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Your food: closest to home is best!
Spring is springing in the Northwest (for folks in the Midwest and Northeast: it’s coming, I swear!!) and thoughts are turning to the garden. This year, why not plant the fruits and veges you love to eat? I’m drooling over Read more
Buy Fair Trade Food and Products
- September 14, 2013
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Buying fair trade gives you assurance that the workers who produced your food and products work in safe conditions and get paid a fair wage. thedailygreen.com article feed Read more
Chipotle Video "Back to the Start" Advocates for Farmers, Food Movement
- August 26, 2013
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This is worth watching. DownToEarthNW.com: Year of Plenty posts Read more
Slow food
- July 24, 2013
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We are not only what we eat, but how we eat. In a world becoming increasingly reliant on fast food that isn’t good for us or the environment, the slow food movement seeks to reverse this trend. Green living tips Read more
Natural Pet Food: What You Need to Know
- July 7, 2013
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Food unfit for human consumption might be unfit for your pet too. Use these tips to buy organic and natural cat and dog foods instead. thedailygreen.com article feed Read more
Chipotle Video "Back to the Start" Advocates for Farmers, Food Movement
- June 25, 2013
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This is worth watching. DownToEarthNW.com: Year of Plenty posts Read more
Food Access Coalition leads discussion about creating a local food system – Wed, 15 Jun 2011 PST
- June 6, 2013
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Local governments create detailed plans for transportation, land use, population growth, education and economic development, but what about food? As a fundamental need, shouldn’t some thought go into ensuring that our community has a sustainable plan for accessing healthy, safe Read more
Hostess declares bankruptcy – Is this the end of the Twinkie food culture?
- April 21, 2013
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Hostess Brands, the makers of Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, and the iconic Twinkie, has gone belly up and filed for bankruptcy protection. It seems they are dealing with the usual challenges of a legacy company limping along with large Read more
World Food Scarcity Spells Trouble for World's Poor
- February 7, 2013
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I wrote a post a few months ago about the role of bread prices in the Egyptian uprising. Foreign Policy has a new article on how rising food prices and increasing food scarcity around the world could mean there is more Read more
Why fast food is more expensive than homemade
- December 9, 2011
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I stumbled across a great infographic from The New York Times that breaks down the cost of two home-cooked meals, relative to McDonald's. It's not too shocking the homemade stuff is healthier but the graphic shows, it's also cheaper. Way Read more