Author's Suggested
Resources
Author Tanya Marcovna Barnett shares
five of her top web sites to accompany this month’s Hot Topic.
Sites related to the “Remaking the
connections” section
Try growing some of your own food. Get started at this
organic gardening site.
Consider joining a “Community
Supported Agriculture” (CSA) farm. Check this site to learn more
about CSAs and to find a CSA farm near you.
Support your local farmers market. Here is the place to get
started to find a farmers market near you.
Need help locating specialized
retailers who focus on local, organic, and creation-friendly
products: co-ops, natural food stores, and produce stands? Use this
site to
find a natural food coop near you.
Need to
be more informed when shopping at supermarkets? This is the
place to help match your social and ecological standards with
correlative farming practices.
Some of her other favorites
Be a responsible shopper and discover “the good, the bad, and
the ugly” corporate players. Be better equipped to discern who you
wish to support with your food dollars.
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Consider replacing one beef meal each
week. Meat production greatly impacts creation.
Check out New American Dream and find a number of ways that you
can make a difference.
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You may want to consider joining with
others to
voice your concerns about the people, lands, and creatures
impacted by our current food system. The Union of Concerned
Scientists provides updated, easy-to-use “action alerts.”
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Tour
Earth Ministry’s site and check out their latest publication. Be
sure to
browse their ideas for congregations
More sites and items of interest
because “Knowledge is Power!”
A good starting place: Lots of
information, links and even a map to help you find
the “farm-freshest” produce near you.
Mothers and Others for a Livable
Planet give you their “Top 10 List of
Fruits and Vegetables to Buy Organic.”
“Flowers
for me? You shouldn’t have!” Unless, of course, they’re organic
and pesticide free.
Recent Lutheran Woman Today magazine articles of interest on
food/farming related issues
June 2003
“The Good Earth: Focus on Farming” — A two-part feature on farming
in the US and in El Salvador.
April 2004
“Striving for Success in the Healing of the World” — An honest look
at what really happens in factory farming and how some are choosing
another way.
Stay tuned later this summer to the
Lutheran Woman Today
web site for glimpses the June and July/August 2004 issues. Both
issues tackle the theme “All Creation is Longing: Our Environment,
Ourselves.” In addition to a great line up of authors and article
topics focusing on the theme, there is a three-part Bible study that
looks at our place in God’s creation.
While only a portion of the magazine content is available online, it
is easy to subscribe. Call 800-328-4648 or
subscribe on-line.
Farming the Lord’s Land: Christian Perspectives on American
Agriculture, by Charles P. Lutz (Augsburg Fortress Publishers,
1980)
The Contrary Farmer, by Gene
Logsdon (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1995)
The New Organic Grower: A Master’s
Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener,
by Eliot Coleman and Sheri Amsel (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1995)
Four Season Harvest: Organic
Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long, by Eliot Coleman
and Cathy Bray (Chelsea green Publishing, 1999)
Inspirational thoughts for even the brownest of thumbs.
Organic gardening tips, recipes for safe, homemade pesticides,
and a link to “The Organic Vegetable Gardening Guru.”
Simple, contained
herb gardens for beginners.
Learn how to “Make
the Most of Your Mulch” in your organic garden.
Farms of Tomorrow Revisited:
Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities, by Steven
McFadden and Traugher M. Groh (Bio-Dynamic Farming and Garden
Association, 1998)
Sharing the Harvest, by
Elizabeth Henderson, John D. Gussow, And Robyn Van En (Chelsea Green
Publishing, 1999)
Presbyterian Hunger Program: Give yourself time to peruse this
extensive site, especially the Food and Faith section.
Agriculture and Theology Project: Networking for Biblically
Transformed
Agriculture. Accessible articles, current world reports, and ongoing
discussion about Christian responsibility to the land.
“Community
Supported Agriculture: Putting the Culture back in Agriculture.”
Interview with Dan Wiens, who brought the concept of CSAs from
Africa to North America 20 years ago.
“Saving
Family Farms in the U.S.” Oxfam article pits family farms
against “megafarms.”
The ELCA has a bushelful of information about GMOs and other issues
related to food. You may wish to start at the Division for Church in
Society page and then surf around for other
world hunger and rural-related
information. Find out more about how the ELCA is addressing
these faith-in-life issues.
Union of Concerned Scientists offers
a scholarly and even-handed discussion of biotechnology and
Genetically Modified Organisms. Take some time to read a brief
history of biotechnology, its risks and benefits, and biotech in
the news today. This is also a great source for info on Sustainable
Agriculture and other alternatives to genetic engineering.
“ ‘Biotechnology Will Feed the World’
and Other Myths.”
Vegetarian website attempts to debunk GMO “hype.”
GMO-related printed publications
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, by
Vandana Shiva (South End Press, 1999)
Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big
Money, and the Future of Food, by Daniel Charles (Perseus
Publishing, 2002)
Dinner at the New Gene Café: How
Genetic Engineering is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the
Global Politics of Food, by Bill Lambrecht (Thomas Dunne Books,
2001)
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms: Travel and volunteer
on organic farms all over the world.
The Hunger Site and
The Rainforest Site: Click a button once a day, and site
sponsors will donate a cup of rice to hungry people, or donate money
towards an acre of rainforest.
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