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Tomorrow night, the organizers of the Brooklyn Food Conference are hosting a fundraiser dinner to help support the conference, which will be held May 2, at John Jay High School and PS 321. Speakers will include Raj Pattel, Anna Lappe, LaDonna Redmond (who blew our minds at last fall’s World Hunger Year) and Dan [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen…start your engines, tune up your bikes, grab your hiking boots! The Eat Well Guide is challenging you to find good food on the road, wherever your travels take you this spring break!
And for the first time ever, we’re offering PRIZES to spring breakers who plan the most creative, local food oriented trips!
FIRST [...]

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We’ve blogged once or twice about New Amsterdam before, but we could really never say enough about their mission to reinvent the indoor public market as a civic institution in the City of New York.
Their hope (and ours!) is to have a place where butchers, grocers, mongers, and other retail and wholesale purveyors can connect [...]

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Our friends at Just Food, a local non-profit in which aims to build a sustainable food system in New York City, will be hosting their 9th annual Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) conference on Sunday, March 8th from 10:00am to 6:00 pm at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The conference is slated to have workshops and discussions on [...]

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Maybe Jeremy Piven didn’t get mercury poisoning from fish at all — according to the results of this new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Make a New Years resolution for you and the planet (yes you can do both!)
As we welcome in 2009, the opportunity to reevaluate and set goals to improve our lives (and especially our health) presents itself. Luckily, there is one key avenue that will improve your health while keeping the [...]

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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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We’re excited to announce that our own Eat Well Guide has been nominated in the Food category for Ideal Bite’s first annual BIG (Best in Green) award!
Tomorrow night, Ideal Bite will announce winners in seven different categories: Home, Health and Beauty, Style, Food, Fun, Everyday/Living, and Next in Green. Aside from bragging rights, winners will [...]

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A lot of our friends have posted their recipes at the Consumers Union’s local, organic Thanksgiving Challenge. Here is a round up of the ones that are making it nearly impossible for us to finalize our own Thanksgiving menus.
First up, from our good friend and former colleague, Megan Saynisch, whose recently launched Brooklyn Farmhouse [...]

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The feature-length film is screening in LA this Friday, November 14, so if you’re in the area, go check it out at the Aranti Japan America Theater at 9pm. There will be a question and answer session with the filmmaker and guests following the film.

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