By Craig Goodwin on 03/10/2010
If I could impose my will on every American for the sake of the environment it wouldn’t be to change light bulbs or mandate carbon footprints. My mandate would be for every American to start a garden and grow their own food
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged food and faith, Gardening, gardening as a revolutionary act, The Art of the Common Place, Wendell Berry, Whole-life Christian faith
By Mark Van Steenwyk on 01/19/2010
I believe one ethical way forward is to reboot our relationship with our food. Besides growing one’s own food, an ethical consumer can limit their consumption to their local region. Buy local produce during the harvest seasons, learn to can some food, dry some food, freeze other food.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged Christian faith and food, christian locavores, ethics of eating, food and Empire, food ethics, food preservation, globalization, JesusManifesto.com, local food movement, locavore, Mark Van Steenwyk, profood, slowfood, Sustainable Agriculture
![The Work of Local Culture [excerpt]](http://sustainabletraditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wendell-berry-grass-150x150.jpg)
By Wendell Berry on 12/11/2009
I know that one resurrected rural community would be more convincing and more encouraging than all programs of the last fifty years, and I think that it could be the beginning of the renewal of our country, for the renewal of rural communities ultimately implies the renewal of urban ones.
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Money & Economics | Tagged Community, community renewal, E.F. Schumacher Society, local culture, localism, rural renewal, Wendell Berry
![Food, Inc. [Movie Review]](http://sustainabletraditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/movie_poster-large-150x150.jpg)
By Julie Clawson on 07/10/2009
I recently headed out to a sold-out showing of the documentary Food, Inc. at Austin’s own Alamo Drafthouse. Generally, getting dinner and drinks along with my movie is my favorite “night out” activity, but in watching a film which critically examines our industrial food system, it was a bit strange.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, Food Inc, Joel Salatin, julie clawson, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture
By Zachary Adam Cohen on 07/10/2009
Where are the conservatives who want to conserve the environment? Where are the church groups unwilling to participate in a system where factory farming of livestock is a reality?
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged book, Crunch Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture, crunchy cons, food politics, local food movement, rod dreher, Sustainable Agriculture
By Sara Cardinale on 07/06/2009
What is our food culture as a whole in this country? There are stories of corporate greed, polluted environments, mad cow disease, salmonella outbreaks, genetically modified organisms, and bankrupt farmers by the hour….”it’s not enought to say NO to what we don’t like-we must say YES to the good, ” according to Salatin.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Topics | Tagged Joel Salatin, local food, michael pollan, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture, the omnivore's dilemma
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