Where to Buy Locally-Produced Food

Say you’ve been convinced that buying locally grown meat and produce is better for you, others, and the earth.  Or maybe you just realize that it tastes much better than the industrial, transported-thousands-of-miles food in the supermarket.  Where do you go?
Luckily for us, there are several websites that will help you to find places selling [...]

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Waste Away: Food in the Garbage

There’s miching mallecho afoot in how the world sees and uses food. Some people will be surprised to learn that the world actually does produce enough food to go around – the food crisis is a crisis of distribution, not production.
So what’s happening to all that extra food? It’s being thrown out. [...]

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Palm Oil, Not So Delicious

Palm oil, literally oil from a type of palm tree, has been picked up for use in processed and pre-packaged foods (like snack crackers, cookies, etc.) and cosmetics. It is natural, which seems like a plus, and also helps to extend food shelf life. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that due to [...]

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Helping Africa: Hybrid rather than Genetically Modified Seeds

A friend passed along an interesting article that unfortunately is not available for free sharing entitled “Agriculture’s Last Frontier: African Farmers, US Companies Try to Create Another Breadbasket with Hybrids” by Roger Thurow from the Wall Street Journal.  As I’m sure all of you know, agriculture in Africa has been largely hard-hit due to political [...]

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