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Homemade key lime and strawberry pie is a summer treat at our house.89

Growing Strawberries

Strawberrries are a perenniel herb that can be grown in most areas of the United States,as well as Canada. Certain varieties can even be grown in Alaska. They grow best in a cool, moist climate...

19 comments    home food gardening
fake genius profile image65

5 Quck Ways at the Grocery to Reduce your Carbon Foot Print

While some of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint while buying your usual groceries are to simply grow your own veggies, shop at farmers markets and join co-ops, many of us don't yet have some of...

0 comments    how to tips shopping
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Eating Local for the rest of us

A locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally. The locavore movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to produce their own food, with the argument that fresh, local...

0 comments    food eating garden
Marcy Marchello profile image70

My Top Ten Tips for Greener Living

Let's go deeper. Lots of these lists are circulating. Most that I've seen aim to entice people to feel like living greener can be a reasonable endeavor with baby steps. If you are already reducing, reusing,...

0 comments    lifestyle green living carbon
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I am feel'n just peachy

When you select the right produce, everything is peachy! Henry David Thoreau might’ve been thinking about peaches when he said, “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste...

0 comments    cooking gardening plants
Alton Brown, Food Badass!51

Local Eating, A learning experience

This Blog is about eating local foods, how to find them, how to cook them, how to grow them, and what to do with the rest. More than that, it's about a modern food culture. Welcome, and enjoy.

0 comments    recipes gardening canning
Make sure these lovelies are fresh fresh fresh!63

Fruity Tooty Beauty!

We all want to look fresh and youthful, but we go about it the wrong way! If your outsides are sagging, drooping, wrinkling...your insides are suffering much worse! Forget that next cosmetic cream or lotion purchase and eat fresh fruit...every day!

13 comments    health food eating
John D Lee profile image57

Ecological grocery shopping. The hidden oil in the foods we eat

It's strange to think of oil and food as interlinked, and images of barrels of crude seem incongruous with thoughts of ripe vegetables, and steaks on the grill; but the reality of our current food production...

3 comments    food processed foods peak oil
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Buy locally, support your community of farmers, and cook better food.

Buy local produce, support your local farmers This is an increasingly common mantra heard these days; and it is justifiably important to use your dollars to support those in your community that are...

3 comments    food cooking farming
Shop Locally63

Eating Like a Localvore

Yes, I said "localvore". Don't be surprised if you've not heard the term before, it's a fairly new concept born out of the current trend of environmental friendliness. A greener way of eating.

3 comments    food diet environment
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