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15 February 2019

This week's selection of the best from Locavore
and our reading from around the web





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In Ethiopia, climate change leads herders to retrain as farmers
As droughts becomes harsher, killing animals, adding in vegetable farming – and other money makers – is paying off for pastoralists.




Any 'planetary diet' must also work for the poorest and most vulnerable

While there is little doubt that eating less red meat is good for your health, it is also important to recognise that for the poorest in society, meat and dairy products represent affordable sources of both calories and a range of micronutrients.





Seed Fund open for entries
On a mission to find the UK and Ireland’s future stars of food and drink, The Seed Fund has opened for entry, offering 12 places on its summer Academy run in partnership with Great Taste, the food awards. 





Regenerating forgotten urban places: 3000acres
Since 2014, 3000acres have been working to break down the barriers to urban agriculture in Melbourne, Australia.


More news & stories

events | offers | jobs | listings
 
 




Event: 4 Wild Seasons
22nd & 23rd February   7pm   £45pp 
4 Wild Seasons is taking over the kitchens at Seven Arts in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, to cook and serve you a menu that is local, seasonal, natural, and different. A five-course taste odyssey, featuring the harnessed yet untamed flavours of forest, field, and hedgerow, bringing you the very best in wild, seasonal, foraged flavours.





Event: Tree Identification Workshop
February 23rd   10am - 1pm   £15
Join ethnobotanist and professional wild food guide Joshua Quick for this tree identification workshop. The workshop will focus on how to identify many common tree species, as well as looking at modern and historical uses of trees throughout human history.


Job: Experienced Organic Grower, Fern Verrow
Fern Verrow has been producing certified biodynamic vegetables, fruit and flowers for the past twenty-two years. They are situated on the Wales/Herefordshire borders, at the foothills of The Black Mountains. They are looking for an experienced organic grower to work full time.


Job: Seed Officer, Heritage Seed Library
Garden Organics Heritage Seed Library aims to conserve vegetable varieties that are not widely available, and seed is made available through a membership scheme. They are currently looking for a part-time Seed Officer to join our friendly and dedicated Heritage Seed Library team. This is a permanent, part-time contract for 21 hours a week, based at Ryton Organic Gardens.


Directory: Real Economy, Bristol
Real Economy is a charitable community benefits society with a trading arm. We offer the community of Bristol an alternative way of buying their food.


 
what we're reading

Should we farm octopus?
via Anthropocene

A forest garden with 500 edible plants could lead to a sustainable future
via National Geographic

Farmers hope to break Argentina's economic drought
via Ozy


Canadian town continues to be cursed by smell of 17-year-old rotting seafood sauce
via Munchies

Look out, bone broth; mushroom broth might be even more magical
via Modern Farmer

EAT-Lancet says you can save the planet on its diet. I tried it for a week
via The New Food Economy


Buy organic to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists 
via The Guardian 

A structural bias harms women-led enterprises and the agrifood issues they are working to solve. We want to know what that costs us.
via The New Food Economy

Warning that climate change is putting chips under threat
via The National


Rice reveals African slaves’ agricultural heritage
via Sapiens

Ranching families on Cheyenne River Reservation face a choice: Staying in an industry they can’t keep up with or leaving the only life they’ve known
via The Washington Post

Objects of despair: fake meat
via The Paris Review


The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.
via Mongabay

The search for a perfect plant that could stop climate change
via Ozy

Climate change: heat waves and food insecurity weaken immune systems
via Food Matters Live


The murky ethics of the ugly-produce business
via The Atlantic
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