A++ Employer offers weekly farmer's market - w/Poll
In an effort to promote healthy lifestyles, in the past my employer has sponsored discounts on public transportation, walk-to-work and bike-to-work incentives, on-site fitness facilities, along with a...
View ArticleFarmers' Market
I live in northern Missouri, in a small town, and our farmers' market runs Saturdays from the beginning of May through to the end of October. So we are into the last three weeks. The weather has...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner V. 1.11 - The Stock Market
Soup. The mere sound or mention of the word conjores up images of a blustery day. While it hasn't yet turned blustery in New Jersey yet this fall, our first freeze a couple weeks back propelled me...
View ArticleBREAKING: Libby, Wells win Oscars for best trial performance
(Courtesy of Dead End-tertainment Tonight, "DET") Following last night's Oscars presentation, the Academy of Motion Sickness, uh, Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to award a special...
View ArticleFarm and Biofuel Reports
Chickens and Farm Bills and corn, oh my! Read on to join the ranks of the agricultural in-crowd ...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner?: Tropical Fruits & Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables! They are what our doctors recommend we include in our daily menus to ensure our health. As baby boomers age, more and more people are adding these wonderful gifts of nature to...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner v2.30: Leg of Lamb
My grandpa always considered March 1 the first day of spring. It was the day he gave his yard its first pruning. I'm not as lucky to live in a place where I can start my gardening quite so early. But...
View ArticleIt's a Cold, Hard, Binary World
I normally don't write about politics, I write about food. But maybe we can look at the world the way our Prez and his party's candidates for Next Prez do: a moralistic view of the universe, good...
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Foods You Can Trust Hall of Fame
Two days ago I posted my 08 Food Awards Hall of Shame and since every coin has two sides here's the flip: the best foods you can eat and why. Though it doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell us that...
View ArticleVegetables & Fruits Less Nutitious Than 50 Years Ago?
Ruh-roh:Apparently produce in the U.S. not only tastes worse than it did in your grandparents' days, it also contains fewer nutrients— at least according to Donald R. Davis, a former research associate...
View Article700,000 Reasons To Plant A Garden, Newspaper Seedling Pots, and a Poll
February private-sector job losses are worse than expected, as expected.In the NYTimes:ADP said private employers cut 697,000 jobs in February compared with a revised 614,000 jobs lost in January. The...
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The "White House Organic Vegetables Brand"?
The United States has a bright, classy, and dedicated First Family. Virtually every day brings another example of how we might actually have the real "Best and Brightest" living at 1600 Pennsylvania...
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My Garden, A Picture Diary With Food News
Hello friends! This is a followup diary to Climate Change-Tree Decline and my Obama Inaugural Orchard where I told y'all about how I planted a few fruit trees and vegetables in honor of our new...
View ArticleHealthy, Delicious Cooking (also for Kids)
Everybody tells us how healthy Mediterranean diet is, but I've heard many people complain that they don't know what it really means. Sure, you need to eat vegetables, nuts and fish, but how can we fit...
View ArticleHealthy, Delicious Cooking (also for Kids)-II
This is the second installment of the healthy, delicious plant based cooking series with traditional Eastern Mediterranean/Turkish recipes. This week I'll give you the the promised root vegetable...
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Garden & Flower Pics, Frontline Video Poisoned Waters
These are the best of the pictures I took today in my garden and around my house. I didn't plant most of these flowers so I can't tell ya what they are. But I'll start in the garden, which is all me....
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Garden, Flower, Pootie+Woozle Photos / Crosspost Help Requested
Hi friends. Today was a hot beautiful day here in the peninsula (midwest Bay Area). I'd imagine it got up to 100F which is a little hot for the garden. I took some photos today I'd like to share.First...
View ArticleAs promised: Gardening with droogie
Now that you've all learned, I'm sure, to appreciate one another's differences and be civil to each other, I'd like to open up my backyard to you, O my brothers and sisters, and hopefully teach you a...
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Organic Gardening from Beginners IV
When I was a kid, all I had to do was put a seed into a Dixie cup of dirt and 24 hours later I'd have a full blown tomato plant, unable to support its own bounty of ripe fruit. Or that's how I remember...
View ArticleIndependence weekend: eat local or Trader Joe's? (no Palin content)
Though I have no special plans for the weekend, which I'll spend writing, and teaching online, the fridge was empty and after teaching in Woodside ("over the hill from my Coastside home). Should I hit...
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