Long-Term Workable Pantry TOOLS.

by Grain | | Food Supply, Long Term Storage, nutrition, Organic Grains, Preparation, Preparation Action Step, Uncategorized

It all sounds nice and good to say ‘Build a Long-Term Workable Pantry” but if you don’t know where to get the tools to do so, it can be a bit frustrating. Our hope is to give you some realistic options to choose from. We’ve touched on how to go...

Irradiated Foods

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

In the UK, irradiated foods are already ‘available’ to the consumer. There is a difference, though, they are LABELED. They are labeled in the stores AND on the menus.  Now either the FDA thinks that Americans are stupid, or apathetic about their own health...

Markets are full of 'food' – so where is the crisis?

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

In an article found in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (7-8-08)  the two below paragraphs literally jumped out at me: The new famine is not about a crisis in global supply. Markets are full of food that developing-nation consumers cannot afford to buy. Prices for...

Tomato recalls and saving money

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

Have you seen the prices of tomatoes in the store lately? Wow! Now that is AFTER they have been back on the market following a mass recall.  There is something wrong when produce, fresh, simple, whole produce gets recalled. It’s not like it’s a...

Views differ on cause of rising food prices

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

Several months ago, in fact almost a year ago, our household began to notice trends and almost foresee that there was a looming shortage of food even in the ‘civilized Western World’ or at best the signs of pending inflation of food prices.  It is no...

Food shortage and food prices – the long haul.

by Dnurkle | | Food Supply

In an April 7th, article of the New York Times, the author ends with these words after going down the list of causes both in and out of our control about the shortage of food: “But it’s not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing...