Good Food Awards Intern

Seedling Projects Seeking Good Food Awards Intern
Dates: Nov. 21- Feb 24., 2011/2012
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: Unpaid Internship with copious edible perks
To Apply: Submit Cover Letter and Resume to connect@seedlingprojects.org
Seedling Projects is offering a full-time (40 hrs/week) internship designed for a passionate young person wishing to gain experience at the intersection of food, sustainability, education and [...]

May 10, 2011

Voice of America

US School Tries to Build Healthier Food Culture

An elementary school in Washington, D.C., has launched an innovative program to provide a more healthful food culture for its students.
In a third grade mathematics class at E.W. Stokes Public Charter School, 8- and 9-year-old students are learning a basic math concept; how to create combinations, which in this case includes items like spinach [...]

March 18. 2011

Greenpeace

Pig Business

Tracy Worcester, Marchioness of Worcester and future Duchess of Beaufort, is not your typical English noblewoman. She is an impassioned environmental activist to the core, and she is definitely not afraid to get her hands dirty.
Her new documentary, “Pig Business,” details Worcester’s four-year crusade against Smithfield Foods, Inc., the world’s largest pork producer and processor. [...]

March 8, 2011

Huffington Post

Resistance to Factory Pig Farming Gathers Steam

This week my film Pig Business will have its U.S. premiere on Capitol Hill. As the film’s director, I believe this story comes to the United States at a very timely moment — as unionized workers and other citizens are showing their determination to fight back against being stripped of their bargaining rights, which, I [...]

January 20, 2011

The Atlantic

Tasty, Authentic, Responsible: Inside the Good Food Awards

Last weekend’s Good Food Awards transformed San Francisco’s Ferry Building into a reinvented county fair with artisans from 26 states traveling to collect their prizes and share their wares. At Friday night’s gala, red, white, and blue bunting and a stage framed by the American flag hinted at the organizer’s ambitious national intentions for the [...]

January 12, 2011

The Atlantic

Introducing the Good Food Awards

Today I eat the last of the homemade toffee that’s been tempting my hand since the start of the holiday season. With a stab of regret, I shake the tin in disbelief—all that toffee, really gone? I note the carnage: chocolate boxes emptied, cookie Santas decapitated, gingerbread houses gnawed to their foundations. As I nearly [...]

January 7, 2011

SFGate

Good Food Month to Kick Off with Artisan Awards

Good Food Month, a series of Bay Area events celebrating sustainable food and their producers, gets under way Friday at San Francisco’s Ferry Building with the announcement of the Good Food Awards recognizing the nation’s best artisan food producers.
Almost 800 entries from 41 states vied for best-of-class awards in chocolate, cheese, charcuterie, coffee, beer, pickles [...]

January 4, 2011

Fresh Cup

The Good Food Awards Perspective

When San Francisco-based Seedling Projects hands out the first-ever Good Food Awards on Jan. 14, the event’s organizers will likely breathe a sigh of relief. GFA began as an effort to honor food and drink in seven categories—including coffee—produced with social responsibility and environmental sustainability top of mind. However, over the past several months, GFA [...]

November 16, 2010

SFGate

Good Food Awards finalists announced; lots of locals represented

Last night, the finalists for the first-ever Good Food Awards were announced. Nominations were sent out in August for producers of high-quality chocolate, coffee, beer, cheese, charcuterie, pickles and preserves.
Following months of blind tasting, the panel selected 130 finalists. In January, the winners will be announced.
The full list of finalists is below, and the locals [...]

August 3, 2010

Chow.com

Good Food Awards Ready to Judge Your Jam

Call it the Oscars of pickles. A new food contest called the Good Food Awards is going to be handing out 80 awards to the best-tasting sustainably produced food products from around the country in January. The categories are jam, pickles, coffee, chocolate, beer, charcuterie, and cheese. From now until September 15, products can be [...]

July 30, 2010

Washington City Paper

Not Going Condo: The Farm at Walker Jones

There’s a lot going on around the corner of K and New Jersey Avenue. Sandwiched in between NoMa and Mount Vernon Square, it’s seen tall buildings sprout up on all sides, along a busy thoroughfare eight blocks north of Congress.
Through all that, about a half acre of land has sat grassy and fallow, lending the [...]

July 31, 2010

San Francisco Chronicle

New Awards to Salute Artisan Food Producers

Chefs, restaurateurs and winemakers all have competitions where they are recognized for their work. Now, artisan food producers are getting a contest to call their own. Starting today, nominations are being accepted for the first-ever Good Food Awards, honoring the nation’s makers of high-quality chocolate, coffee, beer, cheese, charcuterie, pickles and preserves.
The judging is for those [...]

May 3, 2010

Civil Eats

Seedling Projects featured in Faces & Visions of the Food Movement: Sam Mogannam

Sam Mogannam is the much-loved owner of San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Market, Bi-Rite Creamery, and founder of 18 Reasons, a community space that invites people to explore art, food, and community. According to a recent article in 7×7 about SF tastemakers, he’s also been called the Mayor of 18th Street on a number of occasions. With his market and his [...]

July 11, 2007

7X7 San Francisco

The Good Life: Sarah Weiner Savors Every Bite

Just because Sarah Weiner gets a biweekly delivery of organic produce—from which she whips up such healthy dishes as Tunisian carrot salad and Indian-style cabbage—doesn’t mean she won’t also relish the grilled spare ribs at her local Vietnamese hole-in-the-wall. And just because her usual elaborate morning routine (invigorating sprint up to Coit Tower from her [...]