Posts Tagged ‘food’

6 Jan

Speakers Sought for Chicago’s Good Food Festival

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Are you an expert bee-keeper? A master preserver? A composting guru? We want to hear from you! FamilyFarmed.org in partnership with Advocates for Urban Agriculture, the Chicago Botanic Garden, Edible Alchemy, and Faith’s Farm, are seeking speakers for micro-workshops to be presented on the Good Food Commons at the 10th Annual Good Food Festival & Conference on Saturday, March 15, 2014

We had over 70 sessions last year, and we’re open to hearing any and all of your ideas! You can learn more here: http://goodfoodfestivals.com/blog/chicago/present-a-session-at-the-good-food-commons/

Lily Baker

708.763.9920
Save the Date!
10th Annual Good Food Festival & Conference
March 13th-15th, 2014
UIC Forum, Chicago, IL

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For more urban agriculture news, information and opportunities, visit AUA at http://auachicago.org/

Applications are due Wednesday January 15th, so now’s the time to apply!

 

 

 

25 Jan

Chicken Digestion 101

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Did you ever wonder how your chicken “chews” food without teeth, or what the path is that food follows through the body? Check out this helpful post on chicken digestion.

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5 Sep

8 September, 2012: Food Ethics Presentation at Stickney Public Library

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Saturday, September 8 at 12 pm
Stickney Forest View Public Library
6800 W. 43rd, Stickney, 60402
Learn about the basics of food ethics in the 21st Century and what it means for you and your family. Jen Murtoff will give a presentation followed by a Q & A session. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact Adult Services (708) 749-1050 ext. 120.

12 Mar

Local Foods Conference in Rockford, March 17

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Join the University of Illinois Extension for the Openfields conference, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17 at the Atwood Center in Rockford. Home to Roost will provide the keynote address.

For more information on this event, click here. 

 

29 Feb

From the Mouth of Babes: Birke Baehr on Organic Farming

Posted by chickenwoman in Local food. Tagged: , , , , , , , .


Check out this TEDTalk from an 11-year-old aspiring farmer!

This is very similar to the food ethics talk I give, but his talk is a little more brief!

28 Feb

Chick Stand to Keep Bedding Out of Water/Food

Posted by chickenwoman in Chicken care, Chicken stuff to buy. Tagged: , , , , , , , , .


For those of you getting chicks this spring, the chick stand could be a handy solution to the messy problem of chicks dragging poop and bedding into their food and water.

As suggested by Deborah Niemann, author of Homegrown and Handmade, as the birds get larger, people often hang the feeder/waterer or put it on blocks, but the same simple idea could be applied to prevent the birds from soiling their food and water.

7 Feb

Canadian Right to Food Trial

Posted by chickenwoman in Laws, Local food, Urban agriculture. Tagged: , , , , , , , , .


Piggybacking on my 1/26/2012 post, there is a legal argument over the right to local food in Calgary, which was sparked by backyard hens. Chickens are no longer a pivot point in the argument; it has now encompassed larger issues that involve municipalities determining what their residents consume. Read more here. 

12 Jan

FACT Funding Local Farmers

Posted by chickenwoman in Local food, poultry welfare. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , .


Food Act Concerns Trust has a  Healthy & Humane Farm Funds Project that will provide small grants, of up to $1500, to qualifying humane farmers who need assistance in improving the welfare of their farm animals. FACT will award grants for projects that (1) help farms transition to pasture-based systems, (2) improve the marketing of their humane products, or (3) more generally enrich the conditions in which farm animals are raised.

FACT’s Healthy & Humane Farm Funds Project is designed to empower farmers to positively impact farm animal welfare. Farmers often want to make on-farm changes to give their animals a better life, but sometimes need financial assistance to make it happen. FACT recognizes that farmers have the technical expertise to make farms more humane, and can effectively use small grants to make these changes.

To learn more, go to the Healthy & Humane Farm Funds Project webpage. That can be found here: http://www.humanefarmfunds.org/. The application and application guidelines can be found online. Deadline for applying is April 1, 2012.

Contact:

Lisa Isenhart
Humane Farming Program Manager
Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT)
773-525-4952

21 Sep

Make Your Voice Heard About Food in Cook County, IL

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If you are a Cook County resident, this is for you! It comes from the Cook County Food System Steering Committee.

YOUR voice is important. Please share this with others.

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This is a very exciting moment in Illinois and US food policy:   One of the most populous counties in the country is considering the creation of a food council, as well as specific food issues.

If you live OR work in Cook County, your input is greatly desired.    Below is an e-mail from the Cook County Department of Public Health, which is sponsoring this initiative.   Basically, you can do two things:
1.  Take a survey (deadline Sept. 29).
2.  Attend a public meeting on Oct. 6, 2011.  Pre-registration is absolutely required because space is limited.
Full details are below.
This is a great opportunity to make your voice heard about food production, food processing, food distribution, food retailing, food scrap management, and food systems and food policy in general.   There are spaces for your personal comments on each page.   Whatever you are most concerned about, please mention.

Do you live or work in Cook County, Illinois? If so, you are invited to complete a survey on how government laws, rules, ordinances, regulations and programs affect the way we eat, grow, transport, store, process, distribute, sell, or handle food or food waste.

 The survey results will be used to create recommendations on what issues a proposed Cook County food policy council will focus its efforts. The Cook County food policy council is anticipated to be an official committee that explores cross-agency and cross-jurisdictional food issues and makes recommendations to the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
To access the survey, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RJJTTSG
You may also answer this survey in Spanish by calling 708-633-8314 or e-mailing jbloyd@ccdph.net. Para contester esta encuesta en espanol, favor de llamar a 708-633-8314; o escriba a jbloyd@ccdph.net.
Please share this opportunity to provide input on the issues of importance related to food in Cook County by forwarding this email to others who live or work in Cook County.
To learn more about the survey or sign up to participate in developing recommendations based on the survey results, go to:http://www.cookcountypublichealth.org/healthy-communities/healthy-eating/food-system-survey
Made possible through funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) grant. CPPW is a joint project between the Cook County Department of Public Health and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago.