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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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Want to mitigate climate change, reduce green house gasses and protect endangered song birds, pollinators and the native grasslands they inhabit? Support local grass-fed beef!
Okay, so the logic behind raising or eating beef as a means to reduce greenhouse gasses sounds flawed. Meat-eaters can get a lot of flack and finger-wagging for contributing to [...]

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As Kerry Trueman pointed out earlier this week in her post about young farmers (and would-be farmers), there are a lot of them out there, but most lack the funding to realize the dream of contributing to a cleaner, greener, more sustainable food system. While some may be inclined to give up, others get [...]

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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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(2007 floods in Centralia/Chehalis, photo courtesy of Nate Ritter)
There was widespread flooding throughout the Pacific Northwest last week, as dramatic rainstorms followed on the heels of the record snowfalls that closed out 2008. This is the third consecutive winter to bring major floods to the valleys holding much of the region’s agricultural land.
Fortunately, many farmers [...]

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Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork is located near St. Matthews, SC, in the Edisto River watershed. The 90 acre farm is a mix of hardwoods and fields, in the sparsely inhabited and beautiful Calhoun County. We chatted with proprietor Emile DeFelice whose mission is to provide you the most delicious pork you have ever tasted [...]

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Ahoy! If you are in NYC this weekend, head down to Croton Point Park and check out the Clearwater Festival. It’s going on from 10am until dusk both Saturday and Sunday on the shores of the Hudson River, and highlights will include live music and singalongs, camping, boat rides, and the Clearwater Environmental [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Take a hike! Hiking is one of the most enjoyable forms of exercise, and unless you are flying or driving long distances to get to the trailhead, it’s one of the greenest, too. If you live in an urban area with a lot of smog, it’s also a [...]

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(clockwise from left: NOFFN team members Pam Broome, Lisa Mohr, Phillip Soulet and Kris Pottharst)
As I mentioned last week, I really fell in love with New Orleans during the short time I was there last month. I left there convinced that for all its problems, the town (and surrounding region) is full of [...]

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