Whether you’ll be growing food in a big backyard, a community garden plot, or in a small windowbox, now is the time to plan what you’ll grow this year.

An inspiring call from Lucinda Clark to the community to support family farms. These brave men and women are on the front lines of the profood movement, taking the risks so that we can build a sustainable food system.

Our first Friday Link Roundup includes stories on creative ways to get local fresh food to kids in Richmond, New York plans to create a sustainable food system, and information on ways to get involved, and much more.

Louise Ross offers advice on finding ethically-raised, traditionally farmed meat and offers a tasty recipe for Beef Rib Stew.

Rebecca Terk of Flying Tomato Farms shares her recipe for homemade bouillon.

The Future of Good Food Starts with Good Ideas: BK Farmyards from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.
One of the most important things we can do to support the sustainable food movement is to educate new generations, especially …

For me, the growing season doesn’t start when the glossy catalogs start coming (before Christmas now instead of after the first of the year) or even when the seed packets full of promise arrive in the mail. The real start of the season is when I mix that first batch of seed-starting medium.

New Orleans was full of excitement last week when The Saints came marching in after their Super Bowl victory, but four and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, there are approximately 70,000 vacant lots in New Orleans and nobody is celebrating that.

‘Tis the season for greens, greens, roots, and more greens. This week in our CSA box, we got a lovely bunch of beets, and I picked up several more pounds of them at the farm market too. There is something about the grey of winter that has me in the mood for pickled beets

On Wednesday, Jamie Oliver, the British celebrity chef and health advocate, won the 2010 TED Prize. Winners of this prize are asked to make one wish, and the TED organization provides $100,000 to the honorees, as well as help in fundraising and implementing that plan. TED looks for individuals who can inspire change among large groups of people, and previous winners have included Bill Clinton, Bono, and Bill Gates.