Remembering Jessie De La Cruz: farm worker, organizer, and activist
This past weekend the United States lost Jessie De La Cruz, one of the early leaders of the United Farm Workers whose historic movement for farm worker justice won...
Why Grow More Food: Simplicity in the Kitchen and in the Fields
Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Delicious meals can be made with very few good quality ingredients, and often the best meals are. Looking through the recipe cards left...
Why Grow More Food: Squeezing Profits from Long Value Chains
The concept of a value chain is useful in understanding how our food system works. As food moves from the field to the table, various people including farmers, distributors,...
Anti-Wal-Mart Escalation: Where are the Farmers?
This week, the world witnessed both another round of well-organized protests against the world’s largest retail giant, Wal-Mart, and a deadly disaster in a Bangladesh factory directly linked to...