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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Make your holiday party a smashing (and sustainable!) success.
Tis the season for gathering with friends and family. If you are hosting a party, it’s important to be mindful of your carbon footprint, keep your expenses in check and be healthy! Even at these tough economic times, it’s feasible to please [...]

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Pop quiz, USDA style The USDA has announced plans to begin random tests for melamine in kids’ foods, particularly those that contain meat and dairy products, throughout the US, to begin in two weeks and last for 12 weeks. (Hat tip to Civil Eater and aspiring farmer Naomi Starkman)
Yes, we can Over at Grist,Tom [...]

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Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is located near St. Matthews, SC, in the Edisto River watershed. The 90 acre farm is a mix of hardwoods and fields, in the sparsely inhabited and beautiful Calhoun County. We chatted with proprietor Emile DeFelice whose mission is to provide you the most delicious pork you have ever tasted [...]

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There’s a budding social movement underway and it’s cropping up in fields and markets across the country–America’s newest generation of farmers are stepping up to the pitchfork. Young, excited and energized they’re beginning their own farming operations, facing many challenges, but also reaping many wonderful rewards.
To celebrate this burgeoning interest in farming, Stone Barns Center [...]

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Word on the foodie street is that President-elect Obama is getting close to announcing a Secretary of Agriculture.  In the sustainable food community, the hand-wringing continues as we wait to hear whether Obama will pick a winner or another Monsanto lackey .
Those who (however wishfully) thought that Pollan might be in the running had their [...]

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