Food

Help Protect Free Speech by Supporting Bananas!* Filmmakers

January 14, 2012

Recently we told you about the plight of the Swedish filmmakers who created Bananas!*, a powerful documentary which chronicles a courageous fight against the Dole Fruit Company by 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers. Now WG Film, Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård have made a new movie: Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, which recounts their victorious struggle against the giant fruit company. This important movie is about billionaire corporations futilely attempting to suppress free speech.

Riches in the Trash Heap

December 30, 2011

Next time temptation knocks on the door telling you to ship organic trash on a one-way trip to the landfill, think twice about the energy, fertilizer, and compost wealth you’re wasting.

Earache Home Remedies

December 18, 2011

Now that the winter months are upon us, it’s not uncommon to find yourself suffering from a dreaded earache. While there are many causes of earaches- from an ear infection, sore throat, issues with your sinuses or a build up of earwax- there are also many home remedy treatments, found in the kitchen, which may be used to soothe an aching ear.

School Gardens — Growing Healthy Kids

November 29, 2011

Learn about the history of school gardens and how they may be gathering momentum again

Would You Feed Your Child Beaver Anal Glands?

November 28, 2011

The FDA has some strange guidelines when it comes to food labeling leaving consumers in the dark to what they are really eating. If the thought of beetles and human hair in your food leaves you retching, how do you feel about feeding your child beaver anal glands?

Help OlyKraut Grow: Investing in Our Local Food System

November 9, 2011

Much in the same manner that OlyKraut supports and reaches out to many small local farmers in the area, the burgeoning food business is now seeking help from each of you to be able to grow their young company. Sash and Summer have just created a short video to explain why raw fermented vegetables are so very important for our diet, as well as what their growing business now needs in order to thrive.

Natural Cold Remedies

November 5, 2011

Winter is swiftly approaching, and with the cold weather comes cold and flu season. Fighting off a cold or flu virus can be quite a hassle once you have been infected with it, and can take forever to fully recover from. In this article we will look at ways to naturally boost your immune system, as a means of warding off the cold or flu (or both) this Winter.

Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Fiber: What does it All Mean for My Health?

October 31, 2011

There is much talk these days about the importance of a high-fiber diet for good health. You may also have heard the terms “prebiotics” and “probiotics” tossed around in those conversations. But what does it all mean, and how can you incorporate them into your diet in a delicious and healthy way? I personally like to avoid trips to the doctor’s office as much as possible, so keeping in good health is very important to me.

Saving Seeds: Become Your Own Seed Bank

October 27, 2011

Preventing the extinction of a wide variety of food plants is not just romantic and historically interesting, it’s a matter of ensuring a healthy future for humanity. As industrial agriculture becomes increasingly focused on growing fewer and fewer varieties of food plants, home gardeners play an unexpected important role in propagating and saving old varieties of vegetables, fruit, and herbs by continuing to grow them, sharing the seeds, and providing the seeds to organizations such as Seed Savers Exchange.

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: Food Co-ops

October 16, 2011

Want to learn more about what it is like to live in an Ecovillage? Read on to learn about Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage’s Food Co-ops.

Praise Grows for Aquaponics as a Sustainable Food Solution

October 11, 2011

The word, aquaponics, may be foreign-sounding, but the practice is beginning to get the attention of many who see it as one sustainable agricultural solution for an increasingly crowded planet. This is especially true for poverty stricken countries that have limited access to either water or tillable land. Aquaponics systems are even appearing now on rooftops of buildings in urban settings.

Slow Money Gathering Opens in San Francisco

October 11, 2011

The Third Annual Slow Money National Gathering is being held this week, October 12th through the 14th, at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. The conference will explore a variety of topics, including the importance of investing in your own neighborhood, cooperatives and alternative monetary structures, as well as how to create more sustainable interconnected regional economies and small healthy local food systems.

Classie Parker Teaches Canning and So Much More

September 27, 2011

Even if you think you can’t possibly garden or can, Classie Parker’s modeling will prove it’s possible. Classie Parker teaches canning and so much more.

Crowdfunded Sustainable Start-Ups on the Rise

August 27, 2011

I received an interesting email a couple weeks ago on a topic I’m not that familiar with but follow a bit — crowdfunding of green projects and start-ups. As the writer pointed out, “the market for sustainable and locally sourced products and startups is continuing to grow, but at the same time, our current economy is making it harder than ever to raise the capitol necessary to get off the ground.”