By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Want t
o dress just like Michelle Obama, but can’t afford to? You can replicate her garden instead!
Local Harvest (.org) has put together a list of seeds similar to those that will be used in the presidential veggie garden. If you’re considering your own home-ag project, it’s worth a look. The carefully plotted White House garden will feature a lot of green leafy stuff with at least five varieties of lettuce as well as spinach, snap peas and broccoli (apparently the Obamas are NOT broccoli-phobic), promising a bounty of antioxidants and a lot of fun times for the receiving chefs. All this seasonal cool Mid Atlantic produce we assume will be followed by tomatoes and squash later on.
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Top 10 reasons to shop at a farmer’s market
By Christopher Peake
Green Right Now
It’s already mid-March and that means the snows will melt and if the ground’s not too saturated farmers will soon be planting seeds for the food that will feed us this year.
Since time immemorial farmer’s markets have been with us: farmers harvest, bakers bake, dairy farmers milk their cows and they all meet at a central location where there’s lots of foot traffic … and they sell. The common theme: the food is fresh.
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Tags: · California, Dairy, farmer's markets, food miles, gardening, gourmet food, Local Food, meat, New Hampshire, Oregon, Organic Food, plants, Produce, sustainable agriculture, Texas, Wisconsin
Bring local produce and the customers will come
By Carol Sonenklar
Green Right Now
If people who ran the highest risk of obesity and Type 2 diabetes were offered more fruits and vegetables to offset or prevent these health risks, would they eat them?
Resoundingly, yes.
Study after study shows that when low-income populations have access to fresh fruits and vegetables, they significantly improve their diets.
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Tags: · Brownsville, Designed for Disease, diabetes, farmer's market, Local Food, Produce
Pre-teen Farmers No Longer Outlaws In Clayton, California
By John DeFore
With the locavore ideal so much in the media these days and produce of vague origin sparking so many health scares, you’d think the last thing a city would go out of its way to do would be discourage local growers. Especially if those growers are adorable little girls.
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Tags: · California, Farmers, Locavore, Produce
