Jul 17, 2010 0
Gone (sustainable) fishin’
Our blog is on hiatus for a few weeks -- but look for us on Facebook and Twitter, and join us off the Internet July 31 at the Elmhurst Green Festival. And, in the… Continue reading
Jul 8, 2010 1
Big news
The news has already hit the internet, but just to make it official, on July 7 Fresh Picks was awarded an $81,000 grant from the USDA's Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program. This is… Continue reading
Jun 29, 2010 0
The last tuna
It's entirely possible you've already seen this week's New York Times Magazine cover story on the rapidly disappearing bluefin tuna. It's hard to miss --… Continue reading Jun 21, 2010 0
The Food Bubble
Remember the wheat crisis?
This is perhaps a bit far afield -- bushels of hard winter wheat don't generally turn up in your Fresh Picks box -- but there's a fascinating and, depending on your… Continue reading
Jun 14, 2010 0
Planning for food
Calling all public policy geeks:
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has just released a draft of its "Go to 2040" plan, a comprehensive document intended to direct regional growth and development over the next… Continue reading
Jun 8, 2010 0
Weed reads and more
Here's another fascinating -- and superdepressing -- piece on the rise of pesticide-resistant superweeds, courtesy of Barry Estabrook, over at Mark Bittmans new blog. Estabrook's work for Gourmet was some of the most… Continue reading
May 24, 2010 0
Taking the pulse of the food movement
I plugged this over on our Facebook page, but after a closer read I want to urge you again to read this excellent essay-cum-book-review by Michael Pollan in the New York Review of
May 20, 2010 0
Locavore backlash?
It feels like every time I turn around lately I'm blogging, tweeting, or otherwise plugging Monica Eng. What can I say? Eng, a Chicago Tribune food writer, has a lock lately on my favorite beat… Continue reading
May 16, 2010 0
Irv and Shelly, in the news
Belatedly, I should also plug this nice Chicago Tribune piece from early May, which holds up our own little Fresh Picks as a model of socially conscious entrepreneurship -- with all the profit-margin problems… Continue reading
May 16, 2010 0
Rise of the superweeds
Well, it was bound to happen. Just as the development of increasingly powerful antibiotics has led to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, so too goes the soil. To wit:
"Just as the heavy use of antibiotics… Continue reading