Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union PLAZA – The popular Farmers’ Market went year-round last winter, with a handful of vendors clustered around Café Brio at Eighth and G streets. Business was brisk, so starting Saturday, Nov. 30, the Winter Farmers’ Market will line one block of G Street on the central Plaza. The Winter…
GMO Free Humboldt Advances Biotech Crop Ban
Bryn J. Robertson Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – The GMO Free Humboldt (GMOFH) group of local consumers, farmers and concerned individuals met again at the Bayside Grange Wednesday, Oct. 2, to discuss updates in their effort to ban cultivation of genetically modified food crops within county borders. Pared down from the initial three dozen who…
Kristyna Solawetz: Cultivate, Coordinate Local Food Production – March 6, 2010
Last September, the Co-op’s Eat Local Challenge drew commitments from 630 people to consume food produced in our region. The challenge of the coming decade will be to plan for a local food system that encompasses all residents of Humboldt County. In the past several years there has been a surge of growth in the…