Gillings Sustainable Agriculture Project

05/24/2010

Weekend of Food Happenings! www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

05/10/2010

Read about Triangle University Food Studies www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

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04/28/2010

What difference does a few pennies make? A picture of what incremental healthy foods become accessible at different federal school lunch reimbursement rate levels.http://www.slowfoodusa.org/downloads/RF_FewCents_pdf.pdf

04/22/2010

Tune into The State of Things: WUNC, 91.5 FM, today at noon for a discussion of the the local organic food economy in North Carolina. The panel will be talking about this weekend’s Piedmont Farm Tour, and the dangers in the current federal food safety bills for healthy, local food systems.

03/29/2010

What is all this buzz surrounding Jamie Oliver? Read about it here: www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

Many people who are involved in local food system reform also subscribe to the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Food Policy Comfood listserve. So when the well-known British chef, ...

03/16/2010

The Tarheel Guide to Restaurants and Caterers Using Local Food has been released! Check out the story behind it which also links to the guide itself. http://www.hpdp.unc.edu/news/localfoodscateringguide

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03/12/2010

North Carolina ranks as the number one state for antibiotic use in livestock feed! Read about it here: www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

02/12/2010

Aren't you curious about the first meeting of the NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council? Read about it here: www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

Last Tuesday, the newly established North Carolina Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council held its first meeting. There are twenty-six seats on the statewide council, twenty-four of these appointees were ...

02/08/2010

Click on the link below to read an article about the project in the current issue of The Carolina Alumni Review. At least ten UNC alumni have been involved with research! https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9jc7F38N5H_YzU5MzBhMTAtNmZhYi00N2Q4LTg0OWYtNzRjMzg4ZDUxY2Zm&hl=en
Posted with the permission of Kathleen Kearns (www.kathleenkearns.com) and of the Carolina Alumni Review (http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=89).

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01/26/2010

Read about community food security on the blog. www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

01/11/2010

It's cold outside and the holidays are over...anyone else a bit down? Spice up your life with a trip to Angelina's Kitchen in Pittsboro where hot, delicious, local food abounds. Read more here: www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com and http://www.angelinaskitchenonline.com/

01/04/2010

Interested in learning more about the specifics of the project? The new blog post, which outlines all the major aims behind the project, will give you a better idea of what the project entails. www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

12/08/2009

Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. Alice Ammerman, will be on NC NOW airing tonight at 7:30 on WUNC. The story is part of a documentary series focused on environmental heroes produced and written by UNC Medical Journalism students. Tonight’s story profiles a couple working to create a sustainable farm and focuses on local food. http://www.unctv.org/ncnow/

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11/23/2009

What's going on with sustainable farming in eastern North Carolina? Go to www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com to find out!

We all piled on the bus, throwing our coats, still chilly from outside, down next to us. Some of us chatted with a new acquaintance, excited about the places we had seen that day. I suddenly felt like I was in elementary school once again, coming back from a field trip to the zoo. ...

11/02/2009

2009 Sustainable Agriculture Leader, Will Allen, is coming to North Carolina to speak about all the great work he is doing. Read about it here: www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

10/09/2009

Read about the new Politics of Food course being offered to both UNC and Duke students through this project! www.gillingsproject.wordpress.com

09/28/2009

How could health care reform affect what we eat? Michael Pollan has something to say about it. Click on the link below to read his recent opinion piece in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?sq=michael%20pollan%20%20%20op%20ed&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1253808435-fMTVFozDEXyvu7sar/V/3w

The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.

09/02/2009

Check out this video detailing the story behind the new White House garden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpEr3kfWjc
Also, take a look at the new blog entry all about gardens!

First Lady Michelle Obama and White House chef Sam Kass tell the story of the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. This new garden was planted ...