the hyper-processed McDonald's cuisine full of high-caloric fats and greases. The truth is that even though people complain that preparing a meal is more expensive than eating fast food, they end up paying more in both dollars and empty calories at Wendy's than at home. What's even more interesting (and frightening) is that hyper-processed food is designed to become neurologically addictive, not dissimilar to the effects that heroin use causes on the brain. Read more at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2</a>. shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-13414506312213734072011-09-22T18:00:00.001-04:002011-09-22T18:00:15.919-04:00Weaving A Sustainable Food WebWhat's a better way to spend that "awkward time" after dinner this Friday than coming to participate in a community discussion about expanding the local sustainable food system? Carleton College and St. Olaf College are bringing together students, professors, parents, and food activists in an event led by keynote speaker Holly Lasanga of Bates College in her presentation entitled "Weaving A Sustainable Food Web." From students to parents, farmers to educators, we have already done much to improve the nutrition that Northfield's citizens receive. Friday's presentation will serve as another door to increasing the amount of healthy, sustainable food in the community.<br />
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The event will begin at 5:30 PM in Carleton's Great Hall. Carleton and St. Olaf students will present their efforts at promoting nutrition in public schools in the area and initiating movements toward real food on our college campuses. Following, Lasanga will share her personal story about coordinating a three-year sustainable food partnership between Bates and other colleges. The event will conclude with group discussions on thoughts about the next steps the community should take to overcome the challenges and bring more real food to Northfield.<br />
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This event is free and open to the public. If interested, please RSVP to Soraya Dangor of Growing Up Healthy, at <span><a href="mailto:soraya@growinguphealthy.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soraya@growinguphealthy.org</a></span>.shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-63903528471524908462011-09-12T21:45:00.002-04:002011-09-12T21:45:41.638-04:00Test Tube MeatTo some, eating a burger that was actually manufactured in a lab may sound like a chilling nightmare from Aldous Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i>, but to others, the discovery that in vitro meat may be coming soon to our supermarkets is a cause for celebration. Having recently traveled to laboratories in the Netherlands and North Carolina to observe the progress of tissue scientists in their titanic endeavor, science writer Michael Specter eagerly argues in favor of test-tube meat. Scientists retrieve stem cells from pigs and place them in petri dishes of nutrient-rich broth, and these cells rapidly divide and grow to become meat cells. <br />
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Specter explains that animal welfare is a huge part of the motivation for growing meat in labs. "Billions of cows, chickens and pigs would no longer
spend their lives force-fed grain and antibiotics or cooped up in
factory farms." In vitro meat would also benefit the planet immensely by reducing the amount of global livestock needed, which, "according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations, is responsible for nearly 20 percent of all
greenhouse-gas emissions. And as the population grows, more
resources will be needed to sustain the agricultural industry."<br />
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With promising studies such as test tube meat, Thomas Malthus may finally stop churning in his grave. <br />
Read more at <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat">http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat</a>.shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-19926778993336220562011-08-29T14:45:00.001-04:002011-08-29T14:46:11.170-04:00Food and Freedom RidesAs summer is drawing to a close, the journey toward food justice continues. This month, 13 riders, who call themselves the Food and Freedom Riders, traveled 8 states and 2000 miles from the South to the Midwest to spread the word about our nation's broken food system. Their objectives: to highlight local food activism, to educate youth on federal food policy, and to carry the message to political decision-makers that <i>real food</i> is attainable.<br />
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Food and Freedom Rides and its sponsoring organization, Live Real, commemorate the 1961 anti-segregation Freedom Rides that originated in Birmingham, Alabama. Much as the Civil Rights Era Freedom Rides sought to unmask and halt racial injustices all across America, this noble voyage hopes to "expose injustice in the food system, and reveal real solutions in both urban and rural communities." The first Food and Freedom Ride took place from August 7 - 18 and brought the riders from the deep south to Detroit, Michigan, and the second ride venturing through California is happening from August 26 - September 2. Check out the Food and Freedom Riders' adventures here: <a href="http://www.good.is/post/spreading-food-justice-from-the-hood-to-the-heartland/">http://www.good.is/post/spreading-food-justice-from-the-hood-to-the-heartland/</a>shanna.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577268673178682257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-32510556876575889282011-08-24T14:34:00.000-04:002011-08-24T14:34:46.410-04:00Little Hill Berry Farm<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div>Last spring, Carleton students volunteered at a local blueberry farm. The farm is run by two local Northfield residents and is just getting started. We helped unload thousands of blueberry bushes and helped plant them at a planting party. It was a great way to escape the Carleton bubble and meet Northfield residents. We had a great time and hope to help again this year!</div><div>Check out the blueberry farm at <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT436_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://littlehill.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">http://littlehill.squarespace.com/</a></span></div><div><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT436_com_zimbra_url"> </span></div><div><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT436_com_zimbra_url">Lauren holding blueberry plants!:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0emXiJvk46Mm0Ug6VLD1_Sbza5fczGCfnZ3gOzzi9xkvoi0G5T2eMR9c7_KSXGmnalXjVOoLfsyKTN8lGZMccYPViLclSsahaE69e1W_dwTSJQdKPk4jACvM8_XF7jiIlshFU2RMlG4/s1600/DSCN0146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0emXiJvk46Mm0Ug6VLD1_Sbza5fczGCfnZ3gOzzi9xkvoi0G5T2eMR9c7_KSXGmnalXjVOoLfsyKTN8lGZMccYPViLclSsahaE69e1W_dwTSJQdKPk4jACvM8_XF7jiIlshFU2RMlG4/s320/DSCN0146.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT436_com_zimbra_url"> </span></div></span>Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-13473061181737643832011-08-24T14:32:00.000-04:002011-08-24T14:32:21.880-04:00Eat the Lawn<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Eat the Lawn is a student run vegetable and flower garden on Carleton's quad. Started as an art independent study, students plan, plant, maintain the garden each season. The food and flowers are for everyone and anyone! Stop on your way to calculus class to grab a cherry tomato or pick some flowers to put in your friend's mailbox on <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT435_com_zimbra_date">Friday</span>!</span><br />
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</div></span>Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-36142811251572376352011-08-20T21:39:00.001-04:002011-08-20T21:41:33.467-04:00Turtle FarmThis summer I volunteered a couple days a week at a farm near my home in Des Moines, Iowa called Turtle Farm. Check out their website here: http://www.turtle-farm.com/<br />
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Turtle Farm is an organic CSA (community supported agriculture) in Granger, IA. Angela Tedesco is the owner, and Ben, the farm manager, runs things with the help of three full-time employees (Lucy, Darrin, and Josh), and numerous volunteers. The farm grows many different types of vegetables: eggplant, pole beans, snap peas, beets, squash, tomatoes, strawberries, asparagus, cucumbers, okra, chard, lettuce, and peppers, just to name a few. Ben likes to grow many unique varieties that you can't find in grocery stores. I didn't know there were white eggplants and brown peppers called sweet chocolates! One of my favorite parts of this summer was learning about all of the different vegetables (and sampling them, of course).<br />
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I've gotten to help out with many different tasks during my time at Turtle Farm. I had very limited farming experience before this summer, so I learned a lot. I helped harvest, weed, move fences, weave plants up trellises, lay down weed fabric, and set up irrigation. This experience helped me appreciate how much work farming really is. I was usually there for 3-4 hours, but the farm crew puts in 8 hour days. As hard as the work is, it is extremely fulfilling. I like feeling that my physical effort is accomplishing a worthwhile task, because what could be better than feeding people? It's also a great way to spend time outdoors and see all kinds of cool critters (I'm an insect fanatic). Yesterday we found a bullsnake that's endangered in Iowa! All in all it's been extremely rewarding, and I'm grateful to everyone at the farm for giving me this experience. I'm looking forward to future agricultural adventures.<br />
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by Megan Brant '13Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-48005314317812417262011-08-07T21:46:00.000-04:002011-08-07T21:46:15.770-04:00"UW study finds large dairy farms produce higher quality milk more often than small operations"Food Truther Courtney Halbach found <a href="http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/article_f1376d66-bc87-11e0-acd5-001cc4c002e0.html">this article</a> in her local newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal. The study used two measurements of milk quality: bacteria count and somatic cell count, which measures infection in cows. As the title suggests, with these measurements, large industrial farms appeared to have higher quality milk than small, family operations. Critics of the study point out that these are only two narrow measurements of milk quality, and that issues with industrial farms go beyond milk quality to issues such as water pollution.Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-73638135222990381192011-08-03T23:50:00.000-04:002011-08-03T23:50:06.951-04:00Wal-Mart going local?There was an interesting article in my local paper (The Des Moines Register) recently about Wal-Mart's plan to buy more local produce. I couldn't find a link to that article, but I found a similar one published in the NY Times in October 2010. Wal-Mart's shift to local could have huge positive implications, since Wal-Mart is the largest grocer in the nation. But is the produce truly "local", or is it only a marketing ploy? Some critics are also concerned that buying produce--even local produce--from a large, industrial corporation does not have all of the benefits of purchasing directly from a farmer through a CSA or farmer's market. Check out the article here: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/business/15walmart.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/business/15walmart.html</a>Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-16089725282883851182011-08-03T23:40:00.000-04:002011-08-03T23:40:34.568-04:00Rural Enterprise CenterThis past spring, Food Truth began speaking with a group in the Northfield area called Rural Enterprise Center (REC). REC helps low-income, rural Latino families start up natural, free-range poultry farms that are ecologically and economically sustainable. Learn more from their website: <a href="http://www.ruralec.com/">http://www.ruralec.com/</a>Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-5790103172275590832011-07-19T00:22:00.000-04:002011-07-19T00:22:53.649-04:00Taking out TysonThis past spring, Food Truth has been hard at work on two campaigns. 1. We successfully reached our goal of getting fair trade, organic bananas in the dining halls (more on this campaign to come), and 2. we started our campaign against Tyson chicken.<br />
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BonAppetit gets its chicken from Tyson, the world's largest meat producer. Tyson's business practices have a number of detrimental effects on animal welfare, the environment, and human rights, which Foodtruther Tayler Owen details in his <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=733520&issue_id=733419">article</a> that appeared in the Carletonian back in May. Because of these issues, Food Truth has decided to take a stand and call for an end to Carleton's business with Tyson. <br />
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Taylor's article caused a bit of a controversy and prompted BonAppetit to investigate Tyson's alleged overuse of antibiotics in their chicken. BonAppetit claims that it <a href="http://www.bamco.com/page/18/antibiotic-reduction.htm">"only buys chicken raised without the "non-therapeutic" routine use of human antibiotics as feed additives."</a> The article suggests that Tyson's practices do not align with BonAppetit's standards, so Helene York, the Director of the BonAppetit Foundation, investigated. She then wrote a <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=735516&issue_id=735339">response</a> to Taylor's article which appeared in the May 13th Carletonian, in which she brings up some interesting points. It is really exciting to see Food Truth getting recognition at this level, that our voice can really make a difference, and that BonAppetit is very willing to work with students and address our concerns. This is just the beginning of an exciting campaign that has the potential to create change on a large scale. Way to go, Taylor! Meganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475453943363276929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-20455629688682702842010-02-12T11:47:00.000-05:002010-02-12T11:47:49.080-05:00Foodtruth Week of Green Wars!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhak8nxldLBJ29hR86eWs1gqENb-B_RmT4Pr81ytntQ77m99jISd2KTrxQhyphenhyphenpw5tJVej6aZHqFiQgJl-T-Y-bZaazgohu_t3o2RPNXEXhxll8VGpqw5uhiBF6Kq5UGAcz_6pgWZOAjT164/s1600-h/P1040664.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhak8nxldLBJ29hR86eWs1gqENb-B_RmT4Pr81ytntQ77m99jISd2KTrxQhyphenhyphenpw5tJVej6aZHqFiQgJl-T-Y-bZaazgohu_t3o2RPNXEXhxll8VGpqw5uhiBF6Kq5UGAcz_6pgWZOAjT164/s320/P1040664.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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After weeks of planning, 7th Week of Winter Term is Foodtruth Week of Green Wars! We challenge Carleton students to reduce their energy consumption by cutting out meat from their diets, reducing their use of trays and eating more consciously!<br />
On Wednesday February 17th, join us for a panel discussion called "My Food Story." We will be joined by head Bon Appetit Chef Mike Delchambre and a representative of Thousand Hills Cattle Company.<br />
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Hope to see you there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-37555683378432875252009-08-31T13:12:00.002-04:002009-08-31T13:21:28.132-04:00Exciting Government memo about local food systemsDeputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan just sent out a memo discussing “<em>harnessing USDA rural development programs to support local and regional food systems</em>,” which goes beyond fantasies and straight to how this system will be created and funded. Then she starts sounding a bit like the Northfield community kitchen group. She writes: <blockquote><p>Imagine an NGO receiving USDA grant money to construct a community kitchen where farmers drop off produce and families join cooking classes that teach about healthy eating while everyone prepares fresh nutritious meals to bring home…Imagine a community using USDA money to construct an open-sided structure to house a farmers market…Imagine a school using USDA loan money to set up cold storage as part of a larger effort to retrofit the school cafeteria to buy produce directly from farmers and return cooking capacity for school lunch…Imagine…</p><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-72027677920437620352009-05-29T12:52:00.003-04:002009-05-29T13:01:29.939-04:00EAT THE LAWN!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAT8xrwGWQT6QR5KWTBgF5BbK71oxi8PVxr2i_f-i2pwPRGRW6vGtEczhXnBNwW4sYclfqtFoLi_tuw2xLCyXvCZWrvxzS7VayxFMZkbfdhqwN86UPosyQ08M6cmG7kcA6tl2uR6mheeK/s1600-h/EatTheLawn2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAT8xrwGWQT6QR5KWTBgF5BbK71oxi8PVxr2i_f-i2pwPRGRW6vGtEczhXnBNwW4sYclfqtFoLi_tuw2xLCyXvCZWrvxzS7VayxFMZkbfdhqwN86UPosyQ08M6cmG7kcA6tl2uR6mheeK/s400/EatTheLawn2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341290841959458130" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>There's a new garden on campus. Here's what people think:<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Shout</span> has some <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/shout/?story_id=534153">commentary and pictures.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Admissions Office made a <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/video/melissa/">great video</a> and took some <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/blogs/aaronkaufman/?story_id=530652">more great garden action shots.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118537040585657540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-358734549754991992.post-44996442143422072372009-05-29T12:49:00.002-04:002009-05-29T12:52:22.375-04:00FOOD TRUTH WEEK 2009!It was big, it was bold, it was beautiful. <div><br /></div><div><a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=532223&search=food+truth+week&issue_id=532164">Here's what the Carletonian had to say.</a> We'll be in touch soon with our thoughts.</div>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118537040585657540noreply@blogger.com0