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The Facebook of Local Food
IATP Food and Society Fellow Deborah Kane and the Portland-based nonprofit Ecotrust recently launched FoodHub, an interactive online tool that pairs regional food buyers and sellers. This innovative...
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The State of Sustainable Food Systems Investing
This posting by Elizabeth Ü originally appeared in Civil Eats. Elizabeth Üread more
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Walmart and the End of the Local Food Movement
By Anthony FlaccaventoOriginally published on the Huffington Post.Anthony Flaccaventoread more
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Fresh approach to selling groceries
By Jennifer Wilkins Originally published at timesunion.comLast week I was asked by my local planning and economic development committee to define grocery store. The city of Ithaca is developing a...
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An increasingly more Common Market in Philadelphia
This article by Sue Spolan, originally published in Flying Kite, features the work of IATP Food and Community Fellow Haile Johnston creating a food hub in north Philadelphia.An Increasingly More Common...
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More Than a Grocery Store
In 2001, IATP Food and Community Fellow Brahm Ahmadi and two friends envisioned a grocery store in West Oakland, CA, that could serve the neighborhood with a selection of fresh foods and also act as a...
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Reubuilding a Hometown Food System
Thanks to Mark Vanderhoek of Mercer University News for this article.Kelvin Graddickread more
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Reinventing the modern food chain in Philadelphia
You may not have heard of Common Market Philadelphia, but it’s time for cities across the country to start paying attention. IATP Food and Community Fellow Haile Johnston is a founder and board chair...
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Show Them the Money
Capitalism has been somewhat discredited lately. The unregulated hand of the market, it seems, leads not to a richer society but one with vast income disparities and a growing class of workers without...
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Diverse Grocery for a Diverse Food System
The Blue Scholars are a two-man hip hop group from Seattle, Washington who have been singing and rapping since 2002. This summer, their new video was about their favorite Asian grocery store, Fou Lee....
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Culture in the Grocery Aisles
The intersection between food and culture is one of the most powerful evolutionary forces running through our food system. In many ways, it’s the changing of culture over time that has led to a...
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Turning the Tide on the Shrimping Business
Originally published in the Washington Post By freezing his catch at sea, a Louisiana shrimper turns the tide on his business. Jane Blackread more
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Where lazy shoppers and farmers are friends
This month’s Smarter Food focuses on an innovative coop in Wooster, Ohio called Local Roots. The carefully conceived venture solves many of the issues faced by small farmers and foodies who love...
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Reinventing the CSA
If it’s February, it must be time to feel guilty.It’s not because I’ve broken any new-year diet resolutions. (I don’t make any.) It’s because I will not join a CSA. Flexible CSA models are sprouting...
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Introducing Food Hubs, Starring Common Market
One of the ways that good, healthy food gets relatively expensive is through the involvement of numerous middlemen between the farm and the consumer. Food Hubs are a new way of doing business that...
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Lenders Learn how to Bank on Small Farms, Local Food
By Patty CantrellPublished on the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Blog; featured by the Meridian Institute as a story of the day.Nic Welty employs himself full time year-round raising...
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New Roads to New Markets: Patty Cantrell does TEDx Manhattan
As TEDx talks spring up around the country, inspired by the original conference on "ideas worth spreading," IATP's Food and Community Fellows past and present keep showing up with great ideas of their...
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In New Orleans, an Actor Turns Grocer
Originally published in the New York Times.Had Emeril’s Delmonico been open for lunch, Wendell Pierce would probably have ordered the duck confit leg, served with a creamy barley risotto, roasted beets...
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Making fast food sustainable
Originally published in the Washington Post.At Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in Birmingham, Ala., it’s policy that every day, everything is made from scratch: the pimento cheese, the hickory-smoked brisket and...
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People's Community Market awarded first-ever grant from FreshWorks Fund
The California FreshWorks Fund issued a press release last week announcing a grant award of $25,000 to People's Community Market.Brahm Ahmadiread more
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