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Author: Amanda Froelich • Date: July 4, 2016

This Country's Precinct Has Reduced Food Waste By 90% In Recent Years

Every week, two-and-half tons of food scraps from 90 businesses in the Degraves Street Precinct in Melbourne are dehydrated and turned into fertilizer. Food waste is a big issue, especially in first-world nations such as t...

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Author: Soil Mate • Date: July 3, 2016

He Started With Some Boxes, 60 Days Later, The Neighbors Could Not Believe What He Built

This homeowner observed his boring green lawn, and he started to ask himself, “so what’s the point?” Although it looked nice, it gave him no satisfaction. It was a lot of work to keep too. So he decided to try something else...

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Author: Chris Perrin • Date: July 1, 2016

We Could Feed the World With Sustainable Food If We Stopped Wanting It to Be Pretty

Bristol, UK — Can we farm sustainably? Can we endeavour to produce enough food to feed the world’s growing population in a way that is respectful to animals, and mindful of the stress agriculture places on the land? These are...

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Author: Trisha Miller • Date: June 30, 2016

Summer Means Snakes - What You Need To Know

It’s estimated that snake bites kill over 100,000 people each year. However, this only makes up a fraction of actual bites that take plac...

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Author: Scott Nystrom • Date: June 28, 2016

Feed Your Food!

It’s ALIVE!!! Soil is a living breathing thing. It’s not just sitting there being dirty, it’s actually teeming with life. One teaspoon of soil contains up to fifty thousand diff...

Appears in: Community, Farmers, News

Author: Jordan Marr • Date: June 27, 2016

Podcast: Your Weeds Are Trying To Tell You Something

Jordan Marr from the Ruminant speaks with Jay McCaman who has spent many years observing and cataloguing the weeds on his and his cl...

Appears in: Community, Farmers

Author: Jennifer Low • Date: June 25, 2016

Refreshing, Colorful Salads to Last You All Summer Long

Salads don’t need to consist of a few limp lettuce leaves and whatever you have left over in the fridge from last week. Summer provides lots of fresh produce that’s often available at local farm stands and markets, perfect for tas...

Appears in: Community, Recipe

Author: Amanda Froelich • Date: June 24, 2016

Elon Musk's Brother To Open '$5 or Less' Healthy Fast Food Joint

Kimbal Musk's healthy and affordable new restaurant will open in August, and it's sure to draw diners from all across the nation. By now, everyone has heard they need t...

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Author: Selena DeVries - Healthbean Nutrition • Date: June 22, 2016

Strawberry Lavender Lemonade

There are a few health benefits of this lemonade, including: There is no added sugar in this drink. Compare this to the average 33g of sugar (or jus...

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Author: Scott Nystrom • Date: June 21, 2016

Fermented Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi looks like something that would grow in a Martian garden. A bulbous root perched atop the soil with gangly leaves reaching skyward. It bears a delicious resemblance to its family fodder, crunchy like a broccoli stem and faintly sweet...

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Author: Chris Perrin • Date: June 20, 2016

USDA Announces Program To Bring Locally-Grown Produce To Low Income Families

Washington, DC — Access to healthy, nutritious food has long been a problem for low-income co...

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Author: Romina Rooney • Date: June 20, 2016

Buying Local? Top 3 Reasons You're Not...And Why You're Missing Out

It’s that time of year again - days filled with the sun shining and lounging at the beach, hot nights, and BBQs with delicious food shared with friends and family. It's summer, and the living is ea...

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Author: Laura Newcomer • Date: June 18, 2016

Urban Foraging: The Ultimate In Local Eating

Many of us have grown accustomed to making a list of foods we want, then heading to the grocery store to buy them. Others have embraced the trend of community-supported agriculture by signing up for shares or participating in community garden...

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Author: Amanda Froelich • Date: June 18, 2016

How To: Grow An Avocado Tree From A Pitt In 10 Easy Steps

It's easy to grow an avocado tree from a pit. Just follow these 10 steps! The old adage goes ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away,’ but it may as well be an avocado. Did you know that the fruit – yes...

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Author: Curtis Stone • Date: June 16, 2016

Top 5 Pieces Of Advice For Starting Your Urban Farm

Hear from our friend Curtis Stone - the Urban Farmer, on his top 5 pieces of advice for starting your own urban farm! ...

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Author: Rochelle Minagawa • Date: June 13, 2016

What’s All The Hype About Fermented Foods Anyways?

Throughout the history of time we’ve seen our fair share of food, fashion and fitness trends. They come and they go. Fermentation is a food trend we’re se...

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Author: Selena DeVries - Healthbean Nutrition • Date: June 12, 2016

Recipe: Mediterranean Quinoa Bowl

A Mediterranean diet is making ...

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Author: Jordan Marr • Date: June 10, 2016

Podcast: Organic Ag In The 21st Century

Can organic agriculture feed the world? A recent paper in Nature: Plants suggests that as a farming system, it scores better than conventional farming...

Appears in: Farmers, News

Author: Christina Sarich • Date: June 10, 2016

Bees and Butterflies Just Got a 1,500-Mile Highway to Save Their Lives

Bees and butterflies, the world’s premiere pollinators, will get a big boost along a 1,500-mile section of a major U.S. Federal hig...

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