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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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In 2005, the Sampsons opened The Dogwood, a “neighborhood gourmet” restaurant serving new American food made from local, seasonal and organic ingredients whenever possible. But the restaurant’s sustainability went beyond the environment – they embedded into their operations a training program for people recovering from homelessness, addiction and incarceration. The following year, Galen was awarded his own Open Society Institute fellowship to grow that program. Though many of their former trainees are now employed in the Baltimore restaurant industry, the first years weren’t without their challenges.

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Aly Marks is a summer intern at the Eat Well Guide. She is a senior at the University of Michigan pursuing a degree in Communication Studies and Italian. Her interests include eating organically, sustainable food policy and hiking.
“Eating locally and shopping at your local farmers’ market is the way to go,” stresses Carol [...]

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As kids, Fred and Stacia Monahan spent their summers working on farms.  In fact, working on the same farm in Connecticut as children is where the two first met. It was only natural that one day would own and operate their own farm.
In 1998 the Monahan’s founded Stone Gardens Farm in Shelton, Connecticut, not far [...]

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This spring Chef Ted McCormack of Flag Hill Winery and Distillery in Lee, New Hampshire was interviewed by Eat Well Guide volunteer Stacey Hamblett. Stacey is pursuing a graduate degree in holistic nutrition with the hope of sharing with others her passion for healthy food and a healthy planet. Here’s her profile of Chef [...]

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After a combined 20 years working in other people’s restaurants, Dylan and Heidi Stockman decided they’d had enough. “We were used to scraping by working for other people,” Heidi recalls, “We figured we might as well scrape by working for ourselves.” As avid farmers’ market shoppers, they knew they wanted to sell local, sustainable food, [...]

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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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(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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This post was written by San Diego-based Joyce Chai, who joined the Eat Well Guide Field Team this past September as an extern. She is currently a junior at the University of California, San Diego where she studies Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution.
Though I have met quite a few farmers and even visited a few [...]

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Fresh, locally-produced, pastured meat delivered right to your door? In New York City? It’s true! Our friends at Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic meats in the Hudson Valley are a home delivery service in early November to Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island City residents. If you are interested in participating, sign up on their website for [...]

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