Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
Spring is here. In order to eat seasonally your food focus should be shifting to tender, leafy vegetables that represent the fresh new growth of this season. The color green is associated with spring, which is a time of renewal and refreshing, vital energy. The greening that occurs in springtime should be represented by greens [...]
Recent data showing sugar’s rising popularity over high fructose corn syrup is good news, right? Not if that sugar is genetically-modified. In fact, if you’ve purchased beet sugar recently, there’s a very good chance that you’ve unintentionally consumed a genetically-modified product. Industry statistics show that more than half of the sugar beets grown in the [...]
We’re all familiar with the numerous benefits that go along with eating more meatless meals: You can reduce your impact on the environment, improve your health, and save some money along the way. Plus, vegetarian and vegan meals just plain taste good! The idea of Meatless Mondays are nothing new, but is it something that [...]
One of the biggest challenges to getting people to eat healthier, especially kids, is the perception that the food’s just not going to be as tasty as fast food that’s loaded with sodium, bad fats, cholesterol and refined products. The key is to make the food taste absolutely fantastic. Try this recipe for broccoli, for [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a contribution from one our content partners, Divine Caroline. By Patti Ghezzi for DivineCaroline.com In an effort to live green and eat healthfully, I invested in a local farm. With my year-long Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership, I paid a farm a lump sum at the beginning of the growing season [...]
No garden would be complete without its own natural recycling system, a compost pile. Without a way of dealing with compost, weeds and scraps are waste. But why create more trash when you can turn your garden and kitchen waste into valuable soil-building fertilizer? One of the first steps to starting an organic garden should [...]
Florida’s new “Buy Local Orlando” initiative, set to launch May 1, conjures up pleasing images of farmer’s market produce and goods hand-crafted by local artisans. With the words “buy local” in the program’s title, it makes sense to assume that the participating merchants are locally-based. The widespread locavore movement, after all, is just that: local. [...]
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Jennifer Kaplan is the founder of VineCrowd.com and the author of Greening Your Small Business (November 2009, Penguin Group (USA)). She is adjunct faculty in marketing at Goldengate University and is also totally stoked have been named one of The 16 Women You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business.
Jessi Stafford is a 20-something attempting to be a vegan on a recent graduate's budget. She currently writes for Vegan Mainstream and The Next Great Generation and graduated in 2009 from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Tanya Sitton is an ecovegavore, messy chef, green girl, food revolutionary, and general free-thinkin' rabble-rouser. Hi!
Who is Urban Artichoke? I'm Patricia Larenas, a writer and dedicated gardener living in Silicon Valley, doing my part to heal the planet one garden at a time. I recently left my career in the tech sector to dig in the dirt full time- and write about it.
