If the patents are granted, these companies that already dominate biotech seed would control most of the “climate-related gene families submitted to patent offices worldwide,”

I’m leaving town next week for a while and have been squirreling these away, but winter is definitely over. So here is a Smörgåsbord for Food and Faith blog readers. Eat up. Ice cream crisis as bees buzz off The…

Even though I have a small garden of my own to tend to, Saturday morning found me thinning carrot seedlings along a 30 foot row at a local, volunteer-led garden called Harvest for the Hungry. Now in its 20th year,…

Urban harvesting in Louisville is especially fruitful in spring. Haeja asked the tree guys for some of the stumps from the maple they were felling and pulverizing down the block. She wants them for a sand box she plans to…

“In this sense,” Deffenbaugh tells us, “eating locally is one of the most political activities that we can engage in on a daily basis.”

In April 2007 when Food and Faith Blog was born, we asked the question: Why are the bees dying? A year later, some answers are emerging. Following the mass deaths of bees and other insects in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg,…

Mark Winne, a food justice activist, author, and former director of the Hartford Food System (a grantee of the Presbyterian Hunger Program) helps change the angle from which we view the high food price issue and focus on the importance…

When I woke up this Sunday morning (day three of the fast), my heart was still pounding. So I thought I would drink some organic grape juice, but didn’t have any in the house. I didn’t know when Rainbow Blossoms…

I’ve gone without the last six meals as part of a fast that about 40 people we know about are participating in. Many are PC(USA) staff who are trying to discern ways to respond to the Global Food Crisis; others…

Thanks to friends in the sustainable ag world for the list below of films on the ever-popular topic of food. There are some additional ones on the Presbyterian’s Food and Faith site. Plus, at the bottom of this post are…