Food Fund Friday – Drive Change NYC, Food Trucks with a Conscience
“Locally sourced food with a side of social justice” is the tagline for Drive Change, a “soon-to-be nonprofit” food truck business based in New York City. In addition to providing food for customers,...
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Food Fund Friday – Open-Source HAACP Program
Under current state and federal laws, food growers and manufacturers must have Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points or HACCP plans in place as a preventative measure against foodborne illness...
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Food Fund Friday – A Sustainable Fish Store in Brooklyn
If you’re not regularly consulting your pocket-size Monterey Bay Aquarium Watch List, knowing what types of fish you should eat is hard. Finding those fish – often not regularly stocked at your local...
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Food Fund Friday – An Educational Series to Teach You How Things Grow
Most would agree that it’s important to teach kids about food – both so they have a diverse and nutritious diet growing up and so they can be healthier adults. Yet many “grownups” don’t have all the...
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Food Fund Friday – DIY Infused Alcohol
In a blind taste test, you might be able to name vodka, gin, absinthe, whiskey, and scotch – but do you really know what makes these spirits different? Though much of it has to do with distillation,...
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Kickstart Chicago’s First Mushroom Cultivation Lab
This week’s Food Fund Friday features a project that’s hoping to grow mushrooms in urban Chicago. Mushrooms, unlike other fruits and vegetables, don’t grow so well from seed. Most farmers rely on...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – The Fishermen of California
The documentary Of The Sea, directed by Mischa Hedges, is a film about the fishermen of California. Over five months, the team has travelled along California’s coast collecting stories of fishermen,...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – Cooking with Granny
In 2012, multimedia journalist Caroline Shin decided it was time to pay the grandmas of the world back. “Our grandmas have silently whipped up dishes in the kitchen – not for money, not for fame, but...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – Promoting Local Farms with Sticker Scavenger Hunts
Stick to Local Food is a project to promote farms in the Rondout Valley of New York State. Organized by Maria Reidelbach, it’s a group effort by twenty-one farms in the area. Using a scavenger hunt...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – African Americans in the Presidents’ Kitchens
In one of the most exciting projects we’ve featured on Food Fund Friday, Adrian Miller aka. “The Soul Food Scholar” is raising money to create a documentary about the African-Americans who have worked...
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Food Fund Friday – Education and Nutrition for SF Youth
Moving out to the West Coast for this week’s Food Fund Friday, San Francisco-based Urban Sprouts is trying to raise funds to continue working at the Mission Community Market. Every Thursday, you can...
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Food Fund Friday – Investigative Ag Journalism With Drones
Will Potter, author of the excellent book Green is the New Red, has often focused his work on animal rights and the environment. Following his book about the heightened rate of prosecution and...
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Food Fund Friday – The Tales of 2 Urban Farms
This week’s Food Fund Friday is highlighting not one but two projects looking for some Kickstarter love. Though they’re both urban farms and both based in Brooklyn, they’re taking very different...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – Bring Growing Cities to PBS
Growing Cities is an hour-long documentary about the urban farm movement popping up across the nation. I was lucky enough to watch a screener of the film which manages to cover a wide range of what...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday: The Story of American Craft Beer
Beer lovers unite! As the craft beer industry has exploded in popularity, so has the tension between the smallest breweries and big beer companies trying to get in on the game. How big can craft beer...
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The Oyster War: Shellfish and Controversy California-Style
According to an article in SFGate, the sound of bagpipes filled the air on July 31, 2014 – the final day of business for Drakes Bay Oyster Company. In most cases, people don’t know more about their...
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This is the Technology Small Farms Have Been Waiting For
Farm equipment is expensive. Large tractors, combines, and sprayers cost anywhere from $20,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The only farmers who can feasibly work that kind of expense into...
View ArticleWhat We Talk About When We Talk About James Beard
America’s First Foodie is an upcoming documentary that tells the story of James Beard’s impact on the culinary world. Today, the James Beard awards are the height of culinary or food-media achievement....
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Food Fund Friday – Can The Kitchen Safe Build Character?
Self control is not a skill all of us have, especially when it comes to eating. The United States diet industry brings in $20-50 billion a year depending on who you’re asking. But out of everyone who...
View ArticleFood Fund Friday – Fishing for the Future
Brendan Smith, owner of the Thimble Island Oyster Company in the Long Island Sound, would tell you seaweed isn’t just for wrapping sushi. After ten years in the oyster business, he is now looking for a...
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