Mary Crimmins

You are all probably aware of how much I admire Michael Pollan. He is changing the face of local/organic food and conscious food consumption. I have an adorable stop-action video here to share that is animated with vegetables and comes from Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle at Brain Pickings. Love this! It took them 3 weeks [...]

Every five years, a new Farm Bill is passed that addresses agricultural issues including government subsides of farms, commodity crops, trade, food and nutrition programs, food safety, food prices, agricultural preservation, and livestock. The new bill comes up in 2012 and there is a lot of media attention happening around the corruption and secrecy of this bill, and how [...]

There are few things that inspire me the way that immersing myself into a book does. Being transported into another life, another place, and perhaps another time is magical. When is comes to eating locally, education is paramount. Books allow us the opportunity to see what is really going on in the food system, who is making [...]

One of the questions I received a while back was “I would love to know how to easily transition to a more healthy way of consuming local food. One thing at a time type things” from Christy Farr. I started to think about how I could break down the message of learning to eat locally. [...]