Basil: The World’s Most Versatile Herb
Whoever said that print is dead clearly hasn’t picked up Wilder Quarterly, the Brooklyn-based journal filled with pages that star “half-green thumbs, rooftop gardeners, foodies and chefs, laymen hikers, landscape architects, hobby farmers, horticulturalists, nature’s innovators, amateurs, and experts.” It’s definitely on our shortlist for top magazines on the newsstand. The WQ blog delivers regular […]
Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest
Forget meadows. Seattle’s food forest will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut […]
Benefits of Beets
Beets, these ruby red root vegetables provide so much nutritional benefits! Who doesn’t love the deep red color that beets provide. Betacyanin Betacyanin is a type of pigment that ranges from dark red to purple. Betacyanin is being studied for it’s anticancer and tumor fighting effects. It’s also a powerful antioxidant that increases the bodies […]
The key to preventing moldy berries? Vinegar!
Raspberries in particular seem like they can mold before you even get them home from the market. There’s nothing more tragic than paying $4 for a pint of local raspberries, only to look in the fridge the next day and find that fuzzy mold growing on their insides. When you get your fresh berries home […]
Why GMO Labeling Won’t Cost Consumers a Dime
By Zack Kaldveer and Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, April 9, 2013 The biotech industry, led by Monsanto, will soon descend on the state of Washington to try their best to defeat I-522, a citizens’ ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. Voters should prepare themselves for an […]
8 in 10 parents buy organic
U.S. families are increasingly embracing organic products in a wide range of categories, with 81 percent now reporting they purchase organic at least sometimes. This finding is one of many contained in the Organic Trade Association’s (OTA’s) newly released 2013 U.S. Families’ Organic Attitudes and Beliefs Study, conducted Jan. 18 to 24, 2013. “More […]
Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again
[via: 17 Apart] Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week? Well, at the same time, we’ve been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we’re excited to share the success of today — regrowing celery from its base. We’ve figured out how to literally […]
Tea’s health benefits boost its popularity
Alex Treadway/National Geographic Image Collection via Alamy – India’s tea producers are benefiting from the growing popularity of the drink in the United States. By Laura Ungar, Published: April 1, Washington Post In the latte-obsessed United States, tea is gaining ground as scientists and the public learn more about its benefits. A growing body of research […]
Farmstand [App]: Discover and Share The Best of Your Local Farmers’ Market
Are you into eating locally grown food? Then you’ll enjoy Farmstand, an iPhone app built to grow and foster your local farmers and food. Farmstand makes it easy to discover and share the best of your local farmers’ market. The iphone app lets you share photos, post deals; and by doing so, support local farmers. […]
National Farmworker Awareness Week highlights a dirty labor plight
This week it’s time to pay some respect to the folks who actually do most of that farming work. The vast majority of our stateside fruits and vegetables are handpicked by more than 3 million migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Without those farmworkers, we’d be very hungry. But as a whole those workers are treated badly: […]
Smaller But Better! Organic Tomatoes Pack More Nutritional Punch
Research results yield further proof that organic produce is endowed with enhanced nutritional properties. Organic tomatoes are 40 percent smaller in size and mass than their conventional cousins, but they pack in more nutritional compounds such as Vitamin C, lycopene and other phenolics, a new study has found. Researchers published their findings Wednesday in the […]
16 Foods That Will Re-Grow from Kitchen Scraps
By Andy Whiteley, Co- Founder of Wake Up World Looking for a healthy way to get more from your garden? Like to know your food is free of the pesticides and other nasties that are often sprayed on commercial crops? Re-growing food from your kitchen scraps is a good way to do it! There’s nothing […]