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Dish soap as pesticide (with a little help from good bugs)
If you're going to grow your own organic produce, you need to arm yourself with other tools to fight the bad bugs, besides pesticides.When Patty Silva-Hicks tore up her front lawn to plant fruit trees and a vegetable garden, she decided to go organic. So now, instead of ...
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2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
Homemade pasta: rotini, orecchiette and machine-cut noodles
Making your own pasta is the best way to know exactly what goes into it: to avoid preservatives or additives and use only fresh ingredients. While it's not something that you need to do every time you want a bowl of the stuff, it's also a great way ...
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3 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Swapping lawn for fruit: "because you can't eat grass"
There's plenty of discussion about America's gardening revolution- from the Obamas to recession gardeners-, but I didn't expect to see such radical change when returning to my parents town in Northern California. Here, in this once-agricultural town, the now more suburban residents are returning even their front ...
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10 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
Organic, but not certified: Laurelwood Farm
Not all organic farmers are certified organic. As organic sales have grown so have those growers who have chosen to refrain from joining the organized movement, either on idealogical reasons (a reaction to Big Organic and the dilution of the original organic principles) or for economic ones. Going organic can ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff / nicolas.boullosa staff 1 comments
Pasture-raised lamb free from hormones and antibiotics
While eating meat is one of the most resource-intensive activities we engage in (according to a 2006 U.N. report), if you're still eating meat- perhaps you've cut down on the amount or gone for Meat Free Mondays- there are greener meats to choose.Chicken and turkey rank ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Visiting a seasonal, artisanal mall in San Francisco
During our visit to the Ferry Building Marketplace, we paid attention to the individual shops, specializing in all types of goods, and it was soon obvious there was a pattern behind the entire place. Those behind this local, seasonal, artisanal mall explain their mission as not only to support the ...
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1 year ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A mail-order greenhouse
So you've joined the backyard garden revolution and are now growing
as much of your own food as possible. If you're ready to stretch your
growing season into the wintertime (or, at least, later into the fall),
consider a greenhouse.Not only does a greenhouse let you grow ...
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1 year, 1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How one winery creates fertility organically
"A lot of the early farmers, as a lot of the farmers still do today, viewed nature as something to wrestle into submission and control," explains winemaker Steven Canter who has spent most of his career working with nature to grow grapes without synthetic inputs to create organic wines.Today ...
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1 year, 2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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A BBQ with friendlier meat: heritage breed, grassfed & local
Brooklyn, New York, resident Sarah Dickinson tries not to eat a lot of meat (due to its heavy environmental toll), but when she wanted to throw a barbeque for friends and family, she decided instead of going meat-free to opt for some more environmentally friendly cuts.It just so happens ...
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1 year, 2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Skunkfunk: a low carbon t-shirt and urging you not to buy
Their color is green, they began on an organic farm and they use recycled fabrics, but Skunkfunk founder Mikel Feijoo Elzo doesn't oversell his good deeds. "We can't talk to much about sustainability when we are in a very consumerism industry. We do not need so many clothes ...
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1 year, 2 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
