Goodles Sold to Barilla for $750 Million, and a Loyal Customer Says the Noodles Already Taste Different:
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One woman paid village women pennies to plant trees, and together they reforested a nation.
In 1977 Kenyan biologist Wangari Maathai began paying rural women a small stipend for every seedling they grew and planted.
Her Green Belt Movement grew into a Nobel Peace Prize win in illion trees planted across Kenya.
Put your money behind small farms on Localize.
Sources: Nobel Prize
In 1977 Kenyan biologist Wangari Maathai began paying rural women a small stipend for every seedling they grew and planted.
Her Green Belt Movement grew into a Nobel Peace Prize win in illion trees planted across Kenya.
Put your money behind small farms on Localize.
Sources: Nobel Prize
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A top MAHA adviser just named names, and a day later the chief of staff was gone.
Calley Means, who resigned as a senior MAHA adviser in October, told Joe Rogan that Susie Wiles blocked food and diet reforms for sugar industry interests.
A day later Trump announced Wiles was would replace her, though no one has tied the two events together.
Skip the Washington food fights and buy straight from a farmer on Localize.
Sources: ABC News 2026, Daily Beast 2026
Calley Means, who resigned as a senior MAHA adviser in October, told Joe Rogan that Susie Wiles blocked food and diet reforms for sugar industry interests.
A day later Trump announced Wiles was would replace her, though no one has tied the two events together.
Skip the Washington food fights and buy straight from a farmer on Localize.
Sources: ABC News 2026, Daily Beast 2026
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A Bronx teacher put a garden inside his classroom, and his students' attendance climbed right along with the vegetables.
Stephen Ritz started growing food with his students in the South Bronx in 2005 and built it into Green Bronx Machine.
By his own count the program has grown unds of vegetables, and daily attendance climbed from 40 to 93 percent.
Shop for vegetables grown near you on Localize.
Sources: Education Week
Stephen Ritz started growing food with his students in the South Bronx in 2005 and built it into Green Bronx Machine.
By his own count the program has grown unds of vegetables, and daily attendance climbed from 40 to 93 percent.
Shop for vegetables grown near you on Localize.
Sources: Education Week
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Maine outlawed every roadside billboard in the state, and it actually stuck.
Lawmakers banned off premises billboards in 1977, and within a few years every one had come down.
In their place, small matching directional signs let any business, including local farms, point drivers + farms near you on the Localize app.
Sources: Maine Legislature, Portland Press Herald
Lawmakers banned off premises billboards in 1977, and within a few years every one had come down.
In their place, small matching directional signs let any business, including local farms, point drivers + farms near you on the Localize app.
Sources: Maine Legislature, Portland Press Herald
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RFK Jr. and HHS just announced the biggest baby formula overhaul in almost 30 years.
The FDA proposed updating requirements for iodine, manganese, vitamin A, and vitamin D, the first full review since 1998.
Four companies control roughly 90 percent of the US formula market, a ed turn one 2022 contamination scare into a nationwide shortage.
Skip the big formula aisle and find independent food brands with Localize.
Sources: HHS 2026, NPR
The FDA proposed updating requirements for iodine, manganese, vitamin A, and vitamin D, the first full review since 1998.
Four companies control roughly 90 percent of the US formula market, a ed turn one 2022 contamination scare into a nationwide shortage.
Skip the big formula aisle and find independent food brands with Localize.
Sources: HHS 2026, NPR
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A Memphis math teacher grew food with neighborhood kids, and a judge ordered the garden torn out.
Shelby County's environmental court cited Adam Guerrero in 2011 and ordered him to cut down his seven foot sunflowers and clear debris.
Thousands followed the case after a petition ad, and weeks later the order was reversed.
Growers like him keep good food close to home, find one on Localize.
Sources: Memphis Flyer, Grist
Shelby County's environmental court cited Adam Guerrero in 2011 and ordered him to cut down his seven foot sunflowers and clear debris.
Thousands followed the case after a petition ad, and weeks later the order was reversed.
Growers like him keep good food close to home, find one on Localize.
Sources: Memphis Flyer, Grist
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One organization has served more than 500 million meals in disaster zones because its rule is simple: show up first.
Chef Jose Andres started World Central Kitchen after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, sending cooks straight into crisis zones.
The group has since passed 500 uch of it cooked by local chefs using food sourced from the area.
Know the farms near you, shop local with Localize.
Sources: World Central Kitchen
Chef Jose Andres started World Central Kitchen after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, sending cooks straight into crisis zones.
The group has since passed 500 uch of it cooked by local chefs using food sourced from the area.
Know the farms near you, shop local with Localize.
Sources: World Central Kitchen
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Tulsa mowed down a woman's edible garden the day after her court date, then a judge threw out her case.
City crews cut down more than 100 of Denise Morrison's edible and medicinal plants, plus walnut and fruit trees, in 2011.
A federal judge dismissed her 2013 suit, and the horticulturist called her yard more than a garden.
Find a grower who can tell you exactly what they planted on Localize.
Sources: KTUL
City crews cut down more than 100 of Denise Morrison's edible and medicinal plants, plus walnut and fruit trees, in 2011.
A federal judge dismissed her 2013 suit, and the horticulturist called her yard more than a garden.
Find a grower who can tell you exactly what they planted on Localize.
Sources: KTUL
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A musician turned a neglected patch of Hawaii into a working classroom.
Jack Johnson and his wife Kim founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation in 2003 to run school gardens that teach kids where food comes from.
In 2019 the foundation built the Kokua Learning Farm on an 8-acre h Shore.
Students and volunteers now plant and harvest food there.
A farm like this one might be near you, Localize can help you find it.
Sources: Kokua Hawaii Foundation, Island Scene
Jack Johnson and his wife Kim founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation in 2003 to run school gardens that teach kids where food comes from.
In 2019 the foundation built the Kokua Learning Farm on an 8-acre h Shore.
Students and volunteers now plant and harvest food there.
A farm like this one might be near you, Localize can help you find it.
Sources: Kokua Hawaii Foundation, Island Scene
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Vermont's governor picked World Bee Day to veto a ban on bee-killing seed coatings, so lawmakers overrode him.
Phil Scott vetoed H.706 on May 20, 2024, then the House and Senate overrode him on June 17.
The law phases out neonicotinoid-coated field crop seeds by 2029, making e to act after New York.
Coated seed is standard on most big farms, so your grower matters.
Ask your grower what's on their seed, find one on Localize.
Sources: Xerces Society, Hardwick Gazette
Phil Scott vetoed H.706 on May 20, 2024, then the House and Senate overrode him on June 17.
The law phases out neonicotinoid-coated field crop seeds by 2029, making e to act after New York.
Coated seed is standard on most big farms, so your grower matters.
Ask your grower what's on their seed, find one on Localize.
Sources: Xerces Society, Hardwick Gazette
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Monsanto sued a Saskatchewan farmer after its patented canola turned up in his fields, and Canada's top court still sided with him on damages.
Percy Schmeiser said Roundup Ready canola blew onto his land and ruined decades of his own seed saving.
In 2004 the Supreme Court of t his crop infringed the patent, but it also ruled he owed Monsanto nothing.
Ditch corporate seed and back a local farmer on Localize.
Sources: Supreme Court of Canada
Percy Schmeiser said Roundup Ready canola blew onto his land and ruined decades of his own seed saving.
In 2004 the Supreme Court of t his crop infringed the patent, but it also ruled he owed Monsanto nothing.
Ditch corporate seed and back a local farmer on Localize.
Sources: Supreme Court of Canada
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Ohio sent a SWAT team to raid a family's home over their food co-op, and the fight reached the state's top court.
Deputies and state agriculture officials raided the Stowers' home based buying club in LaGrange, Ohio in December 2008.
The family says deputies held them at eized meat, computers and a phone over a disputed license claim.
Buying clubs like this get food straight from a farmer, find one on Localize.
Sources: Reason, Farm and Dairy
Deputies and state agriculture officials raided the Stowers' home based buying club in LaGrange, Ohio in December 2008.
The family says deputies held them at eized meat, computers and a phone over a disputed license claim.
Buying clubs like this get food straight from a farmer, find one on Localize.
Sources: Reason, Farm and Dairy
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A Colorado beekeeper found the EPA's own scientists calling a pesticide study unsound, and the EPA kept it on the market anyway.
Niwot beekeeper Tom Theobald tracked down the field study behind the seed treatment clothianidin, used widely on Midwest corn.
A 2010 memo from EPA's study flawed, yet when beekeepers asked the agency to suspend the chemical, it declined to act.
Track down local honey and the beekeepers behind it on Localize.
Sources: EPA, Grist
Niwot beekeeper Tom Theobald tracked down the field study behind the seed treatment clothianidin, used widely on Midwest corn.
A 2010 memo from EPA's study flawed, yet when beekeepers asked the agency to suspend the chemical, it declined to act.
Track down local honey and the beekeepers behind it on Localize.
Sources: EPA, Grist
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A federal judge fined an Amish farmer 250,000 dollars, and it was not for selling food, it was for defying a court order.
Amos Miller's farm in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania sells raw milk, meat and eggs to a private buyers club of about 4,000 members.
In 2021 a judge held him in a 2019 injunction after he kept selling meat that skipped federal inspection.
Buy meat straight from a local rancher on the Localize app.
Sources: Food Safety News
Amos Miller's farm in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania sells raw milk, meat and eggs to a private buyers club of about 4,000 members.
In 2021 a judge held him in a 2019 injunction after he kept selling meat that skipped federal inspection.
Buy meat straight from a local rancher on the Localize app.
Sources: Food Safety News
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Daryl Hannah spent weeks camped in a tree to help save what was called America's biggest urban farm, and got arrested for it.
In 2006 she climbed an almond tree at the 14-acre South Central Farm in Los Angeles.
Land that feeds a neighborhood is worth fighting for.
The farms oo, find them on Localize.
Sources: Time
In 2006 she climbed an almond tree at the 14-acre South Central Farm in Los Angeles.
Land that feeds a neighborhood is worth fighting for.
The farms oo, find them on Localize.
Sources: Time
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It’s official, a reporter tried the new 3-d printed meat from Israel, and she said she wouldn't even feed it to her cat:
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Michigan sent the sheriff and a search warrant after one farmer just to tag his cows, and every test came back clean.
In 2007 Greg Niewendorp refused to let the state test his herd for tuberculosis or fit them with electronic ID tags.
State police waited nearby while the ant, and Niewendorp's cattle all tested negative.
Meet the rancher behind your beef on Localize.
Sources: The Nation, Rural Heritage
In 2007 Greg Niewendorp refused to let the state test his herd for tuberculosis or fit them with electronic ID tags.
State police waited nearby while the ant, and Niewendorp's cattle all tested negative.
Meet the rancher behind your beef on Localize.
Sources: The Nation, Rural Heritage
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Nevada City made it illegal for a single chain restaurant or chain store to open anywhere in town.
City code bans any formula business, defined by matching name, menu, uniforms or decor, in every zone.
Nearby Sonoma and Healdsburg only keep chains off the blocks closest to without chains runs on local owners, find yours on Localize.
Sources: Nevada City Municipal Code
City code bans any formula business, defined by matching name, menu, uniforms or decor, in every zone.
Nearby Sonoma and Healdsburg only keep chains off the blocks closest to without chains runs on local owners, find yours on Localize.
Sources: Nevada City Municipal Code
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Joel Salatin's first plan to farm full time in Virginia was simple: milk ten cows and sell the milk straight to his neighbors.
That plan was flat illegal, since Virginia bans direct retail sales of raw milk to shoppers.
He later wrote an entire book about rules like that, t to Do Is Illegal.
Skip the middleman and find a family farm near you on Localize.
Sources: Mother Earth News, Reason
That plan was flat illegal, since Virginia bans direct retail sales of raw milk to shoppers.
He later wrote an entire book about rules like that, t to Do Is Illegal.
Skip the middleman and find a family farm near you on Localize.
Sources: Mother Earth News, Reason
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