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As Mother Earth Always Says: Eat the Seasons
When you don't have a local farmer friend or farmer's market to guide you, it's hard to tell what vegetables and fruits are local and in season. Lucky for me, New York City has great community farmer's markets that I frequent to pick up...
Posted: Mar 04 2008, 10:10 AM by lizadeguia | with 3 comment(s)
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Soil: Going...Going...Almost Gone??
Here's something I never thought about: The Earth is running out of soil! Yep, it says it right here in my Discover magazine. There's a study out that concludes that current farming practices are causing the soil to erode more quickly than new...
Paging Broccoli Obama and Celery Clinton
A round of applesauce for this creative video released by PETA and Free Range Studios this week covering the 2008 "Road to the Greenhouse". The online only debate replaces the U.S. presidential candidates with vegetable counterparts to promote...
Something's Fishy...And I'm Talking About Fish
Flipping through my New York Times Magazine 7th Annual Year in Ideas issue I learned about a new seafood product that just might benefit diminishing wild fish populations: "sea-flavored" fish, or farmed fish manipulated to taste like wild fish...
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