Some of the most common foods are also the most allergenic. We’ll examine animal-based-food allergies that can be substituted with inspiration from a vegan diet.
ALERT: Washington Set to Make Our Food and Water Less Safe
March 23, 2011 By
Leaders in Washington are proposing to cut food and water safety protections which would put more Americans in jeopardy of becoming sick or even dying from foodborne illness and would severely restrict the ability of municipalities to maintain their drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.
Grow Your Own Food Challenge: Turning Lawn Into Garden
March 23, 2011 By
You might assume that because I work on farms, I know everything I need to know about growing my own food. Unfortunately, that is not the case! As part of our Grow Your Own Food Challenge, I’ll be documenting my attempt to turn my lawn into a vegetable garden. But transforming sod into a workable garden bed is not easy! Here are four organic methods I’ve been considering.
Grow Your Own Food Challenge: Reader Tips
March 23, 2011 By
Let’s grow food together! Here are some tips and inspiration from folks who are already participating.
Vegan Cupcake Recipe: Smoky Tempeh Cupakes with Chocolate Frosting
March 22, 2011 By
My birthday was last week, and on Saturday, a friend and I spent the afternoon making cupcakes for the party that night. We made two sorts of vegan cupcakes: smoky tempeh with chocolate frosting and hummingbird with cream cheese frosting.
Bringing Real Food to the People: The Guerilla Garden Ninjas City Co-Op – EcoLocalizer
March 22, 2011 By
The Guerilla Garden Ninjas City Co-Op is located in Los Angeles. Rivas-Raymer started this food co-op as a way to share and exchange different foods, as well as ideas about how to prepare healthy food, among her local community members. It’s a way to expand the concepts of freeganism directly to the source and freely share with each other.
The End of Intensive Farming Fertilizers? – Planetsave
March 22, 2011 By
Hundreds of years ago, it was common practice for all the sh*t in a town or city to be gathered up each night and dumped on the nearby fields as fertilizer. This provided excellent nutrients for the crops, but it also created a lot of disease.
