All posts filed under Farmers And Makers

  • Kiss The Ground Movie Review by Producers Market
    November 6, 2020

    Kiss the Ground: Movie Review by an Industry Specialist

    Kiss the Ground is narrated by Woody Harrelson and features a collection of cultural influencers, celebrities, scientists, and entrepreneurs all sharing about the importance of soil and the solution for the future known as regenerative agriculture.
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  • The Faces Behind the Food: Why Transparency Matters
    October 21, 2020

    The Faces Behind the Food: Why Transparency Matters

    In a new stories series, The Faces Behind the Food, we will explore where social justice fits into our agricultural systems.
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  • Regenerative Organic Certification: The Producers Market Vision
    October 7, 2020

    Regenerative Organic Certification: The Producers Market Vision

    If we truly want agriculture to be the greatest solution to combat climate change through carbon sequestration in soil, forests, and biological corridors, then we must link the desire of consumers to purchase regenerative products with a marketing value proposition and certification that can be trusted.
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  • Tropical Forestry Crops
    September 24, 2020

    Tropical Forestry Crops

    When we pause for a moment and begin to observe nature, we quickly realize that the perfect cycle of food production often already exists in the forest. Within this ecosystem, high-quality organic food outputs can simultaneously exist.
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  • Blockchain traceability with StoryBird Food Transparency App
    September 17, 2020

    Scaling Blockchain Traceability in Consumer Products

    Innovative, consumer-focused brands will drive blockchain traceability for consumers as a source of differentiation, demonstrating their superior sourcing and supply chain practices.
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  • Producers Market Spotlight: Michoacan Organics
    August 27, 2020

    “Farming For Life” at Michoacan Organics

    “Farming for Life” practices at Michoacan Organics in Mexico profoundly affect the quality, nutritional value, and antioxidant properties of their avocados. A producer who is farming for life will use everything available to enrich the soil, which creates amazing fruit that nourishes consumers in mind, body, and soul.
  • People-Gathered-around-the-Campfire
    August 20, 2020

    Sharing The Digital Campfire

    When boiled down to their salt, social media and the concept of digital campfires are all variations of the same theme: human connection and relations.
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  • A Promising Initiative to Empower Women in Colombia
    August 11, 2020

    A Promising Initiative to Empower Women in Colombia

    “Peaceful Opportunities - Rural Women” (Oportunidades Pacíficas - Mujeres Rurales), is supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), as well as the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). This holistic approach to empowerment supports women to build secure livelihoods as agents of change, leadership, and transformation in their communities.
  • StoryBird Transparency App Consumers
    July 15, 2020

    A Transparency App to Empower Consumers

    StoryBird is important because it is a transparency application that reaches the consumer directly. It provides a scalable model to engage consumers with validated information about their products and producers.
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