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So the First Family’s pulled up a patch of green turf and rolled out the red carpet for that dynamic dietary duo, fruits and veggies. Finally, fresh produce has a friend in the White House (except for beets, which, sad to say, the President declines to eat.)
But where is the Beltway ballyhoo for the third [...]

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Today’s tip comes from Healthy Monday.
Eat Right and Eat Well after National Nutritional Month!
Did you know heart disease is the number one cause of death for both men and women in the U.S.? And that about 2/3 of Americans are now overweight or obese? President Obama is constantly citing the healthcare burden facing our nation: [...]

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Who knows where food comes from? According to this disturbing article from Wednesday’s New York Times, most of the folks who manufacture and distribute food products don’t know where their ingredients come from. (hat tip to Naomi Starkman)
Naked chef to cook for world leaders Sustainable food visionary Jamie Oliver and friends from his restaurant, [...]

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“Until a few years ago, markets were the hot, sexy thing,” remarked Cheryl Rogowski, owner of W. Rogowski Farm in Pine Island, NY, the black dirt region of upstate New York and onion producing capitol of the world. “Now it’s CSAs [Community Supported Agriculture]-everyone wants one-everyone wants to be connected to a farm now.”
It’s tough [...]

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Seed money for start-ups may be evaporating faster than California’s dwindling reservoirs, but this rocky economy is proving to be fertile ground for the seed industry. Cash-strapped consumers, scared by the specter of an empty fridge, are investing in the ultimate low-tech, high-yield start-up: the kitchen garden. The National Gardening Association estimates that some 43 [...]

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Originally posted on Sustainable Table’s Daily Table blog.
Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Create a well stocked larder.
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about replacing conventional items in your kitchen with sustainable ones. Now our guest blogger, Marjorie Taylor, helps to beef up that stock in her posting “A Cook’s Larder.” Keep reading for a delicious [...]

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As we all know, water is essential to life on earth – but our fresh water supplies are continually being threatened by pollution, over-use and climate shifts. To celebrate this vital resource’s impact on so many facets of our lives, and to rally people around the sustainable provision of clean, fresh water to all people, [...]

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Along came a spider Last weekend, employees at a Tulsa Whole Foods found what was believed to be one of the world’s deadliest spiders in a shipment of bananas. Now, scientists are saying it may have been of a more common, harmless domestic variety.
Farmers’ markets boom good for farmers or markets? Local farmers markets [...]

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Eddie at Obama Foodorama broke the story and ABC News has confirmed that the Obamas will install a vegetable garden on the White House lawn as suggested by Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International’s Eat the View campaign, Daniel Bowman Simon and Casey Gustowarow from the WHO Farm initiative (both of which we covered in [...]

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In Southern California (where I live) and throughout most of North America, beets are an ideal winter vegetable. Chilly and wet days have crept up on us these last few weeks in typically-sunny Los Angeles, but the farmers markets and produce stands have been well stocked all season with these beautiful garnet and golden root [...]

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