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Slow what?: Review of “Slow Gardening”

By • on October 11, 2011

By now, I’m sure that all good Ethicurean readers are familiar with Slow Food and the tenets of this movement: the pleasure of good, clean, fair food and celebrating our many food traditions. The idea of

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Minding common ground: “Poly-farming” in northeast Ohio

By • on September 27, 2011

Just about any road I take that leads me out of Wooster, Ohio, very quickly guides me past vast fields of corn or soybeans. Agriculture plays a vital role in Wayne County’s economy, and for several

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Olney Friends School in Ohio grows food to grow enrollment

By • on December 9, 2010

The farm-to-school movement has been gaining ground lately as advocates encourage administrators to bring more local food into school cafeterias. But at Olney

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Foraging restaurant and suppliers adapt to new rules

By • on August 6, 2010

Forage gleans a new strategy: When Forage restaurant opened in Los Angeles's Silver Lake neighborhood, they used produce from customers' backyards to supplement their normal produce purchases, paying for the backyard produce with food or drink from the restaurant and often noting the donor's name on

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Want to grow food on City of Oakland land? Here’s how

By • on July 21, 2010

By Stephanie Paige Ogburn We’ve all seen it: the vacant lot down the street that gets full sun, or the underused city park choked over with weeds. And many of us have thought: I bet that would be a great community garden space, if some enterprising growers

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Contain your enthusiasm: Review of “From Container To Kitchen”

By • on July 10, 2010

As an apartment-dweller, I know the frustration of not having enough soil to call my own for a garden. (Why do you think

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Getting Lodi’d: It’s raining apples!

By • on July 8, 2010

When nature calls on the farm, we listen. Meaning, when a fruit with a short shelf life becomes suddenly ripe, there's no choice but to drop everything else. Did you know there are 7,500

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Battling the bugs—and the temptation to use chemical WMDs

By • on July 1, 2010

Off to war against the weed-lurking worms. (Steph Larsen photos) I'm at war with the common stalk borer. As much as I believe in sustainability and chemical-free agriculture in theory, I've never been more

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Survey explores why Americans garden, but not why they don’t

By • on June 23, 2010

[Update 6/24/10: corrected heading for column 2 in table] With a terrible economy and lots of coverage of gardening in the mass media, more and more Americans are growing food in home and community gardens. According to a 2009 survey, almost a third of American households intended to grow food that year,

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Growing with the grain: Review of “Homegrown Whole Grains”

By • on June 21, 2010

As you may have guessed by now, I love to bake. And since part of my self-employment now entails baking goods to sell at Local Roots, I'm keenly interested both in sourcing what grains and flours I can find locally — as well as growing what I can. Thanks

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The Edible Schoolyard brings learning to life

By • on May 1, 2010

The cover story of this week's East Bay Express has a provocative teaser: "Berkeley's Edible

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Unlocking Genetic Diversity with the Backyard Seed Vault Project

By • on April 27, 2010

By Mat Rogers The 1979 children’s book Ox-Cart Man describes a colonial family who spends all year raising a crop and an ox, building the ox’s cart, and making mittens, brooms, and candles. Then the ox-cart man sets off

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The ‘femivore’: New breed of feminist, or frontier throwback?

By • on March 14, 2010

Cross-posted from Grist, where I am serving as deputy food editor (part time). Have locavores and feminists -- factions that a few years ago, some

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The spirit is willing, and the fresh is weekly: Review of “A Year on the Garden Path”

By • on February 28, 2010

For the past few weeks, I've been watching the snow drift down with deceptive lightness, only to accumulate in deep piles (18" and counting here in northeastern Ohio) that have well and truly buried any remotely green thing on the ground. While it's lovely to sit inside and watch winter's show, I also

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When times get larder: “Food Security for the Faint of Heart” reviewed

By • on January 31, 2010

The potential for disaster surrounds us every day. The aftershocks of the earthquake in Haiti may seem too big for many Americans to grasp,

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