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Weekly Mulch: Local Food--Where Sustainability Meets Self-Reliance

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, 10 Mile Diet, Sustainable Food, Greenmarkets, Self-Reliance, Resilient Gardener, Urban Agriculture, Roof Farms, Energy Effiencies, Neanderthals, Staple Crops, Local Farms, Megafarms, Local Food, Self-Sufficiency, Agriculture Grants, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Last week, environmentalists and food advocates warily welcomed the news that Walmart plans to expand its ...

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The Value of Food, or Why Sotheby's Will Auction Veggies on September 23

Brian Halweil and Brent Ridge | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Movement, Local Food, Sothebys Auction, Heirloom Tomatoes, Greenmarkets, Csa, Sothebys, Amangansett, Green News
Brian Halweil and Brent Ridge

The auction is a coming-of-age sign for heirloom vegetables: those old-fashioned symbols of food diversity that are just the sort of innovation our dysfunctional food system needs.

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Greenmarket Documentary: From Mountain Sweet Berry Farm To Manhattan (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Farmers Market, Greenmarkets, Cooking, Greenmarket, Greenmarket New York, Mountain Sweet Berry Farm, Documentary, Roscoe New York, Union Square, Union Square Farmer's Market, New York City Greenmarket, Rick Bishop, New York News

Greenmarket has been bringing fresh and local produce to New York's streets since 1976, long before the terms Slow Food, locavores, and "foodies" even...

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Eat Fresh: America's Best Farmer's Markets

Good Magazine | Erica Cerulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Green Markets, Sustainable Foods, Greenmarkets, Healthy Living News

With the number of farmers' markets in the United States climbing comfortably toward 5,000 (up from 1,755 in 1994), there's no denying the national ob...

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