Food Chains

These images were taken between August 2011 and December 2012, during the filming of the feature-length documentary film, Food Chains....

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Is Organic Ag Better for Farm Workers?

By seven thirty in the morning, it's already 80 degrees in a potato field in Lamont, in the southern San Joaquin Valley. By mid-afternoon, it will reach 107. The workers moving up and down the rows aren't dressed in shorts and tank tops, though.

David Bacon Jul 6

Getting Tilth-y: A Look at Organic Inspections

This episode features Oregon Tilth's own John Caputo, a senior certification officer and organic inspector, as he travels to Naturepedic for its annual inspection.

Chris Roddy Jul 6

Farm Worker Rights

Farms can support farm worker rights and still be profitable.

Vanessa Salvia Jul 6

IGT Web Extra: Campesino

A short film by Luke McKinley, produced in solidarity with Community to Community and Familias Unidas Por La Justicia, looks at how the people who cultivate, pick, sort, harvest and plant our food is life itself; it is our lives, together.

Chris Roddy Jul 6

Food, Labor and Commodities

As the organic market expands, the cost to consumers is slowly but steadily dropping, making organic food somewhat more accessible to more people. This has been good news for wholesalers, processors and retailers. For farmers — and farm workers — not as much.

Eric Holt-Giménez Jul 6

Organic Cotton Helps Indian Farmers Out of GM Cotton Trap

In Orissa and most of the Indian cotton belt, there is not enough water for irrigation. To plant the seed, farmers like Tarun team up with neighbors.

Marianne Landzettel Jul 6

Membership Spotlight: Lynn Coody

Over 30 years ago, Lynn Coody jumped into the back of a crowded van with a group of women headed to Ellensburg, Wash. for a Regional Tilth sponsored conference for women farmers. Time and again, she would stuff a few essentials into a backpack, roll up her red sleeping bag and join kindred spirits looking to change how we grow our food.

Chris Roddy Jul 6

IGT Web Extra: Food Chains Film Teaser

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it.

Chris Roddy Jul 6

Power Grapes: Cesar Chavez’s Labor Legacy

There on store display lay the perfect package of grapes, so tempting. It being open, I popped one in my mouth. Then a voice came. It said, "No Uvas!" The grape became a looking glass. Its dew became sweat on the young Cesar Chavez's brow as he picked lettuce and beets in the hot sun.

Andrew Rodman Jul 6

Food Justice Definitions

Food justice is often thought of as being a right, or as having an ability to make change all on its own. Is it possible for food justice, itself, to act? Should we expect that food justice can change a broken system?

Jeff Rowe Jul 6

Perspective from a Food Justice Certified Farm

Some years ago I heard about Food Justice Certification and felt like it would be a good fit for our farm. That it would be a good way to let people know that our farm is trying to do things a little different than other farms in regards to labor.

Jordan Brown Jul 6

IGT Web Extra: Hungry for Justice

In 2014, Little Bean Productions produced a short film looking at the Agricultural Justice Project's Food Justice certification program and Jordan Brown's The Family Garden implementation of the certification on their operation

Chris Roddy Jul 6

The Robotic Farmer

The ten-inch metal shunt in my wrist brace imparted the feeling of a robotic weeder arm, as my hand — gripping an Iron Age tool — awkwardly plunged toward the soil.

Erin Volheim Jul 6

Research Highlights Organic’s Environmental and Economic Benefits

In its early years, "organic" was often dismissed by skeptics as a niche marketing term with inconsistent definitions and little science to support its benefits.

Chris Schreiner Jul 6

Out Here in the Fields

The sun was burning and my back was killing me. And with those strawberries juicing in my bag, I knew I was not going to make money that day.

Andrew Rodman Jul 6

2020: Building a Brighter Food Future

Fall 2019: Social Equity

Summer 2019: Hemp

Spring 2019: Human Resources

Winter 2019: Farm Viability

Fall 2018: Social Equity

Summer 2018: Mentorship

Spring 2018: Fibers + Textiles

Winter 2018: Supply Chains

Fall 2017: Social Equity

Summer 2017: True Cost of Food

Spring 2017: Cross-Pollinations

Winter 2017: Transitions

Fall 2016: Food Literacy

Summer 2016: Farm Labor and Social Justice

Spring 2016: Institutions + Food

Winter 2016: Leading Women in Food

Fall 2015: Max Market

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Is Organic Ag Better for Farm Workers?

Getting Tilth-y: A Look at Organic Inspections

Farm Worker Rights

IGT Web Extra: Campesino

Food, Labor and Commodities

Organic Cotton Helps Indian Farmers Out of GM Cotton Trap

Membership Spotlight: Lynn Coody

IGT Web Extra: Food Chains Film Teaser

Power Grapes: Cesar Chavez’s Labor Legacy

Food Justice Definitions

Perspective from a Food Justice Certified Farm

IGT Web Extra: Hungry for Justice

The Robotic Farmer

Research Highlights Organic’s Environmental and Economic Benefits

Out Here in the Fields

Advancing dialogue that supports equitable food & agriculture

SUBSCRIBE OR FOLLOW US #tilthnation