by David Gumpert | Sep 19, 2017 | What's New |
In the national struggle to legalize marijuana in more states, surprise opposition has come from a group you’d think would welcome the shift: illegal pot growers. Alas, many of these growers worry that legalizing pot will encourage more growers, leading to more supply...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2017 | What's New |
Some months after California nutritionist and food rights advocate Aajonus Vonderplanitz died three years ago in Thailand, I was hearing reports from a couple of his former associates that he had been sighted in the Los Angeles area. The individual they saw had had...
by David Gumpert | Sep 5, 2017 | What's New |
Almost from the inception of bitcoin eight years ago, food activist Liz Reitzig has been fascinated with the potential of cryptocurrency, especially with its potential to revolutionize local food distribution. “It enables small farms worldwide to bypass the corporate...
by David Gumpert | Aug 20, 2017 | What's New |
This post has been edited since it first went up, with material removed and added. The conclusion remains unchanged. A few months ago, I watched a new documentary in Hanover, NH, the home of Dartmouth College, about how scientists from its medical school helped launch...
by David Gumpert | Aug 11, 2017 | What's New |
At a memorial gathering in Connecticut for Ron Schmid last week at his farm home in Watertown, there were lots of fond remembrances by his friends, relatives, and former patients. But there was also lots of anger about the Green Pasture fermented cod liver oil that...
by David Gumpert | Aug 8, 2017 | What's New |
There’s a new foodie movie just out, and I have to admit, it really had me going. As in, “Maybe I should think seriously about shifting to a totally vegan diet.” A few friends and family had highly recommended the movie, “What the Health”. The fact that it’s been...
by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2017 | What's New |
The author, naturopath, and food rights activist Ron Schmid died unexpectedly last Thursday evening. He was 71, and died in his sleep at his farm in Connecticut, apparently of heart failure. Schmid was best known in the food community for his landmark 2003 book, The...
by David Gumpert | Jul 20, 2017 | What's New |
It’s been nearly seven years since I first met farmer Heather Retberg in Maine and learned about her crazy idea for restoring something called “Food Sovereignty” to the small coastal communities where she and her supporters lived. Over the years that followed, Retberg...
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