GoldenApplePress exists to encourage discussions about our food system and how it impacts every aspect of our lives and economy. The site founders have a bias towards food sustainability, food justice, the preservation of our human habitat, and food that's as healthy as it is delicious. We'd like to see this become a meeting place for everyone who's interested what we're eating, how it's being grown, how it's being sold, and how that's working out for us.
Who can post?
You! Sign up for a user account and begin commenting on existing posts or writing your own diaries. The administrators retain the right to delete inflammatory, false, irrelevant, or hateful content, though you're warned that we aren't very hung up about swearing, even if we'd rather the site not sound like it's been taken over by sailors. Just try to be excellent to each other, stay on topic, and remember that passions can run high when people are talking about important issues.
What's 'on topic'?
Lots! Agriculture; including conventional and organic production methods, industry practices, urban gardening and the apple tree in your backyard. Energy and the food system; including transportation, fertilizer production, peak oil impacts, biofuels and cost impacts. Food justice; including food deserts, farm pricing and competition, food assistance, consumer pricing and distribution, land access, labor practices in the food industry and the international agricultural trade. The environment; including land use impacts, water use, agricultural pollution, farmland preservation, biodiversity and habitat impacts. Human health; including nutrition, farm chemical effects, agricultural antibiotic use, disease epidemics affecting livestock and food recalls. The long arm of the law; including the federal Farm Bill, yearly federal appropriations, state-level farm and nutrition policies, regulatory actions and citizen involvement.
There's probably more that got left out, but I think you get the idea. Though as a special note, recipes are absolutely on topic. What good is it if a person can get organic winter squash and kale at the grocery store, but hasn't the first idea what to do with these cheap and nutritious veggies to make them yummy? We think food should be easy, delicious, demystified and fun, which means that it's important to share ideas about what to do with it.
So, welcome!
"If being an affluent society doesn't mean eating well, I can't imagine what it does mean." - Brian Donahue, in "The Essential Agrarian Reader"