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Once a rare treat reserved for emperors, black rice may be the new brown rice, as it contains high levels of anti-oxidants and fiber.
Continue Reading →Imagine turning on the tap and having nothing come out. Now, imagine having no tap at all. For so many families, clean water is a luxury. Women walk miles every day to gather water for their families to drink and use for cooking.
We’re so fortunate to have ready access to water that [...]
Continue Reading →We have control (mostly) over how our children eat at home, but what is being done in the schools? A new documentary is coming out, “A Recipe for Change”, that examines the Baltimore school system’s plan for improving school nutrition.
Continue Reading →The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the FDA and the USDA participated in a raid on Rawsome, a raw, organic food club in Venice, California.
Continue Reading →I’d been dying to try the elusive black trumpet mushroom, and it didn’t disappoint.
Continue Reading →If you would like to liberate yourself from non-canning guilt along with me, you may want to try this amazing, better than canned raw pasta sauce. The beauty in it is that the two main ingredients (tomatoes and basil) are easy to grow in any sized garden.
Continue Reading →Coffee crops require pretty specific conditions to thrive, and warmer temperatures are endangering the plants in major growing regions. Increased temperatures are also helping a troublesome coffee pest thrive.
Continue Reading →The salmonella outbreak has spurred calls for a mandatory vaccination of hens against the bacteria. But can a vaccine fix the problems of industrial egg production?
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