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LOCAL FOOD
How to grow food
Transforming Communities with Locally Grown Food . Growing food in cold climates.
Organic Farmer Training Program . Year-round food production. MSU
Buy seedlings from Lansing, MI . good quality. $40 per flat of 250 plants... check it out.
Learn about Local Food
Locavore Eating! Learning to eat locally, save energy, and support local economy.
Locavore and food finding websites .
Food among the ruins . Detroit grows food.
Michigan Young Farmer Coalition . In the news.
Stories about young farmers .
Ethical Eating . Newsletter and links. Quite awesome.
Food Security Plan . LOCAL Food Security Plan for Shelburne Fall, CT
The Warren Commons . A local food plan for a farm in Vermont. Lots of very good information.
Fair Food . Website, focusing on Michigan+
Local Food Growers
http://hampshirefarms.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.contact/index.htm
5 family farms- csa cooperative.
Pick your own local food .
LOCAL FOODS .
Henry Ford Hospital, West Bloomfield has a huge organic greenhouse !
Local Harvest . Locate local foods and farms in your area!
Halfway Point Farm . Almont, MI. Sells their own maple syrup, honey, lumber, windows. Keller Family.
Maple Creek CSA Farm . Community Supported Agriculture ! Buy a share, get fresh local food each week.
Three Roods Farm in Columbiaville, MI . Awesome CSA, local eggs, checken and lamb for sale.
The Lazy Gardener . Local farming guys!
UpNorth Foodies . Northern Michigan Organic folks
Local Food Conference. February 8, 2007 in Lansing: Michigan Land Use Institute’s upcoming "Seeds of Prosperity conference" features the latest on local food; its economic, health, and environmental benefits.
The Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, now serves patrons of their reconstructed, 1850s-era pub the same menu its original customers enjoyed with 70 percent of the museum’s food comes from local sources! http://mlui.org/farms/fullarticle.asp?fileid=17091
Local Honey, Almont, MI . Golden Harvest Apiaries
Locavore and food finding websites . plus Connecting farmers with land and more !
Detroit Urban Farms . All sorts.
Real Time Farms . Local fams & meat and restaurants.
Regional Food
Selma Breakfast Salon . Video about this weekly community breakfast to fundraise. Ann Arbor area.
Hand-harvested Seaweed for sale . A worker-owned co. that sustainably harvests off the Maine coast.
The Ann Arbor Food Coop . Such a sweet place, in an old building, human scale, with an attached cafe. Yum.
"Mind Body & Spirits" Restaurant. AWESOME local organic food, recycles, geothermal energy, greenhouse
Native Seed Sources .
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/index.ssf/2009/09/grown_in_detroit_a_documentary.html http://www.lifeanddebt.org/">Videos about food including Detroit & Midwest.
Growing, harvesting, foraging.
We can grow our own food . Seed Catalogues, Seed Savers, Heirloom, Native seeds.
Local Heirloom plants. Bill Pioch's "Nature's Heirlooms" in Lapeer. http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M25582
Heirloom Organics . Information on how to plant, purchase, etc.
MidWest Permaculture . Creating permanent gardens and communities based on nature.
Ehrlum article on Permaculture . With link to the Quaker Queries.
Eco-Social Economy .
Read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle", by Barbara Kingsolver.
Spin Farming . Learn to make significant income on under 1 acre.
Beginning Farmers . A website, and resource for farmers, researchers and policy makers.
Growth of Small Farms . A national map.
Washtenaw Local Food Summit . Lots of great links.
Ann Arbor Township Small Farm Initiative . Support for small farms.
Michigan Young Farmers Assest Map . A good model for any organization to map resources.
Perrenial Plants .
Soil .
Dirt ! the movie.
Yardening . Be the Change. Clover Lawns .
Tips on Transplanting . By Deanne...things to pay attention to.
Organic Consumers Association .
Heirloom seeds & Michael Pollen video on the Omnivores Dilema 2 .
Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Services
Transitioning to Organic .
Cover Crops - buckwheat .
Rodale Institute .
Dirtworks.com . Order organic seeds
Rent a Farmer .
Abundant Sucession . An evolving website about permaculture in the Detroit area.
Pruning apple trees . And other fruits. Includes pictures
Women Ecopreneurs . In farming & Health.
Composting. Create soil from waste. Worm Compost, Outdoor Compost, Composting Toilets.
Deer proofing the garden .
The value of weeds in the garden .
Planting times . Phases of the moon...and more.
Leander and Gretchen Poisson . solar gardening.
Videos on soil science and plants .
Growing mushrooms . a fungus cultivation guide.
Cleaning Oil spills with fungus. www.fungi.com
Paul Stamitz - trailer for movie on fungus remediation.
Michigan teen girl has a CSA garden . Inspiring.
Four Season Gardener . Training program, incubator model.
Hand-nmade broadfork for gardening .
Local foraging . Michigan Ann Arbor Reskilling Fest.
Chickens !
Ann Arbor City Chickens . Website and Chicken Video ! Fun and inspiring !
Chicken Coop . 5 families raise chickens.
Foraging for food & medicinal plants.
Making homes for pollinating BEES. Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers Association
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PERMACULTURE
Permaculture - where to start . Good intro and links.
Permaculture. A design science based on nature which integrates food, energy, economic systems.
Instructor, Penny Livingston on GlobalOneness. A very inspiring 3 minute permaculture video.
Urban Permaculture in the Midwest . Pictures and info.
Permaculture ~ short videos. Natural Design for agriculture, housing and economics.
Whole Systems Design .
Permaculture Herb Spiral and Sheet Mulch Video .
Sheet Mulch garden video .
How to Nurture Ourselves . Auroville, India. Seed Savers, Solar Energy ...
Permaculture Bed & Breakfast in Canada. Good info on natural living.
Fungus can help save the world . Paul Stammits, TED talks.
No-Till Gardening. Fukuoka the French Way
Urban Permaculture Guild ! Great site! ! !
Tony Randall's Permaculture Farm in Pinckney, MI
Permaculture Principles. Some links.
Permaculture, Australia and Detroit .
Irish Cottage Industry & Crafts Documentary Series Food, Natural Building & Practical Arts.
AgroForestry . Ideas, products, deer gaurds.
Preserving & preparing food .
Local Food & preservation . Including Fermenting and Root Cellars
wn food . Links to finding local food, preserving, and lots of food information.
Fermented Foods. Healthy, nutritious, traditional.
Eating soy only as a fermented product . Tempe, miso are best. naturalnews.com
Wild Fermenting ~ Sauer Kraut.
Kefir A fermented food similar to yoghurt.
Eco Friendly Cookies.
Bread Recipe. From Henna Joan
Drying Food . Solar Dehydrators, make your own.
Canning Foods - Spaghetti sauce plus
Video on how to pickle olives . A ferment, really. Easy. U of M study.
Soy contraversy & fermentation . Interesting ideas!
The benefits of Honey !
Root Cellars . Preserve food with the natural temp. of the earth (about 50 degrees)
Events
Workshops at the Michigan Young Farmers Conference . Checl out the quality of these!
Food Concerns .
Seed Industry Charts . Who owns what company.
Soaking grains . to remove harmful substances and increase nutrition
Cell phones can pop corn . for real?
Dangers of GMO . genetically modified foods. excellent re RNA
http://www.dirtworks.net/ Great resources and May 2012 newsletter excellent on pesticides.
IT'S TIME FOR A FOOD FIGHT from NO GMO on Vimeo.
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