Eating Vegan in Tallahassee

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Tallahassee, the state capital of Florida, is home to FSU and lots of good healthy options for a healthy voyager like me!

Sustainable Eating and Your Connection to Nature

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As humanity faces the biggest challenge it has ever faced – to live sustainably on this wonderful and mysterious blue-green planet – all of our habits and assumptions have come under question. What we eat, of course, has been no different.

Plastics and Their True Impact

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Plastic might seem like more of a general environmental issue than a food-specific issue, but because of the large amounts of plastics involved in food, from packaging to cooking and storage, our food and drink choices directly relate to our plastic consumption.

Monsanto is Having a Bad Month

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A couple of interesting pieces about Monsanto have popped up in the last few weeks, so I thought I’d share them with you together.

Challenge: Name A Cheese

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The folks at Point Reyes Farmstead have created a new blue cheese and they are looking for a name. Can you help?

Grow Your Own Food Challenge: Fall Garden Planning

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Our friends at Sustainablog reminded us not too long ago that it’s time to start planning that cool weather garden, so I’m making a list of what seeds I want to order and start as my container garden transitions out of summer. I thought it would be fun to talk garden planning and see what you guys are planting, too! If you’re working on a fall/winter garden, let us know what’s on the agenda in the poll below!

Big Chicken [VIDEO]

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The Pew Environment Group released a report detailing the environmental impact of ‘Big Chicken’, and the details are grim.