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To help clear the confusion, our friends at Food and Water Watch have supplemented our ongoing effort to collect information about places where you can purchase sustainable seafood. They have provided the Eat Well Guide an additional list of wholesale markets that sell sustainably caught seafood. To find these markets listed go to the advanced search page and check the box for “sustainable seafood” under products.

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Q. What’s the difference between a pigeon and an investment banker?
A. A pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW.
Don’t laugh–bird poop’s a precious resource. I dispense pellets of Peruvian seabird guano to my gardening friends as if they were Pez, because, as the Worm’s Way gardening supply catalogue explains, “There is nothing like [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
“If we went a day without meat we would rediscover vegetables!” These are the words of best-selling author and food activist, Michael Pollan, on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show.
Pollan has lately been championing the virtues of going meatless. On the Earth Day episode of the Oprah Show, he said the easiest [...]

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Organic dairy farmers milked dry As dairy prices tank, the USDA has proposed rules “meant to close” loopholes in organic dairy standards that may give industrial organic producers an unfair advantage over smaller, grass-fed producers. Meanwhile, Farm Aid is helping folks get organized.
Getting cultured BoingBoing co-editor Xeni Jardin guest posts a homemade yogurt how-to [...]

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After a combined 20 years working in other people’s restaurants, Dylan and Heidi Stockman decided they’d had enough. “We were used to scraping by working for other people,” Heidi recalls, “We figured we might as well scrape by working for ourselves.” As avid farmers’ market shoppers, they knew they wanted to sell local, sustainable food, [...]

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