Dr. Prasanta Kalita, Director of the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss, will be conducting a Coursera course in Global Postharvest Loss Prevention The course is free of charge, and there is no textbook. Topics will include postharvest loss and its causes, actors, and solutions. You can register and find more information about the course […]
Category: Tools
The State of Food Waste: Gleaning, and Other Ways to Help
After interviewing Jack Paxton for my last article, I had the same thought I know many others have had: “Wow. Maybe I should start thinking more about what I throw away. But how?” I went looking for solutions, maybe to tag them onto the end of the article, but felt like they merited their own piece, and so […]
WEBINAR: “Evaluation for Transformation”: A Cross-Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm to School
“Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross-Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm to School” provides common language for defining farm to school core and supplemental elements, guidance on program articulation, a comprehensive literature review of farm to school and farm to preschool outcomes, priority outcomes, indicators and measures for the four sectors of public health, community economic development, […]
Application Open for “Preparing a New Generation of Illinois Fruit and Vegetable Farmers”
Aspiring Illinois farmers, new growers with less than five years’ experience, commodity farmers interested in diversifying to include fruit or vegetable production, and high school and community college agriculture teachers are invited to apply now for the next session of a free training program offered through the University of Illinois crop sciences department.
Thoughts from “Growing Cities”
Last night, the Prosperity Gardens held a fundraiser at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, with refreshments, t-shirts, the first public appearance of their new bus (still without a name, but I hear that they’re taking suggestions), and a screening of the new documentary “Growing Cities,” about the current state of urban agriculture in the United […]
Check Out the Food Environment Atlas
New from our friends at the United States Department of Agriculture is the Food Environment Atlas, a very interesting tool that allows the comparison of dozens of variables, such as the availability of farmers markets, the rate of diabetes and even the price of milk on as detailed as a county-by-county level. Not only is […]
Cover Crop Selector Tool for Vegetable Crops
Check out the new Cover Crop Selector Tool for Vegetable Crops that was developed by Michigan growers. It is the newest of the cover crop decision tools offered by the Midwest Cover Crop Council. These selector tools use local climate data and user input to assist farmers in selecting cover crops to include in […]