Tag Archive | "local"

Healthy and Eco-friendly Food Terms and What They Mean

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Healthy and Eco-friendly Food Terms and What They Mean

When it comes to eating healthy or eco-friendly, it can be hard to understand what all of those labels mean. Just taking the time to inform ourselves of what they mean can help us next time we are choosing our food when shopping.

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Grow Your Herbs and Vegetables With or Without Land

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Grow Your Herbs and Vegetables With or Without Land

Whether people want to be more eco-friendly, spend less money on food, or just be more healthy the one thing they almost immediately consider is growing their own foods. Herbs, vegetables, fruits can all be grown fairly easily with the right conditions, but how to grow them if you don’t own your own land?

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Cheese as good as Mother’s Milk!

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Cheese as good as Mother’s Milk!

On one end of the “weird” spectrum, a New York chef is making cheese that’s as good a mother’s milk! No, really! Chef Daniel Angerer and Lori Mason own Klee Brasserie, where they specialize in natural, local, and sustainable foods. They are also the parents of a newborn, which leads to the reason of how they came up with the idea for breast milk cheese.

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Too Many Farmer’s Markets?

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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Too Many Farmer’s Markets?

Who would have thought that there could be too many Farmer’s Markets?

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Seasonal, Local, Winter Foods

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Seasonal, Local, Winter Foods

Local food is usually associated with farmers’ markets, spring, summer and autumn. Winter is unfortunately forgotten thanks to snow, freezing cold and the complete lack of greenery. How can we possibly find local, fresh foods during these cold months other than to forgo the whole “local’ thing and have it imported from other parts of the world/country?

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