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Thanks to all who registered. You can find info on share pickups and more here.
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Also known as “what’s that funny-looking orange icon on the right side of the page?”
Let’s say that you’re really into international news. Every morning you go online, fire up your web browser, and surf to the international sections of the New York Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, Miami Herald, and the BBC Online to see what’s going on in the world.
Wouldn’t it be easier if there was only one place you had to go to? Only one place to visit, instead of checking for new articles by visiting each site individually?
That’s what RSS technology can do for you. Using something called a feed reader, which can either be software installed on your computer or a website that you log in to, you can subscribe to any site that publishes a news feed. Every time you log in, your feed reader will check for new articles and display them for you – making it super-easy to keep track of many sites at once.
Here’s an example of what a feed reader looks like, courtesy of FeedBurner, and here’s an article from CNN explaining more about what RSS is.
Interested in getting started? Here’s a great page with top pics for feed reading software and websites – about 1/3 of the way down the page, check out the “Popular Feed Readers” heading on the right-hand-side column.
Back to that to that big orange icon on the right. That thing is a widely-used symbol for RSS; if you see it on a site, you can be sure that it publishes a feed you can subscribe to. Now, not all sites that have feeds will show the icon, and some sites use different icons, but this one is very common. If you click on the icon on this page, you’ll be presented with many means of automatically subscribing to our feed – just choose your software or service.
Happy feed reading!
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The web address of this blog has changed to:
http://blog.thefoodproject.org
Hopefully you were forwarded here automatically and didn’t even notice the change.
Please use this new address when linking to or accessing this blog. If you run into problems, please drop us a line at Thanks!
UPDATE: Note that our RSS feed has changed as well (we are now using FeedBurner for our feed). Your old feed should be automatically redirected.
Wondering what RSS is? Have no idea what the previous paragraph meant? We’ll soon publish a post showing how to use this stuff to keep track of us here at The Food Project!
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Big steps forward (and one step back):
The Real Food Challenge is taking off. Our goal: re-direct $4 billion worth of college food spending towards smaller, local, organic farmers in the US and beyond. This summer, we—along with our partners, including Slow Food USA and the California Student Sustainability Coalition—formed a national Design Team. Leading up to the Sept 2008 public launch, we are defining plans, hosting two regional summits (one at Yale in November), and creating a website (late Oct). We plan to hit the ground running with at least 80 schools signed up to work towards a collective goal.
Living the change we want to see: The third class of Cadre members finished their year with a final retreat at a food sovereignty conference in Hawaii. Joining 160 youth, mostly native Hawaiians from all of the different islands, this was a more of a deep experience of cultural revival than a typical conference. We built stone walls, repaired fish ponds, planted taro (“kalo”), made a traditional pit oven, cooked pork, and hosted a fundraiser, among other things. More photos and info at: http://handsturned.tripod.com/
New Cadre class includes 3 from TFP community. TFP alums David Schwartz and Carmen Dongo join John Wang 7 other young leaders from around the country in next year’s Cadre class. There were more than 3 applicants for every spot. Decision-making was excruciating. Thanks to those who read applications and gave input. The first retreat for this group is this weekend. Almost half of the Cadre members are heavily involved in creating The Real Food Challenge. See profiles at: http://www.thefoodproject.org/blast/internal1.asp?ID=602
Reap/Sow is going to cover crop. We are suspending production this year to focus on the Real Food Challenge. The website is still up and contains a great archive of reviews, recipes, art, and other creative and fun stuff. You can always check it out at www.reapsow.org.
Closing words from one of the many chants we learned at Hawaii:
Gratitude, admiration, thanks, and love
To all who are present both seen and unseen.
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Spices of Life is a videoblog hosted by Nina Simonds, and they just posted a segment featuring The Food Project. You can watch the video right on the site, or download either the complete video (you can even get it formatted for iPods) or just the audio portion. Thanks to Nina and her team!
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Residents of the city of Boston: we want to build you a raised bed garden!
The goal of The Food Project’s Build-a-Garden program is to get more people in the city of Boston to grow their own food. We’ll build you a garden, and provide the support you will need to grow food successfully.
For more information or to apply for the program, see our Build-A-Garden webpage.
