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  Bon Appétit Management Company Launches Student Garden Guide (02:58)
  by: 3BLMedia

  Bon Appétit Management Company is taking action to help student farmers launch careers in sustainable agriculture. Bon Appétit has  (More)Bon Appétit Management Company is taking action to help student farmers launch careers in sustainable agriculture. Bon Appétit has developed a guide for aspiring student farmers to help them build good business relationships with their best potential customers—the college food service providers that are right in their backyards. The guide will be made available to students in garden groups all over the country and on the company’s website. www.circleofresponsibility.com/student-garden-guide Students who learn to farm can make both an immediate and a long-term contribution to American food security. Small, independently-operated farms are the backbone to a sustainable food system and they are in peril. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 1% of the population of the United States is involved in farming, compared to 40% at the turn of the 20th century. This number promises to dwindle as existing farmers retire (more than 40% are 55 or older). It’s not as if young people aren’t interested in farming. Students are flocking to farm internships. And with the rise in the Real Food movement, colleges are the ideal place to begin a new agricultural revolution. (Less)

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  Food, Inc Trailer (02:15)
  by: TakePart

  http://www.takepart.com/foodinc In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly  (More)http://www.takepart.com/foodinc In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coliâ��the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprisingâ��and often shocking truthsâ��about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.  (Less)

  Added: 2 years ago Views: 790 Comments: 0

  

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  Brighter Planet goes to Twig Farm (01:26)
  by: Brighter Planet

  The whole Brighter Planet posse goes to Twig Farm in West Cornwall, VT to learn about locally made goat cheese. It was a delicious  (More)The whole Brighter Planet posse goes to Twig Farm in West Cornwall, VT to learn about locally made goat cheese. It was a delicious experience. (Less)

  Added: 3 years ago Views: 790 Comments: 0