TEDxManhattan - Cheryl Rogowski - Being a Family Farmer

Excellent talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxsMSkgqwHw

"Cheryl Rogowski is a family farmer and a McArthur Genius Award winner. Watch her moving talk about sustainable farming from a farmer's point of view."

The theme of TEDxManhattan was Changing the Way We Eat: http://www.tedxmanhattan.org/2011talks/. Looks like lots of good talks.

BTW, all those talks appear to be on youtube.

If you are interested in the cancer / food link this is interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXowWzpi-Y -  Dr William Li - Angiogenesis Foundation: 2010 TEDTalk Update

Hard cheeses are started with bacteria that produces vitamin k2 which fighting cancer with as little as two slices a day.

Papaya, Shrimp, chocolate,  reduces cancer risk.

His original talk is http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html - William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? The food list: http://blog.ted.com/2010/02/10/dr_william_lis/.

I also liked hearing what Melony Samuels group has been doing in Bed-Stuy. Expanding food bank to urban farming and gardening.