Comments on: A New Beginning for Farm to Table

By: Sherree Ross

Sherree Ross — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:48:43 +0000

Hi! Love your plans! I’m a Holistic Nutritionist and herbalist. I work with clients to teach then to eat local, organic, and sustainable to improve their health. I teach classes, on a variety of subjects, including cooking classes and, kid’s classes. I’ve had a CSA for years and buy a large percentage of my meat and dairy from local farmers. I regularly send people to the food circle and local sources on my examiner.com page. Please let me know if I can help or what type of articles I can provide.

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Farm to Table Status Report — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:05:22 +0000

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By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:47:01 +0000

Hi Khaled, I’m excited to hear about the plans you have for Farm to Table and would love to contribute. I’m a real-foods enthusiast, CSA-member, culinary student/professional cook and also run a buying club with a grass-fed, organic farm providing their products to my community. I’m particularly interested in helping people find ways to access and incorporate more real, sustainable foods into their diets and the nutrition/health repercussions of a real foods diet versus an industrialized diet. I used to blog a bit on local, sustainable food (mostly recipes driven by my CSA deliveries) but haven’t been keeping up with it since starting school. I’d love to get back into writing and further involved in the farm-to-table movement, though, so please let me know if I can be of help!

By: Lynda Lorenz

Lynda Lorenz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:58:54 +0000

I’m by no means into the food scene to the depth of most of the others on the blog, however I am a huge believer in eating/providing as much garden fresh, home or locally grown food as is available and educating those who don’t realize the difference it makes. So if there is anyway I can help (and learn by doing) with the Farm Dinner section of the site, I would gladly do so. I think it would be fun and very helpful on many levels.

I don’t do much public writing except on my own website for the historic site that I manage, so I’m curious what the difference is between the three roles you commented on in your reply.

My experience with managing this historic site is restoring it back to a working home and farmstead. We tap maple trees and cook syrup, squeeze sorghum cane for making molasses, grow broomcorn to make brooms, raise a garden, have a flock of chickens, we plan to incorporate demonstration plots for farming with horses and we bake in a outdoor brick oven. Our main goal is to educate our visitors about how the immigrants who settled here in 1839 survived and then to educate them about the food chain. Where does it start? We show just the real basics; where do we get eggs or milk? How do vegetables grow? What did they season their food with? Etc, etc.

So now that you know all this, how can I help and where do I fit?

By: Khaled Allen

Khaled Allen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:53 +0000

@Joan Brett: We’d love to get in touch with you about getting involved with Farm to Table. We are looking for more people to help run things, and contacts in the sustainable food world are a big plus as we’ll need lots of contributors. I’ll send you our plan

@Jess: We are looking for writers both to create original Farm to Table-specific content as well as established bloggers who can write on their chosen topics or post their articles on our site in exchange for links and traffic. I like your blog and your writing voice. Let me know if there’s any topic you’d like to write about for Farm to Table.

@Ariadna: We are definitely planning to incorporate more mediums of engaging, including TV and radio if we can figure out how to integrate it all.

@Esperanza: I love your blog! The article I read covered both political issues and provided a great recipe. We are looking for regular writers on both topics, so if you’d be interested let me know.

@Sasha: Please feel free to link to us. We’re in the process of changing a lot around here, so keep in mind that our domain name may change in the coming weeks (we’ll keep everyone posted). Thanks for your support.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:02:56 +0000

I really enjoyed your site and would like to link to it on my own (16 writer) food& cooking blog. This site has the best coverage of issues re: sustainability and the farm to table approach which is one of the (several) areas I like to explore in my own cooking in Brooklyn. Great job and keep up the good work.
.-= Sasha´s last blog ..Matt’s Kitchen: Cooking With Kids – "Wacky Cake" =-.

By: Esperanza

Esperanza — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:33:36 +0000

Hi,
I’ve been following Farm to Table for several months, and am really happy that the site will continue to head in this direction. Let me know if I can help in any way.
.-= Esperanza´s last blog ..What Is a Food Citizen? and Black-Eyed Pea & Kale Soup with Lemon & Sage =-.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:12:13 +0000

Great, so glad its coming back. I’m reading Jerry Saltz’s Facebook rant about young critics starting their own online art magazine–which 1) could change art criticism and 2) would benefit from actually being EDITED. Funny seeing ZAC’s comments in there.

I think Farm to Table should have diverse content streams–plugging into video, radio etc. Lots of different ways to engage.
.-= Adriana´s last blog ..Summer berries enrobed in winter =-.

By: Jess @OpenlyBalanced

Jess @OpenlyBalanced — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:44:28 +0000

I am glad to see that Farm to Table will be continuing and expanding in the future. I am a recent subscriber and think it has the potential to be an even more incredible resource than it already is.

I would love to contribute/help in any way possible. I blog on sustainability issues (including food) from a similar standpoint that you do – the balance between personal choice, healthy communities, and environmental impact. Please let me know if I can be of any help!

From a super easy technical standpoint, it would be great to see a subscribe to comments feature on the blog to facilitate following ongoing discussions .
.-= Jess @OpenlyBalanced´s last blog ..Transition: An Introduction =-.

By: Joan Brett

Joan Brett — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:42:31 +0000

I have just read about your blog, and am very interested in participating. I am the founder and CEO of Culinary School of the Rockies in Boulder Colorado. We have the only culinary school in the nation with a month long off campus farm to table program for our students. They work on farms, witness animal processing, put on farm dinners and apprentice in restaurants whose chefs buy directly from farmers. This program occurs twice a year and began in September 2008. Our graduates are uniquely suited to bring this passion for local, organic and sustainable cooking where ever their careers take them. Joan Brett