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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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Every farmers’ market is different. The vendors and clientele vary, of course, but the setting–the unique backdrop to each event–also colors how it feels to be there, as well as the crowd that attends.

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A few weeks ago, I made a bittersweet last trip (for awhile, anyway) back to New York to meet with the team at Eat Well.  While I was there, EW new media guru Karen Kanan Correa and I trekked down to Tribeca to visit Cate Bruce-Low, aka Tribeca Yummy Mummy.  A former chef and present [...]

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This September the federal Child Nutrition bills which cover the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, will be up for evaluation and amendment during the reauthorization process. This window of opportunity arises every five years for lawmakers to improve upon child nutrition programs. The nation’s burgeoning childhood obesity epidemic is forcing health leaders and politicians [...]

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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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Aside from Earth Day, today marks the Green Fork’s one-year anniversary. That we launched this blog one year ago today (with 20 Ways to Green Your Fork) is no coincidence — the team at Eat Well, along with a growing number of consumers, are  concerned about how our food choices impact the environment.  Social justice [...]

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Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) hosted world-renowned author, researcher and ecological activist Dr. Vandana Shiva on Tuesday for their 9th Annual Dodge Lecture.  I live in Baltimore, so I was able to attend and came away as impressed and inspired by Dr. Shiva as I was when we saw her at Slow [...]

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This past spring I had the pleasure of visiting North Creek Farm in Phippsburg, Maine, just as the first summer vegetables were starting to pop up through the soil. This little farm is located just down the road from Popham Beach State Park and the Morse Mountain Nature Preserve, so it’s a great place to [...]

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This post comes to us from Kai Olson-Sawyer, the Water Program Manager at H2O Conserve. For more information on water conservation, water education, and to check your “water footprint,” go to www.h2oconserve.org.
When you think about food, do you think about water? As more people question where their food comes from, how is it grown, [...]

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Finally some food news that involves neither mercury nor salmonella! Originally posted on Garden of Eatin’ by Eve Fox, who was kind enough to share with us and is lucky enough to work upstairs from Amanda’s brilliant new green, healthy fast food restaurant (you heard me!) in Berkeley. You can bet we’re checking this [...]

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