Food Insecurity Archives - Public Seminar

Local small farms offer an ideal of food production, but only industrial agriculture can meet modern needs

When I think about farming, I imagine the simple farming my Filipino great-grandfather did, and that students at my alma mater, Amherst College, still do at the Book & Plow Farm, an organic operation that employs students part time and supplies the college dining hall. Many consider this an ideal form ...

Capitalism

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City

What foraging can teach Americans about solving national food insecurity

September 27, 2023 • by Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Mattingly’s Swale came before the foraging boom, but it suggests that foraging may hold a permanent place in New York. Foraging is not just another fashionable affectation, but a path to addressing the deep-rooted issues embedded in our current food systems. Swale represents how our understanding of food access is ...