Tag: Local Food - Page 7
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Rooftop Supermarket Garden Delivers Zero Food Miles Produce (Video)
When I last wrote about Food From the Sky's rooftop supermarket garden, they had just picked up an award for their zero food miles produce. It seems the project is still going strong, and I've just come across a great video
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Translucent 'Chicken Chapel' Puts Another Spin On The Coop
From afar, it looks like a mini-sized yoga studio or sauna, but this translucent gem created by Boston-based Moskow Linn Architects and a group of five students is actually a chicken coop. Er, make that a
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The Urbane Forager Maps Found Fruit
We already know that backyard fruit trees are a barely tapped resource for urban gleaning, and we've seen how the Fallen Fruit project has created maps and community events to alert us to the bounty that is all around
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9 Healthy, Low-Sugar Fruit and Vegetable Juices (Slideshow)
The most eco-friendly juice is the one you squeeze by hand after plucking fresh, ripe fruit from the organic trees growing in your backyard.
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9 Healthy, Low-Sugar Fruit and Vegetable Juices
The most eco-friendly juice is the one you squeeze by hand after plucking fresh, ripe fruit from the organic trees growing in your backyard. But if you don't have the space, time, or knack for making your own apple, cranberry, carrot, or tropical juices
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Rockaway Beach Rocks Locavore Eats in Thrifty Spaces
On this rainy start to the weekend -- and Fall -- I needed a little pick-me-up, some sunniness in the face of gray. I pulled out my iPhoto album and found the fix: sweet, summer
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Stunning Film On the Beauty and Craft of Brooklyn's First Modern Distiller (Video)
From the inherent green value of doing it yourself to an insistence that beauty and sustainability must go hand-in-hand, you'll find no arguments among TreeHuggers that the world would be a better place if we learned to make more things, make them
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How to Hunt Burn-Site Morels (Video)
Last week I posted a video from The Perennial Plate in which Daniel and Mirra learned about foraging for sea beans, digging for "geoduck" giant clams, and even making your own sea salt. At the time, I argued that such
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Organic and Local On the Rise at Grocers Nationwide. Energy Efficiency, Too
Times are tough right now, but that isn't stopping the grocery industry, which like other industries is seeing pretty slow growth, from increasing the presence of organic and local items on shelves. The organic industry
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Get Interest Paid in Cheese and Cider: The Surprising Benefits of Local Lending, pt. 2 (Video)
Given the accusations that Wall Street kills jobs and planet, it's little wonder that interest in local investing and Slow Money is on the rise. Besides offering an opportunity to support businesses with shared values (like
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Locavorism Gone Mad? Foraged Sea Beans, Geoduck and DIY Sea Salt (Video)
I am a committed lazivore, and a strong believer in the lost eco-art of cutting yourself some slack. So I've always been somewhat skeptical of hardcore green living experiments, like strict 100-mile diets or growing
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"Oyster Gardeners" Rebuild a Once Thriving Population in the Chesapeake Bay
Scientists say that the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population has dramatically declined to 5 percent of what it was when European settlers first inhabited the area, according to an article in Reuters. Unsustainable fishing
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Oreo Cookie Artist Defends Packaged Food
Food nostalgia, says food artist Judith G. Klausner, can be a rather dangerous thing. Yes,
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From Custard to Cocktails: 10 Unexpected Recipes for Squash and Pumpkin (Slideshow)
Technically summer still has a few more weeks to go, but it might not seem that way at your farmers' market, where summery zucchini, melon, corn, and beans have given way to an autumn lineup that seems heavy on
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Wacky Farming Theme Park Aims to Fix Our Food Problems with Barn Dances and Giant Robot Animals
For your next vacation, forget about Disneyland and the amusement park, and give Farmland World a shot. The "agro-tourist" resort, where you ditch the bathing suit for overalls, is the new hot destination for
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Shalakh Apricots from Armenia Become 1000th 'Passenger' on Slow Food's Ark of Taste
Towering above the Turkish-Armenian border, Mt. Ararat is thought by many to be the place where the biblical Noah's ark -- the vessel said to have taken on a pair of every animal
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The World's Most Incredible Edible Gardens (Slideshow)
Maybe you've only been looking at your vegetable garden as a means to an end: An easy way to get organic herbs, produce, and edible flowers without a grocery-store spending spree or a lineup of tasteless, non-local goods.
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The World's Most Incredible Edible Gardens
Maybe you've only been looking at your vegetable garden as a means to an end: An easy way to get organic herbs, produce, and edible flowers without a grocery-store spending spree or a lineup of tasteless, non-local goods. But as these photos show, your
