Over the years, some movie scenes were successful in dissuading me from eating meat. I share a few of those scenes today. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane tops the list.
Summer means ice cream, and Sweet Bite Creamery of Washington, DC has been defining frozen desserts at DC regional farmers’ markets lately. A photo tour is in order. Come aboard!
All is not lost in the Motor City. A Michigan State University study suggests that the 5000 acres of vacant land could provide Detroit’s residents about 70% of the vegetables and 40% of the fruit that they need. Could a new version of Facebook’s Farmville be on the way???
From its humble origins in Peru, the tomato has taken the world by storm the past 500 years, becoming the staple of cuisines from Armenian to Italian to Oaxacan. Annual global consumption is over 100 million tons and growing. One farm that grows those mass-produced tomatoes while working hard to ensure their sustainability is in Yolo County, California, not far from UC-Davis.
Like other American innovations, other countries have hijacked this delicious treat and made it their own. Why do these countries offer such supurb frozen concoctions? First, fresh ingredients like fruit and cream help. Bulgaria, Hungary, Korea, Brazil, and Argentina top the list
It may not be so healthy if you drink this much, but Sunny Delight is joining the sustainability parade: its bottling plants followed the zero waste route, and made other environmental strides as well.
While I was in Amsterdam for the GRI Conference in May, I met Katarzyna Dulko, a freelance journalist who is also a sustainability manager for a leading European conglomerate. I thought I’d ask her to share her interests—in some ways she is like a Polish Rachel Carson.
As Professor Laudan explains in her blog and in the Utne Reader, wistful nonstalgia masks the reality of what fresh and natural used to mean
Ashley Allen and Tricia Widgen started Sweet Bite Creamery, which features a collection of ice cream sandwiches that are not your ordinary Klondike Bar.
More wineries are moving towards plastic bottles and aluminum caps and away from cork stoppers. Some would say this is alarming for a host of reasons. Harvesting cork has been an ancient practice that keeps a cluster of cork trees, which are almost entirely in Portugal and Spain, alive. But how critical is the continued harvesting of cork?
After 11 generations, the farm, or “Tuttle’s Red Barn,” which by some accounts is the oldest continually operating farm in the United States, will close its operations.
What’s been said?