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    Guster Challenges Fans to Eat Well this Summer

    June 7th, 2010 Posted by Sophy No Comments

    This piece by Erin McCarthy was originally posted on the Green Fork.

    The Green Music Group (GMG), a project of Reverb, has launched a series of earth friendly calls-to-action this summer. Starting tomorrow, Guster is challenging fans to use the Eat Well Guide to find and eat at least one meal using local, [...]

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    Spotlight on Rhubarb: Grandma’s Favorite Pie Plant Gone Wild

    May 27th, 2010 Posted by Sophy No Comments

    Rhubarb is a plant that holds memories of grandma and it was always my grandmother Winkie’s first homemade pie every spring. She had patches of the stalky green growing out behind the big grey house where she would pick it and transform it into the mysterious creation cooling on the windowsill. It was the adult [...]

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    Growing Veggies on Walls: Teens Green Bronx

    May 13th, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    Here is another post from the illustrious Lorna Sass, originally published at Lorna Sass at Large.
    Remember when President Jimmy Carter visited the blighted south Bronx, with the result that images of burned-out houses and trash-stewn lots flashed across TV screens all over the nation? That visit and the movie, The [...]

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    Save the Date, New Yorkers: May 15th — Eat Well’s Tour de Farmers’ Markets

    May 5th, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    This post was originally posted on the Green Fork by Chris Hunt.
    Here in New York City, spring has arrived in full force; the leaves have returned, the cherry trees have blossomed, the parks are bustling, and legions of pallid hipsters have cautiously reemerged into the sun.  Life is [...]

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    The Great Bake Sale Debate

    April 2nd, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    As reported in a previous post, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) recently passed a regulation banning home baked goods from being sold in schools for fund raising purposes with the exception of one PTA run bake sale per month. Instead, parents and students are allowed to choose from 27 approved snack items [...]

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    The Faces of FRESH: Sustainable Saints, or Loam-Loving Luddites?

    April 1st, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    This post by Kerry Trueman was originally posted on The Green Fork.
    Have you heard the truth about just how bad the good food movement really is? The boosters of biotech want you to know that our global food crisis will only be worsened by the sustainable ag advocates who oppose technological [...]

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    The Russians are Coming…and They’re Taking Notes

    March 12th, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    This post was written Regina Weiss and was originally posted on the Green Fork.

    Last week some of us met with a delegation of Russian agricultural and health officials to talk about sustainable meat production. This group has been touring the country looking at aspects of meat and poultry production in the [...]

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    Much Ado about Monsanto – a “Roundup,” If You Will

    March 3rd, 2010 Posted by 4 Comments

    This post comes from Leslie Hatfield, Editor of the Green Fork blog where it was originally posted.
    I’ve been working on a broad range of food and environmental issues since 2005, but food politics became especially personal for me came a few years ago, when I was helping a field producer for a [...]

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    More Than Just Canned Goods

    February 23rd, 2010 Posted by No Comments

    Walking through the door of the renovated Bed-Stuy warehouse, you may ask yourself, “what is this place?”  Ahead, people swipe cards and work on touch screens computers. To your left, a well-stocked lending library; further ahead, a sun-drenched stairway, and to the right, a cheery cafeteria. Is it an office, a government building, a co-op? [...]

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    Harvest Season!

    October 28th, 2009 Posted by No Comments

    This post comes to Sustainable Table from my dear friend, Karissa Seltz, who is teaching for a year in Japan as part of the government’s Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program. During her time there, she has had the opportunity to plant and harvest food at several of the schools she teaches at in the tiny town [...]

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