“Ethical Markets recommends this “Foodprint” newsletter, covering many of the issues we also follow on reforming our global food system.
~Hazel Henderson, Editor“
It’s National Farmers’ Market Week, giving us the perfect excuse to celebrate farmers and the markets in our communities that bring us joy, delicious fresh produce, pasture-raised meat and eggs and lots of other perks including sustainably-grown flowers. Your farmers’ market is the perfect place to find the highest quality, most delicious food available right now.
To help you get the best that your market has to offer, we’ve got our Seasonal Food Guide to help you plan a menu before you shop; a list of our favorite farmers’ market cookbooks; and tips for stretching your farmers market dollar as far as it can go.
WHAT’S IN SEASON?José Andrés’ New Cookbook Is a Love Letter to
Vegetables
Wondering what to do with all of your beautiful farmers’ market produce? José Andrés has you covered. As chef of 30 plus restaurants and a political activist and humanitarian, Andrés could be too busy to help you eat your vegetables.
Thankfully, he made time to write “Vegetables Unleashed,” his newest cookbook that offers practical advice for adding more vegetables into your diet, whether it’s beet poke and tomato burgers or more straightforward recipes for flavorful, simple vegetable preparations.
How the Right to Farm Became the Right to Harm
When a factory farm moves into a community, the lives of its neighbors are turned upside down, including their quality of life, their health and their property values. And yet, their legal recourse is often hampered by Right to Farm laws, laws that were originally intended to protect farmers, but have been weaponized against rural communities.
A new documentary tells the story of these beleaguered communities and their fight against the large hog farms ruining their lives.