By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Doctors at three Massachusetts medical centers are writing “prescriptions” for free fruits and vegetables at local farmers markets. Clinicians look for families of overweight and obese children enrolled in the centers’ exercise and nutrition program that can’t afford and lack access to fresh produce. Whole families are enrolled; the main requirement [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Childhood obesity, Farmers Markets, Nutrition | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Agricultural pesticides, long suspected of being especially harmful to children, are receiving additional scrutiny, thanks to three recent studies. And – no surprise here – children who live in agricultural areas turn out to be particularly vulnerable. Scientists are cautious in their conclusions, awaiting results of further testing. But two classes [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Buy Local, Farmers Markets, Food Safety | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson A year or so from now, Massachusetts farmers, cheese makers, bakers, and others out to please the palates of locals and tourists alike will have a new outlet for their products. After years of talks, debates, and the occasional argument, the non-profit Boston Public Market Association has nailed down a pledge [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Farmers Markets | 1 Comment »
Posted by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Jill Richardson, who blogs at La Vida Locavore, is getting to be one of my favorite writers and thinkers about matters agricultural. Here is the first part of her latest article on Alternet. This is one of those pieces I wish I’d written — and that’s the highest praise one [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Genetically modified foods | 1 Comment »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson When a movie begins with a couple identified on screen as “Mr. and Mrs. Fox” and they’re talking about their factory chicken-raising operation, you know you’re in for something a bit different. The movie is “Fresh,” an upbeat, often funny documentary film about what people are actually doing, and what more [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Farms & Farmers | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The past few nights Ed, my husband, and I have been watching a DVD called “The Crash Course.” The title’s double meaning is bitterly delicious. The DVD is a three-hour lecture by Chris Martenson on the interplay between what’s going on with the economy, energy, and the environment and how the [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Economic crisis: Global, Environmental disaster, Uncategorized | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson In Philadelphia’s steamy summers when I was a child, on Thursdays my mother would take me to the Reading Terminal Market, where she bought the week’s produce, eggs, and cheese from the Amish families from the area around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We rode a trolley car and the Market Street elevated train [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, EPA, Farms & Farmers, Social Justice | 1 Comment »
Reproduced in full from http://www.lavidalocavore.org Awesome New USDA Antitrust Rule on Meat Industry by: Jill Richardson Fri Jun 18, 2010 at 21:01:35 PM PDT The USDA has come out with a new proposed rule and – based on the reaction it has gotten thus far – it’s a big fucking deal. In a good way. [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, Farms & Farmers, USDA | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson In Philadelphia’s steamy summers when I was a child, on Thursdays my mother would take me to the Reading Terminal Market, where she bought the week’s produce, eggs, and cheese from the Amish families from the area around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We rode a trolley car and the Market Street elevated train [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Agriculture, EPA, Environment, Farms & Farmers, Social Justice, Water quality | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson When we moved in 1985 from the Massachusetts coast 100 miles west to our home in Tiny Town, it was an article of faith that you didn’t put in any seeds or frost-sensitive plants before Memorial Day Weekend, and you could expect a killing frost by September 15th. In the past [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Kitchen gardens | No Comments »
