Tag: Local Food - Page 9
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Trapping Feral Pigs Is Disturbing, But Is It Green? (Video)
One of the things I love about The Perennial Plate cooking show is that it poses as many questions as it answers, and it is not afraid to show the ugly side of food. From hunting and eating roadkill in Minnesota to
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Study Comparing Local To Meat-Free Diet Is Dated and Debunked
All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going
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Eggzy Builds Online Roost For Backyard Chickens
It's been six short years since backyard chickens have gone from weird eco-habit to a bastion of local food self-reliance. Chickens are companionable, relatively easy to care for, and keeping them in your
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Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet (Redux)
Image: bgarciagi via flickr TH note: Thanks to Harvard Business Review a three year old study is making the media rounds for a second time. We covered it at the time and have analyzed the issue of over-simplication of food miles a number of times. But
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Community Supported Chicken Keeping for Backyard Coops (Video)
I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's
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Pineapple Mojitos and 8 More Surprising Recipes to Make on the Grill
The grill is one underrated machine. If you have never ventured beyond meat-heavy classics like hamburgers and hot dogs or think creativity is a grilled eggplant or two, now's the time.
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One Village Envisions a Post-Oil Food System (Video)
We've already seen one British village aiming to go 100% solar. And we've seen one British farm trying to plan for agriculture after peak oil. Now here's a neat video about a community that is trying to plan for a
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7 Ridiculously Overpriced Foods (and 7 Better Ways to Blow Your Money)
Restaurants looking for some quick press can follow this tried and true formula: Take a simple dish (candy, a hamburger, soup); add some crazy valuable ingredients (gold, truffles, crystal); and market it as "The
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10 Cold Desert Recipes for Summer's Hottest Days (Slideshow)
Nothing cools down the dog days of summer like a freezer full of fresh and fruity frozen treats.
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10 Cold Desert Recipes for Summer's Hottest Days
Nothing cools down the dog days of summer like a freezer full of fresh and fruity frozen treats. But here's the good news: You can make all the ice cream, popsicles, frozen yogurts, and smoothies you could ever want, using local, organic produce. These
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Edward Glaeser Phones In The Old Arguments Against Local Agriculture
Economist and author Edward Glaeser enjoys contradicting popular wisdom; I reported on his trashing of Jane Jacobs earlier; now he writes in the Boston Globe that Urban farms do more
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Farmers' Protection of Nature Worth Billions a Year
I wrote yesterday that focusing on food miles risks oversimplifying the idea of local food. The fact is that how are
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Can Small Farms Feed the World & Protect Nature?
When I posted that a focus on food miles alone risked oversimplifying the local food debate, I noted that there is a constant battle between those who claim that small-scale agriculture
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Why "Food Miles" Over Simplify the Local Food Debate
When I posted a video of what large-scale shiitake mushroom growing looks like, it included a rant from one of the farmers about a long-term retail customer who had recently
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10 Grilling Tips For a Delicious, Healthier Summer Barbecue Season (Slideshow)
With barbecue season in full swing, the benefits of using your grill are nearly endless: The meals you can make are delicious, healthy, and guaranteed to keep your kitchen cooler than using your oven.
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10 Grilling Tips For a Delicious, Healthier Summer Barbecue Season
With barbecue season in full swing, the benefits of using your grill are nearly endless: The meals you can make are delicious, healthy, and guaranteed to keep your kitchen cooler than using your oven.But even slow food grill dinners, be they evenings al
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Could Spirulina Help Avert a Food Crisis?
I've written before about the idea that micronutrients and supplements can be an efficient form of food aid, but what about spirulina? Named by Planet Green as one of their Top 5 super-healthy superfoods, this supplement made from two types of
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Sarah Rich on Local Food and Disruptive Technology (Podcast)
Sarah Rich is a former senior editor at Dwell magazine, the creator of Longshot Magazine, and the co-author of the WorldChanging book. Sarah's journalistic obsession pivots around design, urban agriculture, technology, and new media. She tells
