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Sushi Day!
Posted by Susan DeBlieck | May 24, 2011
Last Thursday the AgCulture youth got to make sushi with fresh food from local farms. They chopped radishes, carrots, napa cabbage, broccoli, and kohlrabi. They cooked up some rice and local eggs. Our guest chef was Tomoko Ogawa, an Ames community member famous for her baking and cooking. She helped the youth season the rice and taught them tricks...
Read More >>Fair Food committees popping up on campuses, now!
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Apr 11, 2011
The video above is one of two produced by students at the University of Florida in Gainesville following their participation in the big march on Publix in Tampa at the culmination of the Do the Right Thing Tour. The same UF students also moved their student government to pass a formal resolution calling on Publix to work with the CIW back in...
Read More >>Farmworkers and there future as elders in the community (respect for our elders?)
Posted by Tim Galarneau | Apr 11, 2011
Today, the AARP has helped direct attention to yet another tile in the mosaic, one usually hidden deep in the shadows: the plight of the "retired" farmworker, workers who have given their youth and their health to the fields, but with age and broken bodies can no longer work at the pace necessary to be hired for the harvest. Here is the web link...
Read More >>Whats This Food !!!!
Posted by | Sep 08, 2010Check Youth Radio Eats at youtube.com/youthradioeats or www.youthradioeats.blogspot.org
Read More >>Back In Riverside
Posted by | Sep 04, 2010Its good to be back in Riverside after a peaceful and restful summer taking the Agroecology Practicum at UCSC and attending the West Coast Real Food Challenge Leadership Training in Atascadero, CA. I'm headed out to the UCR student garden to see how its faired the summer heat!
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