Articles tagged “Farmers Market”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

10 Tricks for Optimal Health while Traveling By Julia Austin IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 30 2011 Falling ill while traveling is one of the most frustrating, "why universe, WHY??!" things that can happen. Try these tips so that it doesn't happen to you and so that you can explore a little more than your hotel room bathroom. + READ MORE

Walrus Pee/Car -Free Father/Daughter Getaway By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 16 2011 The last time my dad took me to the zoo, a walrus pee’d in his mouth then spit up into the crowd… spraying me in the face. I was 7. I haven’t been back since. But this year, 26 years later, my dad and I decided to take a car-free getaway to Santa Barbara to celebrate Father’s Day. In an attempt to get over my Zoo issues, we also decided to visit the Santa Barbara Zoo. It was a definite father/daughter bonding vacation. Thankfully there were zero walrus sightings. + READ MORE

Prius or Pious... Are You A Green Snob? By Laurel House IN Tech & Transport Apr 23 2011 The first time I saw a Prius, Dustin Hoffman was behind the wheel. Then celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston were seen pulling up to red carpets all over Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Brentwood in the hyped hybrid. That’s when I began to dismiss the Prius as merely a “statement car.” + READ MORE

Car-Free Road Trip… Greener, Cheaper, and Less Stressful! By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 1 2011 Sure, a driving road trip can be spontaneous and convenient, but you inevitably sit in traffic, spend an arm and a leg on gas and pay up the wazoo for parking. And airports have their own sack full of stress. Really, the easiest, least stressful, dime-saving way to travel these days is by track. Train tracks that is. + READ MORE

The Next Top Farmer? Farmers Becoming Like Celebrity Chefs By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Mar 14 2011 Celebrity chefs are so last year or at least according to an interesting post on Nutrition Unplugged. + READ MORE

The Tanning Bed Diet! Bronze Snacking on These Six Veggies/Fruits By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Jan 18 2011 Anyone else sporting winter's lackluster complexion? It's that time of year when all the blush, bronzer and and lip gloss in the world just won't cut the pasty, ghost glow I begin to rock mid-January. If there's a natural, low-cost way to look sun-kissed, I'm sold. + READ MORE

Pop Tarts: The Organic, Elusive, Eco-friendly Kind By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Dec 21 2010 Us greenies know we can have our sweets and eat them too. Case and point? These wholesome (in moderation), heirloom, organic pop-tarts from Red Queen, LLC. down in Atlanta, Georgia. (Spotted in a recent New York Times magazine.) + READ MORE

How to Avoid Factory-Farmed Food: The Quick Version By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Dec 1 2010 With news that factory farms have been increasing in size at an unprecedented rate, it's more important than ever to make sure you know where your food comes from, and that it's not coming from a source that's largely unregulated and massively polluting. + READ MORE

Sweet Recipes (Without the Refined Sugar) for Apple-Picking Season By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Oct 19 2010 I love my apples in the raw. But there's something that so totally screams the warmth of autumn like a hot baked apple pie like the orchard farm stand tauntingly reminds us with cider donuts and more. Could mom and I, who happen to both be watching our waistlines through low-refined sugar/flour intake, have our apple cake and eat it too? + READ MORE

7 Reasons Not to Eat Factory-Farmed Food By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Oct 7 2010 From preservation of your taste buds to a healthier environment, here are 7 reasons to avoid factory-farmed or industrially-produced food. + READ MORE

What's the Difference Between "Local Food" and "Foodshed?" By Care2.com IN Food & Health Sep 29 2010 Local and locavore (a person who prefers to eat locally grown/produced food) have become well-known terms, as more and more people are looking for locally grown food. But, another term that is used just as often by food and farming organizations is "foodshed" -- learn more about how to identify the difference. + READ MORE

Scammers at the Farmers' Market: How to Make Sure You're Supporting Local Farmers By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Food & Health Sep 29 2010 Here are tips for making sure you're supporting local farmers, and not unscrupulous opportunists, at the farmers' market. + READ MORE

Light and Healthy: Pickled Cucumber with Chick Peas and Arugula Sprouts By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Sep 11 2010 Cucumbers tend to lack flavor because they're made up of mostly water so I often pickle them. I don't mean pickle as in turn them into a pickle, but rather, put them in vinegar for about 30 minutes with a pinch of sugar. Take it a step further and pickle the purple onion as well. Pickling onions adds so much flavor and removes some of the bite. + READ MORE

Mobile Farm Trucks Bring the Produce to the People By Care2.com IN Food & Health Aug 25 2010 In the past couple of years, food trucks have become popular across the United States, in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and San Francisco. And, as local and sustainable food movements continue to grow, it isn’t surprising that some clever entrepreneurs are capitalizing on both trends by bringing farm fresh produce to those in both urban and rural areas. + READ MORE

Are You a Locavore? (Video) By Care2.com IN Food & Health Jul 29 2010 Whether you shop at your local farmers' market, at Whole Foods, or even at an enlightened supermarket, you may be unsure of terms like organic and biodynamic. Come visit these two farms, see how they do it, and hear the farmers tell you what they are all about. + READ MORE

How to Build an ARTfarm By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 13 2010 The nonprofit design collective AFHny Studio is helping a Bronx neighborhood build an art installation that's also a farm. Here's how you can support their work (and dream up an art farm of your own!). + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Barbeques By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 2 2010 Sixty million Americans put fire to food during the summer, but typical grilling and barbeques leave no small footprint behind; our barbeque celebrations cause 225,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. Follow our guide for How to Go Green: Barbeques for tips 'n tricks to greener grilling. + READ MORE

Add Botany of Desire to Your "Watch Instantly" Netflix Queue By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Jun 20 2010 Over my deliberately relaxed, do-nothing weekend, I decided to watch Botany of Desire, the PBS documentary based on Michael Pollan’s book. If other busy bees like me, can’t read the book—relax by taking a break and watch it. + READ MORE

It's a Truck! It's a Farm! (And Now, It's Going To Be a Movie.) By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2010 The makers of KING CORN have a new documentary in the works — about the crops they're raising in the bed of an '86 Dodge pick-up truck. + READ MORE

Albuquerque Launches Nation's First Solar Powered Farmers' Market: Will Other Cities Follow? By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 11 2010 The city has partnered with solar provider CleanSwitch to provide rolling solar panels to power the entire market. According to The Downtown Action Team (DAT) of Albuquerque, the concept is the first step in proving that from seed to sale, the entire process of food production, transportation and delivery can one day be powered entirely by the sun. + READ MORE