Salad ingredients:

• farm fresh organic baby greens
• farm fresh organic red onio

Since returning from Ethiopia, I've been swamped with re-entry projects. Getting the remaining Ethiopian school projects off the ground along with getting caught up here at Food For Thought have been eating up the hours. So there's been little time to do any writing since my return. Fortunately for me, Chris Treter of Higher Grounds Coffee, idea guy for Run Across Ethiopia and founder of On The Ground, has just written a wonderful blog post summarizing the highlights of the run. Chris and I traveled to Ethiopia three times since January 2010 to make this event happen and he was the critical partner that made it possible. So I don't think I could have said it any better than he has here.e.

Never has Margaret Mead’s famous quote, "Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has" been so accurately demonstrated in my life than in what a group of northern Michigan volunteers are doing with the project Run Across Ethiopia. ]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:12:35 -0500 http://www.foodforthought.net/learn-more/blog/451.html Adam Reid http://www.foodforthought.net/learn-more/articles/450.html Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:24:09 -0500 http://www.foodforthought.net/learn-more/articles/450.html Adam Reid http://www.foodforthought.net/learn-more/blog/why-ethiopia-when-theres-so-much-need.html

As the founder of a company that has a reputation for it's commitment to local and sustainable food, it's no surprise that I'm often asked, "Why are you working on a project in Ethiopia when we have so much need here in our local community?"

It's a fair question. There's no doubt we have needs close to home. The key word here is "community" and how one defines it. For me, I define my community as anyone that is touched by actions I take every day. That can be my neighbor next door or a sugar cane farmer in Paraguay.

1 cup    black walnuts

½ cup   brown sugar

¼ cup   butter

¼ cup   AP flour

Method          

Place walnuts, brown sugar and butter in a food processor and pulse until ingredients have creamed together with the n

2 cups Naturally Nutty Honey Roasted Cinnamon Peanut Butter

1 cup organic butter, softened

1 1/4 cup organic sugar(reserve ¼ cup for rolling cookie dough in)

1 cup organic brown sugar

2 organic eggs

2 cups organic unbleached all purpose flour

1 cup

Ingredients:  3 cups Organic all purpose unbleached flour

1 cup packed Organic brown sugar

1/2 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. organic cinnamon

2 sticks of butter

¼ tsp.

Local food is hot. As we continue discovering evidence of all the social, environmental and economic benefits of eating local, the phenomenon becomes less of a debate and more of a movement. For instance, it seems that almost every day I hear of more and more people who are adopting the 100-mile diet approach to life. The goal of the diet is to eat foods produced within 100 miles of your home.

Thinking about this always makes me wonder, "If it works for food, why not culture?"

Ingredients:

Flour Tortilla's
Food For Thought's Organic Fruit Juice Sweetened Apple Preserves

• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (Organic preferred-unbleached)
• 1/2 cup sugar (Organ

It seems that edible wild plants are all the rage right now.