Sustainable FOOD Colloquium

01/29/2026

These are NOT legitimate Sustainable FOOD Colloquium posts!😢

01/06/2026

Well it looks like the Sustainable FOOD Colloquium FB page has been hacked!

01/06/2026

BUY LOCAL! - BUY SEEDS FROM OUR SMALL FARM!
We have locally-grown vegetable seeds for sale!! Order today.
We are the BZ Permaculture Farm Collective. Our farm is 8 miles northeast of Northport, WA. We have an extensive collection of short-season/cool-weather-aclimated vegetable seeds. We grow all the seeds ourselves using permaculture principles, regenerative agriculture and no toxic chemicals.
Our seed offerings for the 2026 season are available NOW at our online store:
https://bz-permaculture-farm-collective.square.site/
We carefully perform germination tests on all the seeds we intend to offer this year and we add them to the online store as we collect the test results. We get a lot of positive feedback from our customers. We hope you choose us for some of your seed purchases this year and that you have a bountiful growing season. We're here to help if we can.
Your purchase helps establish the Land Trust we are creating to steward our 20 acres permaculturally in 'permatuity.'

12/25/2025

🌎✨ A Rare Win for Nature

According to the 2025 winter monitoring report from Michoacán, Mexico, monarch butterflies have delivered one of the most encouraging signs seen in years. The area of forest occupied by overwintering colonies has nearly doubled compared with the previous season.

After decades of decline, researchers are cautiously optimistic. This increase suggests that recent conservation efforts are making a real difference. Habitat restoration, reduced pesticide use, and coordinated work across Mexico, the United States, and Canada are helping protect the monarch’s iconic migration route.

Field teams report denser overwintering clusters, improved breeding conditions, and more milkweed and nectar plants along the butterflies’ long journey north.

The rebound does not mean monarchs are fully recovered. Populations remain well below historic levels, and year-to-year numbers can still fluctuate. But the trend offers something that has been in short supply for a long time.

A reminder that matters.
When countries work together, nature responds.
And sometimes, it shows us what recovery can begin to look like.

12/24/2025

This FB page seems to have been invaded by Meta?

10/25/2025

05/25/2025

04/22/2025

April 18, 2025 | by Organic Consumers Association This week, we had to make the tough decision to furlough our entire staff to part-time pay while we figure out how to continue our necessary work with half our budget. We are several hundred thousand dollars short of our annual operating expenses, so...

11/27/2024

As we reflect on this season of gratitude, we also want to share a perspective that challenges us to think deeper about this holiday. As we gather and celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s important to acknowledge the holiday’s ties to the myths about the so-called “founding” of the United States. The U.S. was founded on the colonization, genocide, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples who lived and stewarded this land for thousands of years, and that history continues to inform the inequities we see in the food and agriculture system today.
These inequities affect all of us, but especially farmers like Reyna Banteah, the owner and manager of Ts’uyya Farm, an Indigenous, woman-owned and operated farm in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley. Reyna is from Zuni Pueblo, and was a Young Farmers Grant recipient and Vice-President of the Rio Grande Farmers Coalition, a local chapter of our Coalition. Reyna began to pursue farming with the goal of eventually bringing her skills and the food she grows to Zuni Pueblo. Like so many young farmers, however, finding secure access to land has been her primary obstacle. National Young Farmers Coalition

“I always say I would not still be farming without the National Young Farmers Coalition. When I am wondering about this decision and doubting my capacity to continue, I meet with other young farmers across the country who are doing this same work. It reminds me how much I want to be a part of crea...

08/22/2024

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our LOCAL coffee roasters!

08/13/2024

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