According to the Population Reference Bureau, nearly 80 percent of you probably live in an urban area. Some of you may be lucky enough to have a weekly farmers market in a nearby city park or square, but I wonder if you’ve ever thought there might be an actual farm near you. Over the past [...]
Urban + Farming = Oxymoron?
March 31, 2008 By
Food Issues by the Numbers
March 31, 2008 By
13. Maybe Thirteen Will Be the Lucky Number This Time Thirteen states have introduced new bills that would require labeling of cloned meat, reports Natural Food Merchandiser. Bills, such as the one introduced in Kentucky use very clear language, “”No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, have in his possession for sale, or [...]
Urban Agriculturalist: San Francisco Permaculture Guild’s Temporary Gardens
March 30, 2008 By
Urban Agriculturalist is a series on the ways city and suburb dwellers use their land as a food resource. Walking through the landscape of downtown San Francisco a visitor might notice an abundance of empty lots, but it would be a mistake to assume that these are pieces of public property. Instead, much of this [...]
Is There Such a Thing As Good Additives?
March 29, 2008 By
Let’s talk food additives. Even when I go to the health food store and pick up all-natural, gluten-free, sprouted hemp, vegan cookies (okay, especially when I pick up items that have been so worked-over…), I find ingredients on the back like phosphates, lactic acid, or carrageenen. What should I make of such seemingly blatant contradiction? [...]
Green Diva’s Guide to Delicious Living – Huevos Rancheros
March 28, 2008 By
This is one of my favorite meals – breakfast or anytime! I do my best to use local ingredients. We have some happy local chickens that provide wonderful eggs and other than the tortilla, it depends on what growing season we are in as to how local I can be with the rest of the [...]
Livestock’s Long Shadow by David Shaw
March 28, 2008 By
Editor’s note: David Shaw, a participant in the blog project by Professor Simran Sethi’s Media and the Environment course at the University of Kansas, examines the global impact of livestock production. This post was originally published to the course blog on Tuesday, March 15, 2008. Recently, I discovered a report from 2006, entitled Livestock’s Long [...]
A Beefy (yet Beefless) Burger with Black Beans
March 28, 2008 By
Ah yes, the veggie burger. If you’ve ever gone meat-free for a substantial amount of time, chances are you came to rely on this tried and true staple. It’s gotten me through many a company barbecue and airport layover. It turns out though, that most big name veggie burger brands are not actually vegan — [...]
