Interfaith gardens grow food and fellowship
Volunteers from different faith communities have been working together to grow food. Columbia has more than 30 community garden plots, and several of them are interfaith gardens.
View ArticleFDA launches new gluten free rules
Walk down a grocery store aisle or open a restaurant menu.Gluten-free labels are everywhere.Gluten is a starchy protein compound found in products made from wheat, barley and rye. It’s what gives dough...
View ArticleField Notes: Overhaul of meat labels on hold
This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.
View ArticleDisplaced Pinhook residents look for new home
Drive along southeast Missouri’s Highway VV in Mississippi County, and you will primarily see vibrant green fields littered with farm equipment and the occasional farmer working the land.The burned out...
View ArticleWaynesville flooding victim identified
Authorities in southern Missouri have identified a 23-year-old single mother who's presumed to have died in recent flooding that also killed her young son.Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said Thursday...
View ArticleRural areas face limited access to nutritious food
Limited access to nutritious food is an issue facing rural communities in Missouri and the nation at large, according to University of Missouri specialists.
View ArticleConsumers often lost in the middle of scientific food battles
Hot-button food issues of the day, such as the use of genetically modified organisms or the treatment of livestock, tend to pit large industries against smaller activist groups. Often, both sides will...
View ArticleThe new wheat behind whole grain white bread
A new wheat variety may have cracked the code to marry the fluffiness of white bread with whole grain nutrition.For a long time, American bread makers have been in a bind. Many consumers like the...
View ArticleField Notes: Snowmass wheat
This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes
View ArticleColumbia Public Schools Challenge to Preserving Food
With seven snow days, Columbia Public Schools has already surpassed its allotted limit of six snow days for the 2013-14 school year. For most, a snow day leads to relaxation. For people involved in the...
View ArticleCongressmen aim to improve river management during droughts and floods
Two freshman Congressmen from southern Illinois want the Army Corps of Engineers to start thinking of ways it can coordinate river management to keep cargo traffic flowing during droughts or floods.
View ArticleGluten-free by popular demand
Six months ago, Kara Welter drastically changed her diet by eliminating food that contains wheat, rye or barley.“I don’t eat gluten,” said Welter, a 41-year-old marketing executive in Kansas City. “I...
View ArticleFlooding causes road closures in mid-Missouri
Flooding from thunder storms has caused a large number of road closures in mid-Missouri, Thursday.
View ArticleWant To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That
If you really love your peaches and want to shake a tree, there's a map to help you find one. That goes for veggies, nuts, berries and hundreds of other edible plant species, too.Avid foragers Caleb...
View Article12 Mo. counties eligible for disaster assistance
Farmers in a dozen Missouri counties could be eligible for emergency loans through the U.S. Agriculture Department for damage from severe spring weather.
View ArticleCan You Call Yourself An Environmentalist And Still Eat Meat?
Earlier this week, we told you about a school backed by director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, that may become the first vegan school in the U.S.In describing the couple's path to...
View Article'Natural' Food Sounds Good But Doesn't Mean Much
Some people have had it with "natural" food.For fifteen years, Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety and sustainability for Consumer Reports, has been pointing out that "natural" is just about...
View ArticleSome Food Companies Are Quietly Dumping GMO Ingredients
A tour of the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury, Vt., includes a stop at the "Flavor Graveyard," where ice cream combinations that didn't make the cut are put to rest under the shade of big...
View ArticleSpikes in meat prices, but not overall food prices
Food prices are up, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture isn’t forecasting a drastic surge. In spite of price spikes in the meat aisle, grocery prices are not rising any faster than they have...
View ArticleClimate, space create challenges for local food
Local food is no longer just a novelty. Farmers markets are growing nationwide and farms that sell directly to consumers brought in $1.3 billion in 2012, up eight percent from just five years earlier.
View ArticleU.S. meat inspection system in disarray, watchdogs say
Jennifer Brdar’s dream job was to be a meat inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, watching out for unwary consumers and making sure the meat on their dinner tables was clean and disease-free.
View ArticleNutritious Acorns Don't Have To Just Be Snacks For Squirrels
These days, Americans are all about eating local foods. But one important local crop drops to the ground mostly unnoticed every fall. Well, unless you're a squirrel. Yes, we're talking about...
View ArticleColorado cluster wants to boost local food’s economic heft
More cities want to take eating local food from just a hip trend to an economic generator, but as in many grassroots movements, there can be some growing pains along the way. Northern Colorado...
View ArticleVintage Beer? Aficionados Say Some Brews Taste Better With Age
In the late 1970s, a young Southern California beer enthusiast named Bill Sysak began doing something quite novel at the time. He bought cases of beer and stashed the bottles in his basement to age...
View ArticleHere Say: Your Stories about Food, Told at the Columbia Farmer's Market
Here Say is a project in community storytelling. We travel to a new place each week and ask people to share true stories about things we all experience: love, family, learning, etc. To see where we've...
View ArticleYour Grandparents Spent More Of Their Money On Food Than You Do
When admiring such enticing items at the grocery store as an avocado for $1.50, an $8 chocolate bar or fresh wild Alaskan salmon for $20 a pound, you've probably experienced sticker shock.Indeed,...
View ArticleShakespeare's Pizza to Move Temporarily, Building to be Demolished Downtown
The tweet went out around 10:25 a.m. from the Columbia Daily Tribune on April Fools Day.It read, “Not April Fools’: Downtown @ShakesPizza location slated for demolition.”Despite the day on the...
View ArticleWhy We Can't Take Chipotle's GMO Announcement All That Seriously
Chipotle is trumpeting its renunciation of ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
View ArticleWhy Food Companies Should Be More Afraid Of Water Scarcity
America's biggest food production companies face a growing threat of water scarcity, according to a new report from Ceres, an environmental sustainability group.Producing food, after all, requires more...
View Article'Mustard Oil Bomb': How Caterpillars Shaped the Taste of Mustard
Each month at the Columbia Science Cafe, a researcher from the University of Missouri gives a presentation at Broadway Brewery as people enjoy a beer or a bite to eat.While the world of research labs...
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