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Lifestyle
Watch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize?
The federal food stamp program is about alleviating poverty, not discouraging obesity, so farmers' markets or fatty snacks are both fair game.
Lifestyle
Let's Make Sustainable Food Less Elitist
Sustainable food initiatives don't serve everyday Americans. Here's how to change that.
Lifestyle
Food Stamp Use at NYC Greenmarkets Doubled Last Year
Over the past couple of years, New York's City Council has spent $1.3 million equipping farmers' markets with machines that can process food...
Business
New Farmers Markets Provide Health, Jobs Boost
Going to a farmers market this weekend? Thanks! You're helping boost the American economy.
Culture
Check Out Brooklyn's Fresh New Shipping Container Radio Station
BBox is Brooklyn's upstart community radio station coming direct from a farmers' market. They're looking for fresh DJs and hosts.
Lifestyle
Can Highway Farmers' Markets Beat Rest Stop Food?
Along Massachusetts highways, local farmers offer an alternative to the Golden Arches.
Cities
GOOD Ideas for Cities: Making Local Farmers More Profitable
Many farmers are reporting that they are making less money than ever. How changing the way we buy local produce can ensure their profitability.
Design
How Design Can Help Farmers' Markets Feed a Growing Demand
A century ago, you probably wouldn't have spent your Saturday morning lugging local produce back from a farmers' market because chances were, like...
Lifestyle
Farmers' Markets Continue to Spread Like Wildfire (in a Good Way)
As of 2010, 6,132 farmers' markets exist nationwide—that's 16 percent growth since 2009, 214 percent since 2000. Grist
Lifestyle
Five L.A. Farmers' Markets Where the Produce Is as Pretty as the View
How about securing your strawberries on top of a mountain?Here are five lesser-known local farmers' markets that look as juicy as the citrus.
Lifestyle
Flora and Fauna
The philosophy of slow food is based on an understanding of the provenance of our food, and the appreciation of each individual ingredient in...
Lifestyle
Project: Foodstamps and Farmers' Markets
Help devise a system for using food stamps to buy better produce.We all can agree that fresh fruits and vegetables are an essential part of good...
Design
Project: Redesign Your Farmers' Market
How can better design ensure that food grown by local farmers is delivered and distributed to urban residents? A contest sponsored by GOOD, The...
Lifestyle
America's "Favorite Farmers Markets"
Speaking of farmers markets, the nonprofit American Farmland Trust recently held a poll to select "America's Favorite Farmers Markets." Nearly...
Design
LA's Farmers' Market Celebration Is Thursday, and the Deadline for Our Contest Is Tonight
Attention fans of fresh food and smart design: You have until tonight-11:59pm PST to be exact-to submit your idea for bringing locally-grown food...
Cities
The GOOD 100: Cities
The New American Dream During a decade when Americans returned to cities for the first time in 50 years, it surprises me that "urban" can still...
The Community Board
In Need of Information: List of Major Metropolitan Areas with Most Organic Local Produce Year Round
I am in the fortuitous situation to be able to move anywhere in the US and one of my main priorities is to live in a major metropolitan area...
Lifestyle
The President of Slow Food Nation
Since 1998, Slow Food USA, the American branch of the Slow Food organization, has spearheaded community organizing and national policy...
