In honor of the first national Food Day, Food+Tech Connect is highlighting 5 innovative ways technology is being used to improve access to fresh, local food. The following selectio[...]
The Public Health Program created an infographic to look at "The Two Sides of the Food Crisis," and to untangle the many factors causing the crisis.[...]
The recent cantaloupe contamination underscores the need for better data about our food’s journey from farm to table. With over 76 million cases of food borne illness, costin[...]
Entrepreneurial Opportunity: There is huge potential for creating recipe, restaurant nutrition and grocery shopping tools that cater to non-English speakers. Additionally, educati[...]
As beef, lamb, and now pork producers in upstate New York, we need to create a market space for our farm. But direct marketing and “finding a market” has been challenging.[...]
In recognition of National School Lunch Week held this week from October 10-14, 2011, the University of Southern California’s Masters of Arts in Teaching Program has develope[...]
The recent “Food Dialogues” - organized and funded by the year old U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance - has a multi-million dollar annual budget, and the membership of some of the [...]
What attracted me to Foodfolio is that it is being used by grandmothers and mothers who want to preserve their recipes for the next generation. And if Foodfolio is helping that ca[...]
There are a lot of important lessons about building a successful online marketplace that can be learned from our experience working with Zaarly to source 20 lbs of grass-fed beef c[...]
When I was a kid in the 80s, my Mom would tell me to eat everything on my plate - because kids were starving in Ethiopia. There came a time when that argument started to seem ridic[...]
We live in a backward world. A world where it is strange to know where our food comes from. Foods that are grown and processed without adulteration have to prove it, while the use [...]
The future of urban agriculture is not vertical, nor even simply horizontal. It is distributed and networked throughout the city. In a growing number of cities, suburbs,and small t[...]
Today, Food+Tech Connect launches the first in a series of monthly interviews with leading food and tech investors. Over the past year I’ve spoken with 100+ food tech entrepreneurs[...]
Mac Magruder had his way, he would be able to control the grazing of his grass-fed herd by GPS. And while the technology for such a virtual fence is on the drawing board, Magruder[...]
The restaurant and dish discovery app space is getting crowded. In fact, I won’t write about another app unless it is powered by some innovative technology or employs interes[...]
Studiofeast's Mike Lee decided to have a little fun during the Hurricane lockdown, asking his twitter followers : "Tweet me your hurricane food items, I'll tweet you back a recipe.[...]
[Editors Note: This is the fourth story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] Exactly how much m[...]
Only one year after launching, semantic recipe site Yummly just broke through to 2 million monthly unique visitors, says CEO and co-founder Dave Feller. What’s been the secre[...]
[Editors Note: This is the third story in a series about meat distribution. Food + Tech Connect will run these stories every Monday for the next several weeks.] In mid July, the En[...]
An interactive Google map created by development shop Small Farm Central has spruced up the new Color of Food directory locating farms and food institutions in communities of color[...]
‘Standards’ and ‘interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a ve[...]
*Jameson is a guest blogger for Food+Tech Connect and a middle school student at Sts. Philip and James School in Long Island, NY.* One in three Americans suffer from obesity[...]