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Globe South Community Bulletin Board
Canton :: MI :: USA | 1 month ago
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Abington Town Hall and Library will hold Touch a Truck on Sunday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 500 Gliniewicz Way. The parking lot will transform into an interactive play museum for kids of all ages. Bring children for an up close and personal
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An Environmentalist on the Lie of Locavorism
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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A small farm in Woodside, Queens, grows vegetables along the right-of-way of the Long Island Railroad. (Photo: Richard B. Levine) I have no idea where my food comes from, but I hope it's shipped by rail from a California factory farm. Don't get me
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Is Your Diet Ethical If It Risks the Food Security of Others?
Lima :: Peru | 5 months ago
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Monday, January 21, 2013 The headline caught my attention right away: Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa?...Though I'm relatively new to quinoa (and still haven't mastered it), I wasn't sure I wanted to read...And now my mind won't
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I don't mourn Hostess, but locavores should
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 7 months ago
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You've lost a local Seattle producer of food : Hostess Brands ...Locally produced Twinkies, Ho Hos, Hostess cupcakes and Wonder Bread. Locavores are supposed to be for locally produced food, but they don't celebrate companies like Hostess...I point
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Liberated from gruel and mush
Jerusalem :: Israel | 10 months ago
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Limiting our intake of fresh produce to whatever can be obtained locally at certain times of the year (and preserving the surplus for the remainder), we are told, will not only help atone for agri-business' fossil fuel-driven ways and constrain us to
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Take the romance out of farming and ditch locavorism
Toronto :: Canada | 12 months ago
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It's the most wasteful, inefficient way to feed the human race you can possibly imagine...Case in point: Our own idyllic countryside, an hour and a half's drive from Toronto. In the mid-1800s it was settled by hard-working farmers who all, by
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Backers intensify push for chickens
Wayne :: NJ :: USA | 1 year ago
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The North Jersey Locavores, a group that advocates using food harvested and raised nearby, has been ramping up its support of measures that would ease restrictions on keeping chickens in residential areas. On March 31, just days before the Wayne
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Letters: Eating Locally (2 Letters)
New York City :: NY :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Re Fresh and Direct From the Garden an Ocean Away (Findings, Aug. 30): Twenty years ago, an ear of sweet corn had a six-hour window between picking and eating, before the sugar turned into starch...The husk extends well beyond the cob to ensure a tip
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Go boating like a Bond girl in Croatia
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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Boat with a Bond girl Croatia Sail the coastlines of Croatia and Montenegro like a Bond girl. Former 007 muse and designer/hotelier Anouska Hempel (she owned, designed and managed famed London boutique hotels Blakes and The Hempel) is renting out her
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Kids learn life lessons, cooking at Portland Farmers Market
Portland :: OR :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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For this particular lip-smacking class, it is crepe-making time while the strawberries are still in season. In weeks that follow, sushi takes center stage, made with thin slices of fresh cucumber and wild salmon or whatever the students choose while
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