EmilyAviles

For the founder of the Fair Food Network, fixing our broken food system means going beyond eating local and organic foods. In Fair Food, Oran B. Hesterman firmly argues this vision: "It’s not unimportant to focus on what you’re doing in your kitchen," he writes. "But it’s equally important to move beyond your refrigerator and engage as a fair food citizen."

Being a fair food citizen involves redesigning the entire food system. The way Hesterman sees it, we need to adopt new public policies that "will catalyze more local and regional production, support more local and regional food businesses, encourage farmers to grow their food in more environmentally responsible ways, and provide everybody, no matter in what zip code they live, access to healthy and fresh food."   Read more...

Surfboards. Sleeping bags. Wet suits. Hobo stove. Ukulele. Camera. Surfers Ryan Burch and Cyrus Sutton piled all this stuff - along with just a few other minor provisions and no money - onto their homemade bamboo carts to happily walk 30 miles down the coast of San Diego, California, from Encinitas to Point Loma.   Read more...