Washington Post: Anti-GMO activist Jeremey Rifkin’s editorial cautiously welcomes the rise of a new genomic technology — marker-assisted selection (MAS) — that will increase crop yields and pest resistance without relying on splicing in genes from other species. Except GMO crops may have already contaminated non-GMO crops enough to make MAS more difficult.
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Month of Berries
We are nearing the end of our month of berries, and I admit to some relief. The berries have come from our CSA box, our current yard, and (thanks to freezing) the yard of our previous house. Our last house, a rental, had a very tidy raspberry patch. The patch was contained in a neat […]
Blended love
I’ve fallen in love! I have fallen in love again … with smoothies. Organic, homemade ones, to boot.
It wasn’t love at first sight. No, it actually took a lot of time. Days. Months. OK, maybe years … to get me to see that making a commitment wasn’t really all that hard, in the end.
Let […]
Drinking (and eating) locally in Arizona
Last week, I had to spend a week in Tucson, Arizona to attend a conference for work. Since MolM and I have good friends in Tucson, I opted to extend my visit, spend the weekend with R. and P., and check out Tucson in the company of locals rather than from the lofty environs of […]
Tasty from a neighbor’s bakery
Saturday morning arrived with a nearly empty refrigerator. We were out of town last weekend and had eaten through our remaining groceries except for a couple of eggs from Skagit River Ranch and two pounds of coffee.
While I wrote a blog entry, the Butter Bitch walked uphill to our local coffee shop, which sells local […]
Eat More Sugar (honestly)!
The Atlantic’s Corby Kummer has a nice essay on Honest Tea and the small victories it has seen in the past few years. Kummer starts with the standard screed against high fructose corn syrup (unlike sugar, it doesn’t suppress the hormone that controls appetite, and it is more readily converted to fat by the liver, […]
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