Although National Food Day has come and gone, a coalition in New Orleans hopes to champion affordable, healthy and sustainable food all year round. Growing Local NOLA will be a new hub for research, education and community interaction on growing, marketing and preparing healthy fresh food. The centre is a [...]

Food independence refers to an individual or communities right to produce and distribute food without government intervention or control. Also inherent to the food independence movement is a desire to remove the power of food production from vast international corporations and place it back in the hands of ordinary people. [...]