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Local Food

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twig

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 funguswww.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

Info table in front of the wall Wildbienen   The back of the Nistwand
Info-Tafeln stellen die Wildbienen-Arten vor Information panels are the Wildbienen-species  

Botanical Garden Bonn: Little Bee Booth

 

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. 

twig

IT'S TIME FOR A FOOD FIGHT from NO GMO on Vimeo.

 

 

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