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Green eggs (no ham). An outfit in Missouri is doing large-scale production of eggs from pastured chicken, and that’s something to crow about. (KC Star)
Shrinking food print. Three questions can lead to greener eating. (KC Star)
Osage oranges. Kate Will celebrates her picnic spot in Osage County in the shade of hedge trees, aka Osage Orange. [...]

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My tax dollars at work. It didn’t get much attention in Kansas, but controversial pharma-food producer Ventria got a nice loan from me and my fellow taxpayers. Now they’re talking an over-the-counter product instead of saving third-world children. What a surprise! (The biggest report in the Wichita Eagle, mere mentions in KC Star, Lawrence J-W, [...]

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I think we’re getting inured to unsafe food, as the salmonella poisoning seems to barely register on the news radar this week, locally or nationally. Here’s some of what is in the local news, food-wise:
Lunch ticket gets punched. Topeka school meal planners wrangle with higher food costs. (Topeka Capitol-Journal) Lawrence schools, too. (LJ World)
New assistant [...]

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Finally, here’s a roundup of some food news in the area, aside from the daily reports of tomato-borne salmonella and rising food cost forecasts due to the Iowa floods.
Going against the grain. Gordon D. Fiedler Jr. over in Salina snags a bushel of wheat in this funny-serious take on eating locally. (Salina Journal)
Pizza cone [...]

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Time to round up food for others, sick cattle, food waste and problem fish.
Farms everywhere but not a bite to eat. That’s an exaggeration, but it’s nevertheless true that hunger rises, especially for children, during the summer, when kids don’t get school lunches. Harvesters helps. (KC Star)
Where’s the beef tests? Here’s an update on mad-cow [...]

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Got a lot of news items this week, and a lot of them are grainy.
Kansas miller stands out. The Stafford County Flour Mills produces a premium (local) product. (Pratt Tribune)
Local freegans. They’ve been spotted in Lawrence, according to the KC Star.
Biosafety Research. K-State’s got it. (High Plains Journal)
Peas, please. WIC finally helps recipients buy fruits [...]

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