The winter holidays are time for celebration with family and friends – and lots of delicious food! Make your holidays sustainable this year buy choosing sustainably raised turkey, pork, lamb, or even goose and local or organic ingredients. Even if only some of your holiday meal is sustainable – you’ll be making a big difference this season! To make your family recipes as sustainable as possible, just choose organic or sustainable ingredients, and try to make dishes that use ingredients that are in season.

We’ve included lots of information, recipes, and projects to help you make your holidays special…and sustainable.

Send an animated holiday card!
This year, send our online animated Flash card or e-card (non-Flash) to wish your friends and loved ones a Happy Moo Year! For the tech-savvy, we also have our animated card available for download to your iPod or PDA so you can show it to everyone at your Holiday party! [click here for instructions] If you prefer to send an actual card by postal mail, simply print out our paper card, add your own message, and mail away.

Holiday Spotlight
This season, we’re featuring Chef Keith Snow’s Harvest Eating holiday menu – a series of videos that will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about making a sustainable, seasonal holiday meal!

Chef Snow includes tips and techniques in each of his videos to guide you through the creation of your own holiday meal. Your family and friends will be impressed!

Chef Snow includes videos on how to cook delicious Sage-Rubbed Turkey, Southern Cornbread Dressing, and sides galore – including two kinds of potatoes, green beans, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, and the side that ties the holiday meal together – cranberry sauce!

Check out Chef Keith Snow’s Harvest Eating holiday videos.

Holiday Recipes and Special Features
We’ve added to our recipes page and have lots of sustainable recipes perfect for the holidays, including: Lamb, Goose, Turkey (including brined, heritage, and heirloom!), Cranberry Sauce, Latkes, Mashed Potatoes and lots more!

Ever wonder about the history of winter holidays – including Christmas, Chanukah (a.k.a. Hanukkah), Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice (including Yule and Saturnalia), New Year's, and other winter festivals, traditions and holidays? The holidays celebrated by other cultures might be different than yours, but they all have at least one thing in common – food is a large part of the celebration! Each holiday has a host of different food traditions that you can learn about, and maybe even celebrate!

In the United States, the most popular food over the holidays is a roasted turkey, complete with all the fixings. But today's turkeys aren't the same as the traditional birds served 50 years ago. Find out what's changed and what's being done to bring back poultry breeds that are on the verge of becoming extinct. (More…) Choose sustainable ingredients for your holiday meal this year – the Eat Well Guide can help! Use the Eat Well Guide to find farms, stores, and other food outlets in your area that sell sustainably raised meat, eggs, poultry, and dairy. Then take some time to learn about holiday favorites such as homemade eggnog, sustainable lamb, ham, turkey, and goose and get cooking!

Need something for the kids to do while the holiday meal is being prepared? Check out our organic wreath-making feature to help occupy their time – and maybe make something beautiful for the holidays in the process!

And what holiday is complete without hanging ornaments of our favorite trio? Print out these decorative ornaments and brighten up your tree!

Happy Holidays and all the best in the New Year!