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Category: Closing the Food Gap
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By Mark Winne Daily Table photos: Christian Coleman There’s a new kid in town, who, like the new kid before him and the kid before her, is stirring things up. He’s saying things differently than those who preceded him, and his new ideas are making some people feel a little uncomfortable. In the parlance of…
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Mark Winne is the author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty and Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture. From 1979 to 2003, Winne was the Executive Director of the Hartford Food System, a private non-profit agency that works on food and hunger issues…
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Mark Winne calls for the nutmeg state to lead the way in food labeling.
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By Mark Winne This post originally appeared on his blog at MarkWinne.com. I’ll never forget the look on the desk sergeant’s face as he gazed down at me from the heights of his dark-paneled police podium. Before him was a neatly dressed, wavy-haired 18-year old cradling something seemingly as long as baseball bats wrapped in…
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Mark Winne looks at the House GOP plan to balance the budget at the expense of the poor.
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Beacon editor Alexis Rizzuto is trying hay-bale gardening and reflecting on earlier generations of gardeners in her family.
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Mark Winne looks at encouraging signs that we are making progress toward closing some of the biggest gaps in our food system.
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Black farmers have been left out of the growing ranks of organic farming, but a group has formed to help change that in the American southeast.
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