Posts Tagged as ‘green news’

July 21, 2009

Who Grows YOUR Food?

I stopped by Chino Farm yesterday, thinking they were open on Mondays during the summer but it just goes to prove I haven’t been anywhere near these parts in the summertime in awhile. The farm was closed, which turned out to be even better, because it gave me the opportunity to visit with the family [...]

July 18, 2009

Chew On This, Chipotle!

I went to a screening of the movie Food, Inc. last night hosted by Chipotle—the Mexican fast-food chain that I was always under the impression was owned by McDonald’s but that from what I gleaned through various unreliable sources on the world-wide-web turns out to be urban myth. The movie was exactly what I expected [...]

May 14, 2009

Am Food. Will Not Travel.

Today’s NYTimes story, When Local Makes it Big, is a great story that shows just how removed Americans are from their food. I mean really: if anyone out there truly believes that because Frito-Lay shows them a farmer on television (sadly most people have never seen a farmer!) that Lay’s cares about farmers, or about [...]