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Eve’s Eat Well Recipes: Quick Coconut Vegetable Curry

August 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Although the recipe below calls for green beans, kabocha squash and chard (since those are the things we’d received in our produce box this past week) you could just as easily substitute spinach or kale for the chard, turnips or carrots (or both) for the squash, add some potatoes, etc., etc. Likewise, though I’ve listed curry powder below, you could toast your own spices if you’re a purist or you could also use one of the Thai curry pastes with delightful results. The basic concept is very flexible so feel free to experiment.

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Don’t Let a Little Soil Contamination Keep You from Gardening: Why You Shouldn’t Panic if you Find Lead in your Garden’s Soil

August 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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.
When I first looked at my current apartment, what I loved about it most [...]

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The Dairy Debate – a Snapshot of Raw Milk Legislation

April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The national debate over food safety and the right to choose what you eat continues, and as it has been for the last few years, raw milk is right in the thick of it. Raw milk is milk from cows, sheep, or goats that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Pasteurization kills the bacteria in [...]

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Just Food’s CSA in NYC 2009: Growth We Can Believe in!

March 25th, 2009 · No Comments

“Until a few years ago, markets were the hot, sexy thing,” remarked Cheryl Rogowski, owner of W. Rogowski Farm in Pine Island, NY, the black dirt region of upstate New York and onion producing capitol of the world. “Now it’s CSAs [Community Supported Agriculture]-everyone wants one-everyone wants to be connected to a farm now.”
It’s tough [...]

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HBO Premieres Death on a Factory Farm

March 12th, 2009 · 12 Comments

Kerry Trueman is the co-founder of EatingLiberally.org, a netroots website & organization that advocates sustainable agriculture, progressive politics and a less-consumption driven way of life. Foodie, blogger & edible landscaping enthusiast in NYC’s West Village and the Hudson River Valley.
The pork industry’s quaking in its collective manure-encrusted boots over HBO’s upcoming documentary Death On [...]

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Fresh Food in a SNAP! Getting healthy eats onto more people’s plates in tough times

January 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Regina Rae Weiss has a graduate degree in social policy and more than two decades of experience as an advocate, analyst, writer and organizer for nonprofit agencies and elected officials. She is communications director for Eat Well and several other programs that promote an environmentally sound, socially just and sustainable future.
With the U.S. economy [...]

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The Vegetarian Chronicles: 14 Days

January 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’m often accused of being a creature of comfort, and I own that. I am. I fear change, so giving up meat has been difficult.  Uncomfortable, even.  I’ve shelved my repertoire of soul-satisfying recipes featuring meat as the main attraction. No more bolognese, roasted chicken or (gulp) bacon.
Oh Bacon, I miss your bacony-ness!
All the rationale [...]

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Fishy Choices

January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Pooja Mottl is the founder of a new blog called Breaking Green, which provides breaking news on food sustainability from mainstream media sources from around the world as well as weekly commentary and analysis.

If you had an inkling that fish farming may be picking up the pace, you are on to something. As global seafood [...]

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Wired presents: How Science Will Solve the Next Global Crisis

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This post was written by Pooja Mottl.
Food is getting some tech-savvy street cred as Wired magazine puts “The Future of Food” front and center in its November 2008 issue.
The magazine dishes about why the chemical age of agriculture is “running out of juice” at a time when demand for food continues to soar and output [...]

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Dispatch from Anchorage: Brussels Sprout and the upcoming winter

October 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments

This guest post is from Alison Arias, a South Anchorage Farmers’ Market reporter and co-owner of Rise & Shine Bakery, who also keeps a great food blog calls Alison’s Lunch. She sent this last week and tells us that there is 5 inches of snow in Anchorage, but the farmers still have brussels sprouts [...]

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