Big Food at the Peabody

Learned of this Special Exhibit with ongoing events late -- but there is plenty more good stuff to experience.  BIG FOOD at Peabody Museum: our evolutionary history, our complex food environment, and the serious health consequences of obesity.

What is In Season, EarthDay at QU

New Video from QU Earth Day Event:  View Here.

EarthDay_at QU

 

Submitted by Kristen Richardson
Biology Department

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The Worst Farm Bill Ever?

Here is an article explaining the challenges:
https://www.freespeech.org/text/worst-farm-bill-ever

MIT Open Courseware Food & Culture Class Resources

Spring 2011) Explored connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal identities and social groups are formed via food production, preparation, and consumption. Organized around critical discussion of what makes "good" food good (healthy, authentic, ethical, etc.). Uses anthropological and literary classics as well as recent writing and films on the politics of food and agriculture.  You may be interested in the resource material.

What We Eat is the Solution

Betterfood4all is about leveraging what is already in process locally and being a catalyst for others to become the solution. So we encourage you to listen to the presenters at this TEDx conference Changing the Way We Eat. There is nothing more local than your table.

New CSA in Durham - Think Salad

Starlight Gardens spring-summer CSA will start on May 30 continue every week through October 25  for a total of 22 weeks. 54 Fowler Avenue in Durham. For 2012 CSA information go here.