Farms News
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Feature How to foster green biodiversity
In 1894 John Muir wrote: "When California was wild, it was one sweet bee-garden throughout its entire length, north and south, and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (13 days ago) 0 comments -
Feature Can Big Beef censor the sustainable truth?
Big Beef doesn't like it when smart people tell the raw truth about the science behind their meat. In fact, a very deep-pocketed cattle rancher in California, where “happy… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (119 days ago) 0 comments- People
- Michael Pollan
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- Vegetarian, Vegan, Factory farmed, Factory farm, Sustainable, Locavore
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- alternet.org (73 comments)
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Feature How to increase consumer responsibility
According to Time author Brian Walsh, more than simply a case of penny-wise/pound foolish, the dangerous game of cheap food production is costing us--big time--both morally and… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (210 days ago) 4 comments -
Feature How to green your shopping
"For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged.… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (220 days ago) 1 comment- Definitions
- Animal testing, Carbon footprint, Carbon offset, Cruelty-free, Eco-friendly, Energy Star, Fair trade, Food, Locavore, Organic, Recycling
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Feature How to buy "green" pickles, part one
Naturally cultured or lacto-fermented foods contain friendly bacteria and enzymes that help digest food in the intestines and help to support the immune system.Lacto-fermented… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (230 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Biodynamic, Eco-friendly, Carbon footprint
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The thing about sustainable chocolate
We'd never pass up a chance at chocolate—not to eat it, not to blog about it. While we're more inclined to keep the former strictly to ourselves (I'll eat every last square… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (252 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Organic, Sustainable, Fair trade, Fair wage
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Demand for organics reaches all demographics
Remember when "they" said that organic food was a specialty market that would never expand past the folks with plenty of disposable income? "They" can eat their (organic) words: a… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (273 days ago) 0 comments- Companies
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Food Inc. cracks open food industry
"Food, Inc.," the food industry exposé that hits early release theaters today, is preparing to burst through the doorway cracked by Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (280 days ago) 3 comments -
Pick your own at a farm near you
It's strawberry time across most of the U.S. Strawberries are easy to pick (only a little backbreaking) and for a few hours' work you'll be rewarded with heaps of the reddest,… | Read the full article ›
By Karen Murphy (294 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Organic
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Feature How to start a kitchen garden
"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself...Henry David Thoreau"One of the most important resources that a garden makes… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (295 days ago) 4 comments- Definitions
- Victory Garden, Organic, Slow Food, Composting
How to green your detergent usage
steve on Beads clean clothes with less water