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Innovator Videos: 6 Ideas for the Future of Food
Food gets it’s fair share of bad press these days, and for good reason. Food+Tech Connect wants to help you explore new ideas for how information and technology can be used to change the status quo and accelerate food innovation
BAMCO’s Role in Making New Farm & Food Data Available
Bon Appétit Management Company, which operates cafés for companies including Twitter, Yahoo! and eBay, announced Tuesday the rollout of a comprehensive farm animal welfare policy that has the potential to make significantly more information about growing practices available. As an industry leader with significant purchasing power, these commitments set an important precedent for increased transparency through certification, and with it an opportunity to open up data that has been largely unavailable
Free Online Marketing for Farms Devastated by Storm Irene
FarmPlate.com is offering one year of free online marketing to farmers and small food-related businesses affected by Irene. Listing over 35,000 businesses across the country, FarmPlate aims to connect farmers, fishermen, foragers, food artisans, restaurants, markets, distributors and foodies.
FarmHack: Farmers and Designers Working Together
Farm Hack is a branch of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition that consists of blogs and events where people can share information and technological innovations in agriculture. This includes things like a better way to trellis tomatoes or information about creating a tool lending library
#IreneRecipes – Support East Coast Farmers Devastated by Irene
Studiofeast’s Mike Lee decided to have a little fun during the Hurricane lockdown, asking his twitter followers : “Tweet me your hurricane food items, I’ll tweet you back a recipe.” Lee put together a collection of the 140 character menus he conceived and writes, “Take a look, have a laugh, and if you enjoyed them, please consider for a moment to donate to the Red Cross to help with the recovery effort in places that were way less lucky than NYC.”
World Bank Open Agricultural Data Lacking
In early July I read in The New York Times that the World Bank is releasing 7,000 data sets into the public domain. So I decided to check it out and see what’s there. Not a lot, it turns out. When it comes to agricultural information – arguably the most important sector of the Bank’s
iTools: The iPhone Fab Four Free Apps for Urban Ag Enthusiasts and Local Eaters
I’m very excited about this week’s set of iPhone apps. With a tip of the hat to the Fab Five freshmen from the Michigan Wolverines back in the 90′s, I give you: the Fab Four free iPhone Apps for Urban Ag Enthusasts and Local Eaters. The apps reviewed below help you make better decisions about what kinds
Greenling’s Vision For the Future of Grocery Shopping
Meet Mason Arnold, Co-founder and CEO of Greenling, the first and largest fresh, organic and local grocery delivery service in Central Texas. Greenling is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing local food systems: distribution. They use technology to shorten the supply chain and make it easier for consumers to access fresh, local produce through the delivery of CSA-style boxes
Windowfarms for Classrooms: Crowdsourcing Curricula
“The creativity of the individual “farmer” is the critical component to better environmental stewardship and food system change. We want to get citizens, teachers and kids thinking of themselves as farmers, experimenters, pioneers as much as our forefathers did. Stewardship means designing smart plans for the specific needs of one’s community and environment and making
Video: January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare & Meatshare
January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare and Meatshare from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Food+Tech Meetup featured a conversation about developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities, moderated by Elizabeth Mcvay Greene. Matt Hatoun of Wholeshare and Melissa Mcewen of the Meatshare Meetup discussed how they are using
Rapping Farmers: A YouTube Success Story
This video of farmers rapping about organic dairy production was produced as an advertisement for organic dairy brand Yeo Valley. The video, which debuted in October, has been viewed approximately 1.6 million times to date. According to an article in The Grocer, the ad has helped Yeo Valley increase sales by almost £10m. Be sure
Why I Write About Food: Creating Community
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today? I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-site discussion hosted by Food Editor Nicola Twilley, in honor of the re-launch of GOOD magazine’s food section. It’s funny, in a million
Monetizing Food+Tech Connect
One glaring hole in the Food+Tech Business Model Canvas is, of course, revenue. The central issue for an online media platform (or any start-up business!) is how to monetize (ie, get paid for) the value of the content and underlying technology. Danielle and I met with Holley Atkinson last week to talk about this and
Miriam Simun On Human Cheese, Biotechnology, & Sustainable Food
Would you try a slice of human cheese? I’ve asked this question at a dinner of artists and sustainable food advocates, at dinner with my family, and in conversation with friends. There are the brave few who say they would be interested in trying, however, most people react in utter disgust [note to self: bringing
Food Sprout: Mapping The Food Supply Chain
Where does your food come from? The answer is more difficult than you might imagine. Thankfully, a growing number of tech savvy entrepreneurs are leveraging their Web2.0 acumen and the open government data movement to address the problem. Food Sprout is a new, data-driven website that is mapping the food supply chain to improve transparency about
