By Kurt Eulau

Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project: Food From the Ground up

By Emma Tome with photos by Jeannie Li

Lisa Stephens, ‘gardener in chief’ at Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project, can’t quite estimate just how much food the farm produces each week, nor how much food they sell. “It really depends on how many people are working on the farm,” she says, “In a good year, we’ll get up to four tons.”

by Loren Peabody

Food riots are currently on the rise across the globe, caused less by shortfalls in world food production than by the rising food prices that increased 45 percent in the past 9 months (July 2007 through March 2008), according to the FAO.

English translation of a graduation address to the ALBA Graduates of the Education Program for Small Farmers -- Salinas, California, April 5, 2008

By Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director, Food First

By Mulugeta L Handino, Field Researcher and Development Expert with Food First

A Local Revolution

by Ingrid Evjen-Elias

In the third installment of the Postcards from the Heartland series, Food First intern Ingrid Evjen-Elias chronicles what she learned during her 500-mile bike trip through the American Midwest about the troubles facing small farmers and their innovation.

Read Part I and Part II of the series.