Please enjoy this final Food News Feed here at The Green Fork and remember to come back Monday to check out our new blog, Ecocentric, where (spoiler alert!) in addition to daily features, we will be feeding you news briefs about food, water and energy throughout the day, instead of just once a week. Thanks [...]
Leslie Hatfield
Leslie Hatfield is the freelance editor of the Green Fork, and is involved in grassroots and media outreach for Eat Well. She also writes for the Huffington Post and occasionally for Edible Chesapeake.
Perhaps best known by friends and colleagues for a tendency to get star-struck by sustainable farmers and food activists, Leslie's favorite activities include visiting family farms and growing vegetables on her fire escape.
Originally from Washington State, Leslie earned her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, and an MA in Public Communication from American University in Washington, DC. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner, Jaimes, and their cat Bitsy, and dog Belle.
Food News Feed: June 18, 2010
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments
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Green Fork Update
June 17th, 2010 · No Comments
If things have seemed a bit quiet on The Green Fork lately, it’s because the team here has been working toward the arrival of our most ambitious and far-reaching online news project yet. We hope you will join us this Monday, June 21st, when we launch our new blog, Ecocentric, where we will cover food, [...]
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Food News Feed: Friday, June 11, 2010
June 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Mmm…Chicken Among the mind-bogglingly creepy things that find their way into the feed of industrial livestock is arsenic. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Center for Food Safety are among a broad coalition of food and farm groups calling on the FDA to ban arsenic-containing additives from chicken feed. You can join [...]
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Could Oyster Mushrooms Help Clean the Gulf?
June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
This might sound crazy too, but maybe mushrooms would be a better deal than these chemical dispersants. That’s right, mushrooms
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Food News Feed: May 28, 2010
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Troubled Water BP’s massive oil spill has prompted US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to declare a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Organic for the Birds? Word on the street is that birds prefer “conventional” seed, but hamsters like organic food and pesticides are linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in small [...]
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