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Shane Crary-Ross spent her childhood summers at farm camp, where her favorite activities were cow milking and bread baking. These days, she studies economics and social work at New York University, and spends her free time gardening, bicycling, and reading science fiction.

Last semester, while researching the National School Lunch Program, I found myself in the [...]

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Aly Marks is a summer intern at the Eat Well Guide. She is a senior at the University of Michigan pursuing a degree in Communication Studies and Italian. Her interests include eating organically, sustainable food policy and hiking.
“Eating locally and shopping at your local farmers’ market is the way to go,” stresses Carol [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Having access to nutritious, whole foods is something many of us take for granted. We can begin each week with a trip to the grocery store or farmers’ market where we’ll find a wide variety of fruits, grains, vegetables, beans and other healthy fare. Finding fresh, affordable produce in urban [...]

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Because I didn’t manage to post the News Feed last week, enjoy an extra dose of food news this weekend, some of it a bit fresher than others.
$20 billion food security initiative announced at G8 World leaders dug a little deeper than expected today, pledging an extra $5 billion in food aid to poor countries.  [...]

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I’ve been meaning to blog about Nathan Winters of follownathan.org since I met him a few months ago on Twitter, where he professed his love for the Eat Well Guide.  Since then, Nathan has embarked on a cross-country bike trip, stopping along the way at small farms, taking amazing photos, shooting tons of video interviews [...]

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Eat Well intern Stephanie Fisher interviewed Asher Burkhart-Spiegel of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project for the Green Fork. Stephanie spends her summers at home in Poughkeepsie, where she enjoys cooking fresh produce, baking vegan goodies, and experimenting with DIY cheese-making. She is working toward her B.A. in journalism and sustainable food systems. Here’s her report.

It’s rare [...]

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Local farmers’ markets are hopping in summer, with a variety of berries abundantly offered. The number of markets in Maryland increased from 78 in 2008 to 90 in 2009 according to Amy G. Crone, an agricultural marketing specialist for the state.  With an upsurge of interest in canning in these times of economic frugality, folks [...]

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If you think type 2 diabetes and obesity are the two biggest health care crises Americans face these days, you’re missing the forest for the trees–literally. Because the roots of all this diet-induced disease lie in two less publicized but even more pernicious epidemics: nature deficit disorder and kitchen illiteracy.
The symptoms include a woeful lack [...]

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As kids, Fred and Stacia Monahan spent their summers working on farms.  In fact, working on the same farm in Connecticut as children is where the two first met. It was only natural that one day would own and operate their own farm.
In 1998 the Monahan’s founded Stone Gardens Farm in Shelton, Connecticut, not far [...]

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