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USDA Declares Beef Supply Safe, Despite BSE Diagnosis

4/25/12 5:00am by Genie Gratto
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The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed yesterday that the nation's fourth case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which is also known as Mad Cow Disease, was detected in a central California dairy cow.  Read more >

How to Start a CSA Program At Your Office

4/23/12 1:00pm by jhl
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Imagine picking up a box of groceries at work. Now imagine that the box includes strawberries, snap peas, asparagus, baby lettuce, and radishes all picked that morning less than 20 miles away; a dozen free-range eggs; local goat cheese; a loaf of fresh-baked bread; and a jar of honey. Start envisioning dinner: goat cheese and strawberry salad, asparagus frittata, stir-fry. Finally, imagine that this convenience cost you less than a trip to the store. Too good to be true? Not if you’re a member of a workplace-based CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program.  Read more >

Be Green Now: 8 Quick Fixes to Make Your Life a Little More Green

4/12/12 8:03am by Emily@SAHM.i.AM
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How to make your life a little more green.

For a long time I felt that being environmentally conscious or "green" was out of my reach. We couldn't afford to buy 100% organic everything or install solar panels on our house and I felt like there wasn't much else I could do.To make myself feel better I focused on the things I was doing and tried not to think about all the chemicals, antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides that were making their way into our home via cleaning products and non-organic food. 

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The Family That Butchers Chickens Together: Teaching My Sons About Food

4/12/12 7:51am by CBSMom
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Today, my family had the opportunity to participate in a class at a local farm. Venetucci Farm is about two miles from my house. They are offering a series of classes called “Living Close to Home,” that teaches people about living a more sustainable lifestyle. The first class was Chicken Butchering 101:  Read more >

The Cow: Beyond Beef

3/28/12 12:20pm by feedyardfoodie.com
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A few years back, my oldest daughter came home from school one day and announced that one of her friends was going to stop eating meat and become a vegetarian.  I asked why and she responded, “I don’t know—she said that she wanted to stop using/eating products that were made from animals.”  I am always looking for ways to broaden my children’s horizons and increase their knowledge, and this seemed to be a great opportunity so I ran with it…  Read more >

A Farm of My Own

3/16/12 9:00am by Farmers Daughter
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My family has farmed the same land since at least the 1640’s and my childhood was vastly different from most children in shoreline Connecticut. I felt a deep connection to the land in a way that they could never understand, and my afternoons and weekend were busy and full of life on the farm.  Read more >

Why We Raise Our Own Meat

2/3/12 9:12am by Farmers Daughter
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The more I learned about the way meat animals are raised here in the US, the less I liked it. Upon realizing the way animals are treated - raised in close quarters with tails or beaks cut off, unable to turn around, fed a constant stream of antibiotics and growth hormones, subsisting on diets that they did not evolve to eat - I knew I couldn’t support the industrial meat production system.  Read more >

Life Lessons From the Coop

1/11/12 11:52am by Julie Adolf
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 We lost Salt this weekend. When we decided to add chickens to our menagerie, I knew the risks. We live in a subdivision, but we also live in a forest. A river borders our property. And we've always loved spying wildlife in our backyard. Deer. Possums.  Read more >

Top 5 Ways Livestock are Wrecking the Planet

1/6/12 9:00am by SallyKneidel
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Helping the environment is just one reason for dumping animal products from your diet. But it's a big one. It may be the most powerful choice you can make to help our ailing planet. If carnivorous friends and family give you a hard time for sticking to veggies, tell them some of these surprising eco-facts about the havoc wrought by livestock.  Read more >

Microbreweries: 'Green' Beer

11/28/11 3:47pm by M Jensen-Middlebrook
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Unlike earlier crafted organic wines, organic beers are fantastically flavorful. Many craft brewers already make mindful business decisions based on minimizing environmental impact, and being socially responsible contributors to their communities. Image: stevendepolo via Flickr   Read more >