===New1789.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Crawford Family Farm is a small, fourth generation dairy farm run by siblings Cindy, Jim and Sherry. We are maintaining a line of cattle started by our grandparents in the 1950s. Our parents, Bob and Bettelee, continually improved the Ayrshire herd and were named 1984 Vermont Dairy Farm of the Year. The fifth generation (aged 4-24) have all help with the cheese making, everything from renovating the barn for the cheese room to coming up with ideas for the label—and of course, taste-testing! ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Artisanal,Cheese,Cows,CrawfordFamilyFarm,Dairy,Family,Farmer,Handmade,Integrated,Local,Organic,Vermont ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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Francis is very well respected, which is why he was chosen to look after the village's buck. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Empoverment,FarmAfrica,Farming,Goats,Uganda ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=Francis *Editors=Farmafrica.org.ukEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/case_study.cfm?id=10 ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Tomatoes,Vegetables,fresh,local,organic,greenhouses,retailStand,TheBarsFarm,farmer,massachusetts ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=AllisonLandale *Editors=Redtomato.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.redtomato.org/profile_landale.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=presumed copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Biointensive,Gardening,Hunger,Malnutrition,Mexico,Poverty,Spanish,Translation,Villages ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=JuanManuelMartinez *Editors=EcologyAction,AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.growbiointensive.org/about_history.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=©2006 Ecology Action ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New177.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== New Vision (Kampala) OPINION September 19, 2006 Opiyo Oloya Kampala To The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), I want my peanut butter back. It has been almost two months since your New York agents seized my peanut butter at JFK Airport in New York. To be more exact, among the Acholi people of northern Uganda from whom I claim my heritage, we respectfully call it odii. It\'s the stuff of life that sustains families in tough times and good times - and God knows northern Uganda has had its share of tough times lately. But not to wax philosophy, let me get right to the point. For the uninitiated, odii is what halal meat is to Moslem, and kosher food is to the observant Jew. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Acholi,Kampala,Odii,OpiyoOloya,PeanutButter,Peanuts,Uganda ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=Opiyo Oloya *Editors=Opiyo Oloya, Andrius Kulikauskas *Urls=http://allafrica.com/stories/200609200185.html http://fullbellyblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/uganda-us-tsa-i-want-my-peanut-butter.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=No *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright by All Africa ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory? Please also list any online assistants.=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *Project=My Food Story *PageType=Story *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New1879.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Lee Roversi and her three children, Sky, Nell and Bay, are the creative forces behind the farm and its businesses. They are committed to the conscious intention behind the founding of North Country Farms. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Community,Cooperative,Educatoin,Farmer,Fruits,Hawaii,Local,NorthCountryFarms,Organic,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=LeeRoversi *Editors=Northcountryfarms.comEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.northcountryfarms.com/family.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Copyright © 2002 North Country Farms. 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Now she has more than 20 grandchildren and she is very happy to see all her family in the same house. She said it's good to see her sons teach their sons how to live on this land together. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Nablus,Olives,Palestine,Production,Sarah ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=ItafAhmed *Editors=AwneAboZant *Urls= ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=Yes *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted= ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=CSA,Heirloom,Herbs,Illinois,LocalHarvest,Organic,Tomatoes,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=Gray *Editors=Localharvest.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.localharvest.org/csadrops.jsp?id=10105 ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=© 1999-2006 LocalHarvest, Inc. ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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From 1980 to 1986, after studying Spanish and Latin American Studies as an undergraduate, and doing doctoral work in Anthropological Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Rick lived in Mexico with his wife, Deann, writing his now-classic Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking From The Heart of Mexico (William Morrow, 1987). The New York Times’s legendary Craig Claiborne hailed this work as the "greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable." In 1996, Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen: Capturing the Vibrant Flavors of a World-Class Cuisine (Scribner) won the IACP National Julia Child “Cookbook of the Year Award”. The New York Times praised him as a writer who makes "true Mexican food user-friendly for Americans," and Time Magazine hailed him as a "cookbook superstar." Rick's cookbook Salsas That Cook (Simon & Schuster), written with his wife, Deann, and JeanMarie Brownson, was published in 1999. At the 2001 James Beard Awards (the culinary equivalent of the Oscars), Mexico–One Plate at a Time, (Scribner) companion to the first season of the Public Television series by the same name , was singled out as the “Best International Cookbook”. In 1987, Rick having moved to Chicago, opened the hugely successful Frontera Grill, which specializes in contemporary regional Mexican cooking. On the heels of Frontera Grill's success, Rick opened the elegant Topolobampo in 1989. Topolobampo has been nominated twice by the James Beard Foundation as one of the most outstanding restaurants in our country. In 1996, Rick began the prepared food line of salsas, chips, and grilling rubs under the Frontera Foods label. Frontera Foods went on to open Frontera Fresco—a food kiosk in the historic Marshall Fields (now Macy’s) building in 2005 in Chicago. He is the founder of the Frontera Farmer Foundation, an organization that supports small local farmers and has been active in Share Our Strength, the nation's largest hunger advocacy organization. Mexico—One Plate at a Time is currently in its fifth season on PBS. His cookbook with his 15 year old daughter, Lanie, titled Rick and Lanie’s Excellent Kitchen Adventures was nominated for a James Beard Award as well as Rick’s sixth cookbook, Mexican Everyday. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Anthropologist,Author,Chef,Chicago,Cookbook,Linguist,Mexico,Restaurant,Television,USA ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=RickBayless *Editors=RickBayless,AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.rickbayless.com/about/meetrick.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New1429.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== One of those attending the meeting is 58-year-old Hayet Ali. “Before I started Nayakrishi the water was so poisonous you could not put your feet in” he remembers. “We had lost many of our local varieties of seed because the government was promoting hybrids. The soil condition was hard, and we were all losing money on chemicals and buying seed. Then after the 1988 floods we started talking with UBINIG about alternatives. We found immediately that with mixed cropping rather than monoculture we were eating better than before. We were eating our own varieties of rice and vegetables, and soon we had some left over to sell so we were gaining financially too. And our health was improving – skin diseases, stomach problems and even cholera had all gone.” ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Bangladesh,Biodiversity,Farmer,Health,Inter-cropping,NayakrishiAndolon,Organic,Rice,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=HayetAli *Editors=Farmingsolutions.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.farmingsolutions.org/ ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New364.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Alon works the land in a kipa and tzizit, traditional Jewish garments that remind him of a divine presence. A thick beard covers half his face. The wisdom of processing fresh crops into more stable forms is explained in religious terms. "Everything exists as a blessing. Our job is to make arrangements and opportunities to connect one blessing to the next." With processing, Alon has found a way to utilize whatever the plant may offer. Every healthy strawberry is harvested. Once the green tops are sliced off, all the berries are equally valuable for the pot. The same goes with all other crops grown. The revelations that came while he was adapting to processing motivated him to alter his growing system, striving towards a synergy among the farm components. Loops within loops, each whole system feeding another. The new goal is to create a closed unit where all needs can be generated on-site, without further inputs. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Israel,Jams,Organic,Spirituality,Strawberries,Sustainable,TheNewFarm ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=AlonZimmerman *Editors=YigalDeutscher,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.newfarm.org/international/israel/jan05/01.07.05/index.shtml ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New313.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Leslie Radford, "The Winter Harvest of the South Central Farmers", December 20, 2006: With little fanfare--no celebrity visits, no circling sheriff's helicopter--the South Central Farmers opened a community center last week. Tables jammed with Swiss chard, radishes, pomegranates, almonds, squash, and grapes lined the sidewalk and overflowed crates. South Central residents were choosing among organically grown produce that was tastier and more colorful than anything in Wild Oats or Whole Foods, fresh from the new farm. ... The center itself is four freshly painted rooms, lined with art and photos and reminders of the fight to save the Farm, waiting for more art, music, and computers. Here the Farmers and their supporters will meet to assess the South Central community's needs and how best to meet them, where they will teach healthy eating to all who will listen. And they will use the center to pressure local officials to take "a principled stance," as Tezozomoc put it. He and Rufina Juárez have led the Farmers through the eviction and on to these latest contributions from the Farmers to the most industrialized areas in Los Angeles. With evident pride, he added, "We delivered what we promised: we said we'd raise the money to save the Farm, and we did. We promised to deliver healthy food to the community, and we are. We'll be here every month." Across the street is a vacant lot where the South Central Farm once grew. The trees were pulled from the ground and their roots imprisoned in wooden cages for transport to Huntington Park, after Perry refused to find space in her district for this living memorial of the Farm. But the fight for the land at 41st and Alameda goes on still, in courtrooms and in low-key conference rooms. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Almond,Art,California,CommunityCenter,Computer,CounterPunch,Farm,Fresh,Grape,Latino,LosAngeles,Music,Pomegranate,Radish,SouthCentral,Squash,SwissChard ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=RufinaJuárez *Editors=LeslieRadford,AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.counterpunch.org/radford12202006.html http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=2 ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. 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Apprentice training/CRAFT program ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=AddedValue,Bakery,Beef,Biodynamic,Dairy,Farmer,HawthorneValleyFarm,NewYork,Organic,Pork,Small,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=SteffenSchneider *Editors=Farmandfood.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.farmandfood.org/directory/farms.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=© 2006 Regional Farm & Food Project. All rights reserved. ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? 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Where biofuel supporters see a green solution to their growing energy crisis, critics worry about the problematic - and possibly dangerous - tradeoffs in the rush to exploit environmental cash crops. Phuong Tran files a report from the West African Bureau in Dakar. Jatropha plant to be used in the first phase of biofuel production in Senegal Biofuel production will soon began in the southern Senegalese towns, Kolda and Tambacounda. Working in partnership with the Brazlian company Tecbio, the Senegalese government plans to produce crops on 50,000 hectares of land that can then be changed into biofuels, or renewable fuels created from agricultural crops. The environmental group Global Forest Coalition calls biofuels a disaster in the making. Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian environmentalist, is one of its members. "If people do not look at it critically, then the immediate response is 'yes let's go for it'," said Nnimmo Bassey. "Biofuels at a limited level as a supplement, community energy - no problem at all. When we are talking about using it as a major energy source, it is a wrong direction." President Wade has said that he wants to replace the more than 30,000 barrels of oil the country consumes each day with renewable fuels. Mr. Wade's "Return to Agriculture Program" positions biofuel production as a way to revitalize the sagging rural economy - giving small-scale farmers a new cash crop to export. This is a trend that Maryam Niamir-Fuller has seen in developing countries. She is a technical advisor for the Global Environment Facility, which helps developing countries' environmental programs. "What is happening with this massive demand coming up, many many countries see this as the new cash crop that countries can try to get foreign exchange fund for their economies," said Maryam Niamir-Fuller. Niamir-Fuller is worried that, in the rush to cash in on biofuels, increased demands on the land may lead to food security problems. "Some people are using the term food or fuel," she said. "Does the small-scale farmer focus on enhancing their own food security or do they convert everything to a cash crop, such as a biofuel?" The Senegal Ministry of Energy's technical advisor for renewable energies, Alassane Niane, says there does not have to be a choice between food and fuel. He says that that some of the crops that may be grown to be converted to biofuels can also be consumed, such as sugar cane and wheat - that there is not a dichotomy like critics claim. Nigerian environmentalist Bassey disagrees. "Those who believe that biofuel production will not harm the already precarious situation of food in Africa are just being too optimistic," he said. Niamir-Fuller raises a second concern about potential land degradation. "How will the move to biofuel production affect land use? What impacts that might have on land degradation? Whether it's overuse of chemical fertilizers, and pesticides or converting land that isn't suitable. Kind of like mining the land to produce biofuels," she said. Her third concern is the effect this plan will have on small-scale farmers. "In a situation in many countries, where land tenure is very insecure, this demand for biofuel production can very easily result in expropriation of land from small landholders," said Maryam Niamir-Fuller. Senegal's technical partner to help it develop biofuel production capabilities is the Brazilian company Tecbio. One of its directors, Jose Neivas Santos, dismisses concerns about environmental and economic tradeoffs of biofuels. Santos says that the technology to set up biofuel conversion plants costs less than what the Senegal currently spends to cover its oil needs. He says that the use of biofuels can cut carbon dioxide emissions and reduce the use of non-renewable oils. He also says that there are almost no disadvantages of the technology used to produce biofuels. During the oil crisis of the 1970's, Brazil's state-run and subsidized alcohol fuel program was set up to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern petroleum. After decades when the popularity of the program sunk because of high sugar prices and lower oil prices, the use of biofuels is picking up again in Brazil because of government incentives and the rising price of oil. Niamir-Fuller with the UNDP, cautions Senegal as it embarks on its biofuels experiment. "Yes, it can be a panacea, but it has got to be done right," she said. The first phase of biofuel production in Senegal will plant jatropha plants, which is a wild plant largely available throughout Africa. It has been touted as an oil-rich plant that can be planted on marginal lands with little need for water or fertilizers, reaping returns once converted to biofuels. But analysts caution over-optimism, saying that more testing about the plant's yield and suitability needs to be conducted. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Biofuel,Brazil,Criticism,Environmentalist,Experiment,Nigeria,Senegal,VoiceOfAmerica ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=NnimmoBassey *Editors=PhuongTran,AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-01/2007-01-10-voa73.cfm ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted= ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? 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"We are laughing on the outside but inside, the sadness is very deep," said Abu Naim, 53. "We are dead people." ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=AbuNaim *Editors=RoryMcCarthy, AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1945358,00.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=No *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Copyright Guardian Unlimited ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Family,Fishermen,Gaza,Palestine,Restrictions,Sardines,WeaponsSmuggling ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *Project=My Food Story *PageType=Story *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New155.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Write your personal Information and try to present yourself by giving detailed information on, how you will get your community be prepared incase there is an outbreak of Bird Flu pandemic or any disaster in your area. Your personal information will help those in our forum to contact you later for reference. Personal Information: Name: Wilson Otieno Audi Address: P.O Box 191, Mbita 40305 Email: Cell: Country: Kenya Occupation: Fisherman Luanda Rombo beach What you would do if there was bird flu? And tell me, how you would educate the people about the facts on bird flu preparedness. With the manageable information I have, there are lots of advice and teachings I can give to people incase there is any Bird flu attack in this area. We are under threat of the bird flu even though our government says we are safe. Indigenous birds are always in close contact with human beings, usually there is no separate poultry house. As such they live in the same houses with people. Poultry are in close contact with children to the extent of `poaching` children’s food as they eat. This close association with human beings is worth considering under the prevailing threat. Occasionally there may be the unfortunate behavior of eating sick or dead birds. There is also problem of mishandling the dead birds infected without knowledge of its effects to ones health. Problem of inhaliation of dust while cleaning in poultry house without mask. As per the above record we have to get ready measures to protect the people from dying by: Maintaining poultry in a limited area and avoid communal ranging. Fence homesteads with cheap locally available materials to save costs. This will minimize contact with wild birds or neighboring flocks. Construct bird proof structures for poultry. Use of cheap locally available material will safeguard on the costs. This will keep away predators, wild birds, neighboring poultry, pigs and limited poultry contacts. Vaccinate poultry against the common diseases such as new castle, Gumboro, and fowl typhoid. Make the community report all the sickness or death of poultry/ birds to the nearest veterinary office, public health office or any government office near them. I can encourage them to have their poultry examined by qualified personnel. Lastly I can encourage families to cook their poultry meat properly. Would you leave the pandemic to continue? I cannot leave our community to suffer but would do the necessary help possible. In case there are many birds or poultry death the first thing I would do is to notify the nearest Veterinary Officer for action, I have to show my commitment to help and be always responsible. It is necessary to take samples of the dead birds to the laboratories for analysis to identify the cause of death…..and then think of disposing the dead birds as safely as possible to avoid further spread of deaths and human handling them. We have to get others oriented with this to be able to give advice properly, but I cannot leave. We must have key always there to give support whenever there is an attack. If you leave, get sick, with pandemic, who could replace you? It is important to mention that dead birds should not be eaten. There are beliefs among us that that poultry diseases cannot affect human beings….the disease is transferable from bird to man, just the mere handling of the infected bird leave alone eating it. So far it can affect all living beings and people are liable to pass different information to who can help in case there is an out break. There must be trained personnel…and this is what we are to do. What are their plans in the event of any kind of emergency (disaster)? In the event or before any out break I plan to make a combined force which can disseminate information and make the people be well conversant with the out come of the bird flu. We must set guidelines for handling the dead bird from unknown origin or those that may die on our homes and farms. We need to train the community on packing the dead birds and disposing them, on holding them with protected hands and pulling them for disposal. 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The clay in the dirt clogs the pumps. Our pumps break.” ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Afghanistan,Farmer,Fruits,Help,Irrigation,USAID ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=HabiabdulHabib *Editors=USAIDEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.usaid.gov/stories/afghanistan/ss_afghan_irrigationdrip.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted= ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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The symposium participants will include farmers, agriculture business representatives, scientists and agricultural development specialists from the U.S., Lithuania and other countries. Both Qualset and Francis presented papers at an international conference on rural development at the Lithuanian Agricultural University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Dr. Charles Francis reviewed the farm and forest site and its activities and presented a very useful report the presented suggestions for improvement of the goals and overall operations. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=AuksuciaiFoundation,Development,Discussion,Kaunas,Lithuania,Ministry,Scientist,Sustainable,Symposium ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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Flory launched Spring Hill in early spring of 2000, and for its first three seasons all of its employees were women: not by design, Flory emphasizes, but simply because most of the applications she received—and all of the strongest ones, in her opinion—came from young women. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Farming,Flowers,NewJersey,Organic,TheNewFarm,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=PamFlory *Editors=LauraSayre,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.newfarm.org/features/0803/jerseygirls.shtml ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. 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It happened when he saw a garlic scape, the long, thin and intricate winding end of a growing hard-necked garlic plant. Its delicate beauty and flowing symmetry caught his imagination immediately, and Tom was smitten. Through graduate school and in the years following his first encounter with the plant, Tom’s passion for garlic has only grown. Today, as the owner of Whistlepig Farm, he grows forty varieties of specialty and heirloom garlic. You might say – and he does – that Tom is a garlic freak. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=AddedValue,AppalachianSustainableAgricultureProject,BeyondOrganic,Farmer,Garlic,Heirloom,Local,NorthCarolina,Passion,Specialty,WhistlepigFarm ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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And actually they don't like the work in the land because it's a hard work for them because there father was do all the work by him self and he was grow wheat in his land and some vegetables some times of the year and sale the wheat crops for the traders who buy it from him and change it into flour by a special machines and then sale it to the cities markets like Nablus and Ram Allah and some times if they have the enough quantities they export some of it to Israel. And about if he like to get back his land he said "my son I am an old man as I told you and my life will end any time but I can get it back by one thing and it's to persuade my children to work in the land because it's one of there rights and without it they are not existed and by that I will be happy in my other life!" ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. 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Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New596.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Yritys Fenno Natura Oy/Ab on luontaistuotealan tukku- ja markkinointiyritys, jolla on laaja tuotevalikoima. Fenno Natura on perheyritys, joka on perustettu vuonna 1987. Tuotteet Osa tuotteistamme on kansainvälisesti tunnettuja, osa on valmistettu erityisesti Suomen markkinoita varten. Fenno Naturan tuotteita on myynnissä pääasiassa erikoiskaupoissa ympäri Suomea, mutta myös joidenkin tavaratalojen erikoisosastolla. Kartuttaessamme tuotevalikoimaamme pidämme tärkeänä tuotteiden valmistajien luotettavuutta ja tuotteiden laatu- ja hintasuhdetta. Valikoimaamme kuuluu luontaiselintarvikkeet, kuivatut hedelmät, yrttiteet ja soijajuomat; erityisvalmisteet, kuten vitamiini-, hiven-, kivennäisaine-, rasvahappo-, valkosipuli-, siitepöly-, laihdutus- ja vilustumistuotteet ja ruoansulatusta edistävät tuotteet; urheilijoiden ja kehonrakentajien lisäravinteet, kuten proteiini-, hera- ja energiavalmisteet; sekä luontaiset, kosmeettiset tai antiseptiset ihonhoitovalmisteet. Logistiikka Fenno Natura hoitaa tuotelogistiikkansa täysin itsenäisesti. Ostamme, hoidamme tuontiin liittyvät huolintatyöt ja varastoimme tuotteet omassa hyllyvarastossamme. Kuljetuksissa asiakkaille noudatamme ns. ovelta-ovelle -käytäntöä. Tuotteille, joiden menekki on alhainen, painamme itse markkinoiden edellyttämät päällysmerkinnät. Kuivatut hedelmät ja pähkinät pakkaamme käsin pusseihin tai valmistamme niistä näyttäviä lajitelmia jouluksi. Markkinoinnin aivoriihi. Markkinointi Fenno Naturassa uskomme voimakkaaseen markkinointiin ja mainontaan. Panostammekin markkinointitoimenpiteisiin yli 10 % liikevaihdostamme . Julkaisemme kolme, neljä kertaa vuodessa oman lehden. Terve-lehti on kahdeksansivuinen ja painomäärä on noin 1,6 milj. kappaletta. Tuotemainonnassamme käytämme päivä-, viikko- ja kohderyhmälehtiä sekä valtakunnallista TV-mainontaa. Kuluttajille painatamme tuotekohtaisia esitteitä ja kauppiaille myymäläsomistukseen ikkunajulisteita ja myyntitelineitä. Myymälöihin tarjoamme tuote-esittelijöitä ja osallistumme kauppiaiden paikallisesti järjestämiin myynninedistämiskampanjoihin. Makes product GreenCoffeeSLIM on tuote joka voi auttaa kiinteytys- ja laihdutuspyrkimyksissä. Tuotteessa on kolme aktiiviainetta: vihreä kahviuute, ananasjauhe ja kromi, ne auttavat ongelma-alueisiin jotka yleensä ratkaisevat laihdutustuloksen. Laihdutus Paahtamattomasta, vihreästä kahvipavusta on valmistettu standardoitu vihreä kahviuute. Kaksoissokkotutkimuksessa havaittiin että henkilöt, jotka saivat tätä uutetta 400 mg päivässä laihtuivat keskimäärin 5 kiloa kahdessa kuukaudessa. Laihdutusteho perustuu vihreän kahviuutteen klorogeenihappoon, joka vähentää sokereiden ja rasvojen imeytymistä kehoon. Selluliitin poisto Ananaksen entsyymit auttavat proteiinien pilkkomisessa ja siten ruoansulatusta. Ananas poistaa nestettä kehosta vähentäen paikallisia turvotuksia ja myös selluliittia. Makeanhimon hillitseminen Kromi on tärkeä hivenaine joka vähentää makeanhimoa ja tasaa verensokeriarvoja. Makeanhimon hillitseminen on tärkeää kun pyritään irti suklaan, pullan tai karkin napostelusta. Laihdutuskuurin aikana kannattaa juoda runsaasti vettä. Annostus- ja käyttöohje: Ota 1 tabletti 2 kertaa päivässä. Suositeltua vuorokausiannosta ei tule ylittää. Tätä ravintolisää ei tule käyttää monipuolisen ruokavalion korvikkeena. Säilytys: Säilytä kuivassa paikassa huoneenlämmössä valolta suojattuna. Ei lasten ulottuville. Laktoositon, gluteeniton ja hiivaton. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Coffee,FennoNatura,Finland,GreenCoffee,MeaningfulInclusion,Tea,Tisane,Trader ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=StenFallström *Editors=MarkusPetz *Urls=http://www.fennonatura.fi/index.php3?clang=f http://www.fennonatura.fi/index.php3 ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New685.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== ãÍãÏ ÍÓä ÚæÇÏ ãä ãæÇáíÏ ÚÇã 1941ã ãÒÇÑÚ ãä ÞÑíÉ ÚæÑÊÇ ÞÑÈ äÇÈáÓ æåæ íÚãá Ýí ÇáÒÑÇÚÉ ãäÐ Ãä Ãäåì ÇáÕÝ ÇáÎÇãÓ ãä ãÏÑÓÉ ÚæÑÊÇ ÇáÅÈÊÏÇÆíÉ ÝÞÏ ßÇä íÓÇÚÏ æÇáÏå Ýí ÍÑÇËÉ ÃÑÖå æ ÇáÊí íãÊáßåÇ åæ æ ÃÔÞÇÄå ÇáÂä Ýåæ íÚÊÞÏ Ãä ÚäÇíÊå ÈÃÑÖ æÇáÏå ÇáãÊæÝí äæÚ ãä ÃäæÇÚ ÇáÈÑ áæÇáÏå æ ÇáæÝÇÁ áå æåæ íÞæã ÈÒÑÇÚÉ ÇáØãÇØã æ ÇáÎíÇÑ æ ÇáÝÞæÓ ßá Ýí ãæÓãå æíÕÏÑ ãäÊÌÇÊå áãÏíäÉ äÇÈáÓ æ ÇáÊí ÊÚÊÈÑ ÃÞÑÈ ÇáãÏä Åáì ÞÑíÊå æåæ ÈÐáß íÄãä ÞæÊå æÒæÌÊå ÇáãÓäÉ Ðáß ÈÇáÅÖÇÝÉ áãÇ íÞÏãå áå ÃÈäÇÁå ãä ãÓÇÚÏÉ æ åæ íÚÊÞÏ Ãä åÐå ÇáÃÑÖ áíÓÊ ãáßå ÝÞØ ÅäãÇ åí ÃãÇÊÉ ãäÍå Çááå ÓÈÍÇäå ÅíÇåÇ áÅäåÇ ÌÒÁ ãä ÝáÓØíä ÇáãÞÏÓÉ æÃä æÇÌÈ ÇáÚäÇíÉ ÈåÇ ÅáÇåí ææØäí ßÐáß Ýåæ áä íÊÑßåÇ áÞãÉ ÕÇÆÛÉ áãä íÍÇæáæä ÇáãÓÇÓ ÈåÇ Ãæ ãÕÇÏÑÊåÇ ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. 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Although selecting a tea and snacks in a shop with so much variety can be intimidating, Chou and his assistants, as is the case with most other shops in Maokung, are more than happy to make suggestions. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Grower,Taiwan,Tea,Trader ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=ChouJen-chih *Editors=MikeSullivan,SashaMrkailo. *Urls=http://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/sports/0597_Maokung.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New351.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Nawal yaser from kofr al deek and she is 39 years old and she worked at a big land for a rich man at the village and she spend with that on her children’s because she has five childes in the school and they wants a lot of things like the school money and the other main things like clothes and food but she has her own dreams to collect some money to buy her own land and it will be for her childes after her death and she work on that and she will keep working until her dreams become true! ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Farming,KofrAlDeek,Nablus,Palestine,Production ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *Project=My Food Story *PageType=Story *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New838.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Extreme Weather Having Effects Worldwide By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 18 July 2005 Voice of America Hurricanes and floods aren't the only weather concerns. Drought conditions are also prevalent in some parts of the world, causing some, like Illinois farmer Mark Yonkers, to worry. "Normally, the leaves will all be opened up, and a lot fuller looking than what it is." The U.S. corn crop is in its key pollination stage, and needs rain. But Illinois, the second largest corn-producing U.S. state, is experiencing its worst drought in 20 years. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Beekeeper,Helping,Honey,Jamaica,PeaceCorps ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=TedDennard *Editors=MaryLanders,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/1007863.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=No *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Cheese,FarmAid,Farming,Milk,Organic,Pennsylvania ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=BrianFuthey *Editors=Farmaid.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.farmaid.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7077&news_iv_ctrl=1121 ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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They bought baby calves and raised them organically. Their first customers were friends and a single local store, but Stuart's confidence and their fan base quickly grew. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Cheese,Dairy,Milk,Organic,SlowFoodUSA,Texas ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=StuartVeldhuizen *Editors=MaryO'Grady,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.slowfoodusa.org/events/terra_delegate_1.html ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Presumed Copyright ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Figs,Nablus,Palestine,Production,Til ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=SalmanFaraj *Editors=AwneAboZant *Urls= ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=Yes *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted= ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory? Please also list any online assistants.=== *WantsToParticipate=Confirmed ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *Project=My Food Story *PageType=Story *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New1506.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== From the farmtotable website: Just like any other crop, fresh-caught fish change with the seasons. Whether it�s tuna, porgy, striped bass, herring, or flounder, Alex and Stephanie Villani guarantee that the fish is fresh and caught locally in the waters off Eastern Long Island ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=BlueMoonFish,FarmToTable,Fisherman,Herring,NewYork,Porgy,StripedBass,Tuna,WildCaught ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=AlexVillani *Editors=Farmtotable.orgEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://farmtotable.org/index.php?cmd=F2TFarmer&id=4483 ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Copyright Earth Pledge ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Shoes,bags,leather,longevity,sustainable,artisan,uniqueDesign,quality ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=DonovanSkirvin *Editors=SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.lifestylesnorthwest.com/sustainable/story.php?story_id=117346631283986200 http://www.esecarnal.com/esecarnaltrans.htm ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Copyright 2007 Pamplin Media Group, 6605 S.E. Lake Road, Portland, OR 97222 • 503-226-6397 ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New489.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== The farm has evolved over the years to make sustainability an aspect of every function of the operation. “We’ve been growing organic vegetables for over 30 years,” says Karen, noting that’s where the farm began its journey even though most people didn’t know what that meant 30 years ago. Today, customers at the Crow Wing County co-op purchase their vegetables—and today’s customer is a bit more savvy. Since they purchased the farm in 1974, the Knierim’s have developed a multifaceted approach to sustainability and recycling. One aspect of this is seen in their organic cotton clothing business. The venture, started in 1994, is a full-time business with some part-time help in the winter and three to four full-time employees in the summer. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Cotton,Homestead,Minnesota,Organic,Sewing,Sustainable,TheNewFarm,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=ChuckKnierim *Editors=DeborahHyk,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.newfarm.org/features/2006/1106/wildrose/hyke.shtml ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New939.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Ken Dawson's early farming experiences were helping on his grandfather's tobacco farm in Virginia during the summers as a teenager and, as a young adult, working seasonally for 5 years on a local dairy farm. He entered market gardening by selling surplus from his organic garden in 1972, continuing to sporadically market produce for the next ten years while doing other work. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Gardening,Market,NorthCarolina,Organic,SouthernSustainableAgricultureWorkingGroup,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New917.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== Khaled Wa'el, an old man from Awata village near Nablus city, has some figs trees and small lands where he grows some vegetables. He said he cannot produce large quantity of vegetables because he doesn't have any supports from the Palestinian government. He told us he needs both technical and financial supports to increase his productivity and quality of the products. He hopes the government will be able to help him and solve the problem in the near future. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=AwartaVillage,Figs,Nablus,Palestine,Production ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. 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Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=CSA,Chicken,Eggs,Farmer,Grazing,HerbanLivingFarm,Interplanting,NewHampshire,RopRotation,Vegetables ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=LisaBeaudoin *Editors=HerbanLivingFarm.comEditor,SashaMrkailo *Urls=http://www.herbanlivingbandb.com/HerbanLivingFarm/ ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=©2006 herban living bed & breakfast ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? Where are they generating content in the Public Domain that we might store and aggregate, for example, using RSS feeds?=== ===Files: You may upload related files if you have permission and they are Public Domain or are clearly marked as to their copyright status. Please describe the files below.=== *Files= ===This is a Story for My Food Story=== *PleaseCompleteThisPassword=Minciu ===New1651.dw=== ===Storyteller, please tell us a story about food.=== The Abraham Project – Promoting A Sustainable Community School System, is a project of Aimee Gaines, age 25, a campaign field organizer from Piketon, Ohio. The Abraham Project provides lighting and a sustainable income for the operation of the Abraham village school in rural Haiti. Through collaboration with the community group of the village of Abraham, Aimee implemented a pig-raising project and will install solar panels at the village school when on leave from her current work. Aimee established a project committee, defined clear goals for the project, taught a class on money and project management and developed an accountability contract signed by all village parents (32 families/132 children) involved in the project. With village labor, Aimee built a pig shelter and installed five certified breeding pigs; built a feed depot and secured feed. Aimee accomplished her work amidst chaos in Haiti’s principal cities. Aimee’s most important long-term goal is the development of a model project that can be duplicated in other Haitian communities. Please contact Wild Gift director Bob Jonas, 208-726-8579 or bobjonas@cox.net, for leader contact information. Leaders will be happy to share progress reports or field other questions related to their projects. ===Optional: You may add tags to help classify this story. Separate them by commas.=== *Tags=Accountability,Breeding,Chaos,Feed,Haiti,Income,Lighting,Model,Money,Ohio,Organizer,Pig,Piketon,Solar,Sustainability,Teacher ===Sources: Please add the name of the original Storyteller as well as any Editors who helped. List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=AimeeGaines *Editors=WildGiftEditor,AndriusKulikauskas *Urls=http://www.wildgift.org/leaders.htm ===Rights: Is the above excerpt protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=© 2007 Wild Gift ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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List any relevant urls.=== *Storyteller=JosephMbindyo *Editors=MikePflanz,SashaMrkailo. *Urls=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p04s01-woaf.html ===Rights: Has the original Storyteller granted permission to publish the above story? Also, is it protected by any form of Copyright? Your original content contributed here is assumed to be Public Domain unless you indicate otherwise. Thank you for contributing to the Public Domain!=== *StorytellerHasGrantedPermission=No *PublicDomainExceptAsNoted=Copyright © 2007 The Christian Science Monitor ===Participation: Does the Storyteller want to participate in MyFoodStory?=== *WantsToParticipate=Unknown ===Participation Details: How are they participating in our networks? Is anybody representing them online? What are next steps? 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Talking to Joyce Auma Osongo of Mbita market where we sell Soya bean in Small quantities, the true story of Soya bean as a crop comes real with one day’s demand and reasons why it’s selling much locally than other leguminous seeds. It is food as well as life saving crop. The farmers around the lake shore does not grow much of Soya bean, most of the seeds of Soya sold here are collected from other further markets and stored here and sold on retail. The Suba District farmers grow Soya as a subsistence crop but the government is always helping people with technology skills for most of the agricultural issues to help them expand the production requirements and to satisfy the increasing demand. Anyway, the traders in Mbita including me says, that if we could have more stock of Soya beans continuously throughout the year the sale can go up. The current production is low and this is the reason for limited stock. Typically storage is done in smaller stores like the ones here below showing the already stored Soya beans waiting to be sold to consumers in Mbita Market. We don’t sell to established commercial businesses but to the final consumers. Although we are committed as traders to make the people here understand and utilize the impotence of Soya beans and having Information technology element to help spread the connection and information, we have to get connected with updated information of markets nationally and globally. We must have a means where we are informed of current rates in other markets and this can be done through information sharing to farmers or the retail traders. With internet connections available to Soya Bean consumers also, we are going to identify the existing markets for consumers and farmers who need seed for planting. In Kenya and many tropical countries, national development strategies are being reoriented toward increasing and diversifying food production and consumption, in order to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. As essential first stage in this endeavor is the promotion of indigenous foods, by encouraging their production and their effective utilization. Development activities in many developing countries are radically changing the pattern of rural life through technology and information transfer. With the improvements in communication and education, rural cultivators have become more mobile and more ambitious. They have moved to towns and entered the market economy as cash crop producers. Broadening the food base with traditional food plants therefore will inquire an integrated programme of investment, research and extension, combined with improved facilities for processing, marketing and distributing the products. Promotion of effective food utilization requires an understanding of the complex sequence of interrelated events from the moment a crop is harvested until it is consumed; this sequence is summarized as post-harvest food handling. The food handling sequence depends on the commodity; normally it includes primary and secondary processing, storage and marketing, followed by household preparation and consumption. In countries like Kenya, many such activities take place at the community or small-scale commercial levels, using traditional methods and techniques empirically developed through that community. Where possible in this compendium, the principles underlying traditional processing and preservation techniques have been delineated, but the most traditional techniques have evolved over time and have never been formally recorded or standardized. Here indeed, is a rich field for scientific investigation and development, and technological transfer between communities, to guide and support formal endeavors to improve community nutrition and commercial gains. The introduction of new foods into the community is fraught with difficulties. Familiar foods are deeply cherished and create a feeling of unity and security. A food staple that is regularly eaten in large quantities is often identified with food itself, and any changes in its precise characteristics of appearance, flavour or texture may be strongly resisted. Although Soya bean is produced in a number of tropical countries, especially In Brazil, its local utilization as food is dependent on the of an appropriate traditional processing technique, such as micro-bial fermentation, and the local acceptance of the textures and flavours of fermented bean products. In the absence of these, in most regions of the tropics Soya beans have bean regarded as cash crop, cultivated for oil extraction and animal feed or, in most cases, sold to industrialized countries for processing. The team below made this Food story possible and was coordinated by Samwel Kongere samkongere2004@yahoo.com Onset. Bernard Midian’ga Okello- Herbalist Rusinga Island Mbita Hezra Omwoma Omwoma- Farmer Rusinga Island Mbita kawadevelopment@yahoo.com Francis Opiyo Opiyo-Network Member Mbita opiyo79@gmail.com Kennedy Ojengo, helped in Pictures- Youth Volunteer Rusinga Island Jared Apache- Youth initiative Rusinga Island