Seven Great Questions to Ask Your Farmer
Most farmers who work farmer's markets and farms stands are proud of what they produce. And many want to tell just how they do it.
Most farmers who work farmer's markets and farms stands are proud of what they produce. And many want to tell just how they do it.
causecast.org | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
With more than 4,800 farmers markets of various sizes already established in the U.S., there's a huge demand for dedicated individuals to make these e...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 10.28.2009 | Style
As a child growing up in the urban sprawl of Queens, New York, I dreamed of castles; so I wonder, what do children in Tuscany dream about? I'm guessing it isn't Queens, New York.
Louise McCready | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.
Eve Solomon | Posted 10.02.2009 | Green
In honor of fall and apple picking season, HuffPost Green thought we'd put together these beautiful photos of some apple orchards. We hope they inspir...
nytimes.com | CHRISTINE MUHLKE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Three years ago, [publisher Judith Jones] started raising cattle. Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they...
Timothy LaSalle | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green
Absent from the Global Harvest Initiative was an honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture to play a leading role in actually feeding people.
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Why hot dogs? They are the great uniter. And if you can convince someone that the organic version of his or her favorite food is not only great, but better, then I think that's success.
Timothy LaSalle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Even atrazine's advocates do not deny the toxicity of the chemical outright -- it is, in fact, a substance created to kill. The legal pollution in our water has unacceptable human consequences.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
Wednesday, Organic Nation TV released a new video detailing an aquaponics operation in Flanagan, Illinois. Dorothee Royal-Hedinger writes, Myles Har...
Ashley Koff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
"No system is perfect, but organic is by far the best option we have today, far surpassing any other system both in methods and integrity," says Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager for Nature's Path Foods.
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
Sowing the seeds of the right approach to farmland preservation today will enable more of us to reap the bounty of locally grown produce long into the future.
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
I studied food and went to local markets wherever I traveled. I learned all on my own that simply prepared, fresh, local, and organic foods taste best.
Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Live in a big city? Want to grow your own garden? Then tune in to Grist's AskUmbra to find out how to grow your own window farm in an urban environmen...
Timothy LaSalle | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
You can rest assured that the organic food you bought today is every bit as beneficial for you and the planet as it was three days ago, despite a new review that claims otherwise.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Struck with the urge to build a garden but with no land to grow it on, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis (co-creators of the film King Corn) of Wicked Delica...
Graham Hill | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Scientific research is of course important. But let's not let it blindside us from the glaringly obvious fact that eating and buying organic is healthier in many common-sense ways.
Wesley Epplin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago
Chicago is even closer to beating out the likes of New York and San Francisco in officially resolving to help both the the planet and their citizens by encouraging more sustainable, healthier food options.
Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green
This week a group of organic farmers is calling for a nationwide boycott of all H.P. Hood branded products because of what they're calling "unfair bus...
Maria Rodale | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
In laboratories across the globe, seeds are being captured, submitted to intense and painful torture (too graphic to describe here), and held prisoner in a scheme for world food domination.
The Atlantic Food Channel | By James McWilliams | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
Small sustainable producers will likely never have the same investment pull as a multinational wind energy conglomerate. But there's ample room in the...
Samuel Fromartz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
Writing in 2005, I concluded Organic, Inc. by saying I didn't think organic food would be more than a niche in the overall food market and that the factions within it might well blow it apart. Sadly, in the midst of a deep recession, both assertions seem to be playing out.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
I have something in common with Michelle Obama, a brand new vegetable garden in my back yard. Mine was started by my 21 year old son, home from colle...
New York Times | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
The sustainable garden with the most exclusive real estate in Washington is no doubt the one at the White House. The sustainable farm with the most ex...
Julia Moulden | Posted 07.21.2009 | Living
New Radicals are appearing in each field, every sector, and around the world.
David Becker | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green