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Michelle Obama, Sam Kass tell White House Kitchen Garden’s story
Groundbreaking video: The White House has released a 7-minute video of showing the progress of the first "really-productive, feeding-a-lot-of-people" garden (as White House chef Sam Kass puts it) on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. While the word "organic" is rather conspicuous for its absence from the
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Grow for it: A message about food from the president
In 1945, during the fourth year of America's direct involvement in World War II, President Harry Truman issued a proclamation about food. He called for those on the home front to plant larger victory gardens, to preserve more food,
Experts dismiss White House garden lead levels as of no concern
Leading questions: East Wing defender-in-chief Eddie Gehman Kohan is irked that the White House garden is getting dissed by Mother Jones and others for having lead levels in the "ridiculously low" 93 ppm range (left over from sludge the EPA spread there), and she's dialing academic experts for back up.
Missouri’s Heartland Harvest Garden should inspire edible gardeners everywhere
If the whole "edible landscape" notion has failed to appeal to you, the Heartland Harvest Garden at Powell Gardens in Missouri just might make you reconsider. Officially open as of June 14,
Queen of England to grow her own
Tally hoe!: The Queen of England, 83, has re-embraced the "grow your own" movement, and will once again grow fruit and heritage vegetables in an allotment-sized plot in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. The garden will be organic, fertilized with liquid seaweed and palace compost. (Queen
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Digest: Monsanto blog launched, more food news from White House
New media = new image?: Monsanto has been a punching bag in the blogosphere for years. We should know. Now, the biotech giant has not only launched an ad campaign aimed at food's "thought leaders," it's digging into its deep pockets to fund a new Facebook presence, Twitter stream, and a blog, Monsanto
Digest – Features and blogs: No flies on me, tomato realities, Osterholm revolves
The 'fix' is in: Sources say that the Obama Administration will nominate Michael Osterholm to head the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service on Monday, in clear violation of its own anti-revolving-door policy. Osterholm is a longtime supporter of food irradiation, but that's not all - if you have any
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Hoe, hoe, hoe! A Victory Garden wish list
Dear Santa, December is already here, and though I'm sure you must be busy running the rush orders through your workshop and checking those lists of "naughty" and "nice" and loading up the sleigh, I'm afraid that we've
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Artists explore urban sustainability at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
"Gatherers — Fallen Fruit, Elysian Park," 2005, giclee print, photo courtesy of David Burns, Matias Viegener & Austin Young (downloaded from YBCA's press room) A
Waiting is the harvest part
If you've been wondering, "Whatever happened to those Victory Gardens you Ethicureans were tending?" — well, truth is, after that last big burst of excitement with tomatoes
“Homegrown”: New documentary on Pasadena urban microfarm
Just got an email from the director of "Homegrown," what looks like a cool new documentary. It's about the Dervaes family, who run a microscopic organic farm in urban Pasadena, California. They live on
Food politics gets a prestigious platform, with Michael Pollan’s manifesto in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine
Michael Pollan — the closest thing the sustainable food movement has to a leader, even if he insists on pretending he remains just a journalist — wants the next president of the United States to pull weeds from the organically managed South Lawn Victory Garden; donate its surplus tons of food to
The eat is on: A virtual Victory Garden potluck
If you've strolled through your local farmers market lately, you've noticed that for most of us around the continent, we're seeing the peak of harvest season. Farmers pile their tables high with intensely red tomatoes,
To the Victory Gardeners go the toils
Summer's heat has finally reached us all, even our northernmost Ethicurean colleagues, and if you wonder why you haven't heard much from many of us — well, you can imagine us with dirt on our hands and knees, working away
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Sowing the seeds of social change: Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden
Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco's City
