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Quinoa is not a grain after all, I learned from reading this NY Times piece. It’s a chenopod. Now you know. It’s also delicious, and packed with nutrients. No wonder it’s getting the star treatment from good food fans around the world. Trouble is, folks back home in Bolivia are now finding it too expensive to [...]  The agro-ecological farming community is reeling from a decision by the US government to approve the planting of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa. Why did they do it? Perhaps because Obama’s point man on the issue is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. For all the inspirational work being done by Michelle Obama in ripping up White House lawn [...] Marilyn Tower, owner of Abbotsford’s Tower Foods, with some of the products seized from Vancouver’s Home Grow-In Grocer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency due to alleged inadequate labelling. Credit: Doug Shanks — From the Weekender Home Grow-In, that cool little corner store on Columbia and 18th Ave that Spring Gillard and I podcasted about [...] We’ve been experimenting with cider lately, but nothing on this scale: a photo essay from the Guardian on an apple’s journey from tree to pub in England. Some of it is wrong (the caption writer isn’t an apple grower) and some of it Monty Pythonesque (they harvest with a stick?) but it’s all interesting and [...] Haven’t seen it but the description sounds inviting: HomeGrown is a film about a family living off the grid in L.A. It shows how they pulled 6,000 lbs of produce out of a quarter-acre urban lot, according to the producer. Not that a producer would lie, or that it matters how some folks don’t believe in [...] An interesting entry in the Reburbia contest asking designers to imagine better ways to use the suburbs: “One can imagine pushing a shopping cart through this suburban farm and picking your produce right from the vine, with the option to bring your harvest to the restaurant chef for preparation and eating your harvest on the spot.” via [...] Home Grow-in's Colleen Belli gets it in writing The coolest thing about the new Home Grow-In grocery store in Vancouver (on the corner of 18th and Columbia) should have been its local-only approach. They sell the best of British Columbia’s bounty, including fruit and vegetables and eggs and cheese and jams and more. Then we heard [...] |
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