Alicia and Joshua Davis never intended to become full time farmers. The husband and wife duo both have engineering degrees from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. However, when Joshua discovered aquaponics, a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish supplies the nutrients for plant growth, which in turn purifies the water, the…
Read MoreSTLFPC Spotlight on Matt Even of Gateway Greening
What part of the food system do you work on? Community Development, Education and Access. We are a community development organization that uses the power of growing food to change people’s lives and communities. Working with small children to adult populations we try to serve all demographics while focusing…
Read MoreLocal Food Hero Spotlight on Deidre Kelly of Seeds of Hope Farm
When did you start farming? I’m not actually a farmer per se, but rather a farm educator. I run all of the youth programs at CAASTLC’s Seeds of Hope Farm, with our teen employment program being the bulk of what I do. What is your background? I was raised in Southern California and attended college…
Read MoreSTLFPC Spotlight on Lucas Signorelli of Metro Market
What part of the food system do you work on? I work for the St. Louis MetroMarket which is part of the grocery/retail section of the food system. The MetroMarket bus is a City Transit bus converted into a mobile health food store. The purpose of the bus is to bring healthy, cheap, locally sourced…
Read MoreThoughts on the River
I was fortunate to be invited to speak at a July 8, 2017 event at Central Print in St. Louis. It was organized to introduce a new river advocacy and resource book by Cole Williams, an author from St. Paul, MN. The book is titled Hear the River Dammed: Poems From the Edge of the…
Read MoreA Spotlight On Missouri Wildlife
From the nine banded armadillo to the spiny softshell turtle, Missouri is home to over 70 species of wild mammals, 200 species of fish, and over 400 species of birds. You’ve probably seen a variety of different animals scurrying through your backyard or grazing peacefully on your morning hike. Here at MCE we’ve picked out…
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