Archive for the food Category

Retailers will be highlighted in the third installment of “Farm to Fork: The Oklahoma Food Chain,” a series of community dialogues on local foods sponsored by the Norman Sustainability Network and the Xenia Institute. As the local foods movement has sprouted nationwide, Oklahoma has seen increasing numbers of retailers selling locally produced food. With exciting [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  (405) 309-9119 or info@normansustainability.org When it comes to local foods, many people are familiar with the farmers who produce it and the restaurants and grocery stores that sell it.  Lesser known are the distributors which provide a crucial link between them. Distribution will be the subject of the second event in “Farm [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  (405) 396-6470 or info@normansustainability.org Download a flyer here. With increasing concerns about industrial farming practices, many Oklahomans are turning to local foods. They want to know where our food comes from – that it is fresh, safe, and produced with care for the environment and animals. In response to this need, a [...]

From NewsOK: Grocery store owners are developing an appetite to move into some of the small towns and city neighborhoods where years earlier stores closed after a major discounter arrived, an Oklahoma grocery wholesaler says. “A lot of those markets that Walmart originally came into years ago and put the ‘moms and pops’ out of [...]

Oklahoma v. Big Chicken: When he steps up —in his boots and western suit with his cowboy hat on the table–he will look U.S. District Court Judge Greg Frizzell in the eye and say something like “Your honor, may it please the court.” And with that the trial that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has [...]