Gigi talks about our new USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsak, his second time around in D.C. and mentions “carbon capture,” commodity crops, and climate change. She suggests recipes from her book that don’t depend on commodity crops: dilly beans, pressure-cooker vegetable stew, roasted vegetables, vegetarian chili, baked garlic, whole roasted cauliflower, avocado guacamole, broccoli guacamole, crispy almonds,…
Tag: USDA
FoodWISE, resilience, farm programs
Gigi Berardi reads some from FoodWISE—on organic, certification and farm programs, and farms contributing to community. As a follow up to previous vlogs, she highlights the USDA’s official, consensus forecast for agricultural markets, known as the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates with Dr. Andrew Novakovic commenting (USDA’s Latest Dairy Forecast, and also on…