**Article of the Week**
Can the Excuses By TARA MORGAN
Eating local in the winter can be easy with some preparation.  Idaho's Bounty is mentioned!

The Food Issue:  Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN
What the next president can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.

Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town By MARIAN BURROS
Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of Hardwick, Vt., are betting on farming to make it the town that was saved by food. 

An Urban Farmer Is Rewarded for His Dream By BARBARA MINER
With a $500,000 “genius grant” awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Will Allen of Growing Power, in Milwaukee, hopes to take his farm off the grid.
This week's article actually isn't an article.  There is some good news in the final Farm Bill that has finally been passed.  Here's a quick summary and check out http://www.sustainableagriculturecoalition.org/ for an extremely informative website.

Change We Can Stomach By DAN BARBER
Farming has the potential to go through the greatest upheaval since the Green Revolution, bringing harvests that are more healthful, sustainable and flavorful.

Love for the Local  By MELISSA DAVLIN
Local-foods trend brings southern Idaho back to its roots.

Is local food really miles better? By ROBERTA KWOK
Many of us now count "food miles." But are local fruits and veggies really more carbon-friendly than produce at the supermarket?

The Worst Way of Farming Editorial
As new reports make it clear, the efficiency of industrial animal production is an illusion, made possible by prisonlike confinement systems.

The Food Chain:  Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Never has food moved around the world at the speed or in the amounts it has over the last few years. Now, many say it is time to make shippers and shoppers pay for the resulting pollution.

Supermarket Chains Narrow Their Sights By MARIAN BURROS
Supermarkets are beginning to compete with farm stands and farmers’ markets for a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Grains Gone Wild By PAUL KRUGMAN 
How did the food crisis happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy.  

Drawing up a Map for Food Sustainability by Corire Brown
Can 'sustainable' defined hundreds of different ways?

Organic farming gaining grounds in the area By Aldrich M. Tan
Some farmers are foregoing organic certification, even though they follow organic farming methods.

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