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Sarasota News
LIZETTE ALVAREZ (The New York Times — May 9, 2013)

Florida’s citrus industry is grappling with the most serious threat in its history: a bacterial disease with no cure that has infected all 32 of the state’s citrus-growing counties. Read More »

Carol J. Darling (West Coast Woman — May 2013)

A fifth generation resident of Manatee County, Shelby runs King Family Farm with her husband, Ben. The farm grows vegetables such as purple carrots, fennel, eggplant, peppers, heirloom tomatoes, celery, herbs, greens, beets, kohlrabi, and cabbage. They also have 20 acres of blueberries and 10 acres of peaches along with livestock, sheep, and horses. Read More »

John Rehill (Bradenton Herald — March 28, 2013)

With a slim vote of 4-to-3, Manatee County commissioners will now ask staff to prepare an ordinance that will allow residents to keep chickens in their backyard. Read More »

Tyler Whitson (Sarasota News Leader — April 5, 2013)

Third annual Eat Local Week encourages community members to buy local food, invest in local farms and businesses. Read More »

EMMA KANTROWITZ (Bradenton Herald — April 5, 2013)

While the rest of his classmates were stuck in school Thursday, Emilio Vega, 11, planted bread wheat seeds with first lady Michelle Obama in her garden on the South Lawn of the White House Read More »

Tom Nordlie (University of Florida News — March 25, 2013)

The study was based on a statewide consumer survey. Prior estimates from other states had local food accounting for about 5 percent of all food sales. Read More »

Cooper Levey-Baker (Ticket Sarasota — March 22, 2013)

When Woody Tasch went on tour to promote his book, Inquiries Into the Nature of "Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered," he had no idea his collection of musings on how to spark investment in local agriculture would turn into a movement. Read More »

(Bradenton Herald — March 16, 2013)

Backyard coops may be springing up around Manatee County soon thanks to the Manatee chapter of Citizens Lobbying for Urban Chicken Keeping. Read More »

Jessie Van Berkel (Herald-Tribune — March 8, 2013)

Gonzalo is one of about 100 people marching along U.S. 41 from Fort Myers to Lakeland. The group is celebrating the rights farmworkers secured. They are also protesting Publix. Read More »

Cooper Levey-Baker (Ticket Sarasota — March 4, 2013)

When I set out to put together a comprehensive guide to all of our markets, my list just wouldn't stop growing. Whenever I would chat with a vendor, I'd learn about a market I had no idea existed. Read More »

Global News
GOSIA WOZNIACKA (Newser — June 22, 2013)
 “The new agriculture is about story-based farming. It cares about the community, the farmworkers and the environment,” farmer David Mas Masumoto says.
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Lori Rotenberk (Grist — June 3, 2013)
 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service reported last month that the number of woman-operated farms more than doubled between 1982 and 2007.
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Sammy Medina (Fast Company — June 20, 2013)
 A Whole Foods store in Rhode Island made it crystal clear to customers how their favorite fruits and vegetables depend on bees.
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Lester Brown (Treehugger — June 12, 2013)
 More than just a crossing of lines, these trends illustrate the latest stage in a historic shift in food production—a shift that at its core is a story of natural limits.
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Kristina Sepetys (Edible East Bay — Summer 2013)
 In Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Pollan turns his journalist’s sensibility and straightforward, thoughtful analysis to how we transform plants and animals into meals and why cooking matters.
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KELSEY GEE (The Wall Street Journal — May 24, 2013)
 Scores of small farmers and food activists have descended on this tiny town for the trial of farmer Vernon Hershberger, who faces up to a year in prison after selling a raw version of this state’s signature product: milk.
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ANNE RAVER (The New York Times — May 15, 2013)
 “People are attracted to the way of working with animals, of being back in touch with nature, of regaining a kind of rhythmic elegance to our lives.”
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Claire Thompson (Grist — May 13, 2013)
 In a blow to opponents of GMOs and Monsanto, the Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that an Indiana soybean farmer violated the company’s patent by saving its trademark Roundup Ready seeds.
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Lori Rotenberk (Grist — May 2, 2013)
 Chicago Grown and efforts like it are a natural next step for the “buy local” campaigns started in the ’90s.
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JULIA MOSKIN (The New York Times — May 7, 2013)
 Until recently, the American food revolution seemed to bypass this region, leaping from Chicago to Philadelphia without making stops in places like Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and Pittsburgh.
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