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Hidden Pond Resort: Finding Luxury in an Organic Garden
Imagine waking up in your own private cottage nestled in 60 acres of birch groves and balsam fir, decked out with decor from local designers and craftspeople, and strolling down to pick your breakfast at will from a huge
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Huffington Post Readers Pick Best Cities for Local Resto's and Beers
Our friends over at the Huffington Post are having a great time seeking out all the best cities for local food spots around the USA. They are asking readers to send in names of their favourite city, as well as photos of the
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Seed to Plate: Online Garden Planner Makes it Easy
With the Obamas gardening at the White House, vegetable gardening seems to have hit the mainstream. But many folks are still intimidated by the whole process - what do I plant, when, how many and how do I care for them? It
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The Week in Pictures: A Giant Rat-Eating Plant, Chevy Volt's 230 MPG Rating, Woodstock's 40th Anniversary, and More
From a giant rat-eating plant to Woodstock's 40th year anniversary, a lot happened this week. General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson announced that the Chevy Volt gets a rating of 230 miles per gallon in city driving; thieves broke into the cash for
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TreeHugger Readers' Edible Container Gardens (Slideshow)
A Wee-Hugger enjoys watermelon. Credit: Susan Dyrud MacDonald We asked for your edible container garden photos and received beautiful photos of Wee-Huggers enjoying the fruits of their labor, a rooftop vegetable garden monitored by a solar-powered
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Far Foods: Food-Mile Labeling Lays On Guilt Trip
Simple yet provocative, James Reynold's alternative packaging concept for supermarket produce is definitely a mind tickler. The London-based graphic designer, whose "Far Foods" idea was featured today on swissmiss, suggests
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The Farmery: Vertical Farming Integrated with Retail
Adam Stein over at TerraPass may have argued that vertical farming is pie in the sky, but there's no shortage of dreamers who beg to disagree. From Organitech's high-density vegetable production to Sky Vegetable's rooftop
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Local Redefined: Harris Teeter's 'Local' Tomatoes
Sometimes a picture says it all. Eric Henry, of green t-shirt pioneers TS Designs, posted this on his Facebook page. The focus isn't what it could be, so for those who can't read it - it's a tomato, proudly
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Readers, Send Us Your Photos! We Want to See Your Edible Container Gardens
Do you grow strawberries in a clay pot? Tomatoes from a hanging basket? Squash in a former wine barrel? Prove it! We want to see your edible container gardens and share them with the world.
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Joel Salatin, America's Most Influential Farmer, Talks Big Organic and the Future of Food
Joel Salatin is a self-described environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer, or as the New York Times calls him, "the high priest of the pasture." You may remember him from The Omnivore's Dilemma, in which he was profiled at length by Michael Pollan.
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Self-Sufficient Detroit? Urban Food Revolution in Motor City
When Adam Stein criticized vertical farms and urban agriculture as "pie in the sky", his principle argument was that downtown urban real estate was too valuable for growing food, and that it would be better
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Bike-Powered Organic Produce Delivery: Harvest Cycle
We TreeHuggers are big fans of local, sustainably grown produce. We're particularly big fans of CSAs and other forms of produce delivery as a great way to consolidate trips and cut down on those last few food miles. (The
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Wanderlust Festival Co-Founder Jeff Krasno Speaks About the Festival's Green Initiatives
Wanderlust Festival co-founder Jeff Krasno says that this new yoga/music festival is working to be one of the greenest festivals around. Practicing what they preach, this Tahoe based festival branded its own water bottles made from compostable plastic
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A Wheatfield Grows in the East End of London
In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art--she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only
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Is "Locally Grown" the new greenwashing catch phrase?
Image Source: Pablo Paster I was perusing the produce section of my local Safeway supermarket when I began to notice signs proclaiming that certain fruits and vegetables were "Locally Grown." I thought that this was great. Supermarkets, which had finally
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The Milk Police---Smuggling Raw Milk across State Lines
I first heard of raw milk from my yoga teacher in Asheville. She swore by the stuff claiming that not one of her three kids had ever even had a cavity and she was sure it was a result of the milk. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical
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Richard Branson Opens Farm to Fork Eco-Resort in NJ
Richard Branson, known for supporting all types of wild and high profile schemes (renewable energy, carbon capture, alternative fuels for Virgin Airlines and even eco-resorts on his famous islands), now he's into
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How Communities Grow Free Food (Video)
Image credit: GROFUN Neighbors Come Together for Gardening and Free Produce Growing your own veggies is great. But the process can be intimidating and time consuming. That's why it's so important to help newbies learn new skills and meet like-minded,
