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Organic milk is more healthful than conventional milk. It contains 68 percent more omega 3 fatty acids, which has been linked to reducing the risk of heart disease and cancer. Learn more about the benefits from the Organic Milk Cooperative.
– Nima Kapadia
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Tags: · nutrition, Organic Food, Tip of the Day
Homemade baby food: yummy, nutritious and economical
By Michelle Chan Santos
When Jeanne Wallace’s two daughters woke up from their nap the other day - the oldest girl is 3 ½, and the younger one 23 months - they ate radishes for their afternoon snack. Each girl happily ate ten radishes - washed, raw and fresh from their mother’s garden. It was a typical of their tastes - both the children love vegetables, and their favorites are broccoli and cauliflower. They didn’t even want any salad dressing.
 Wallace, who lives in Austin, Texas, credits her young daughters’ healthy eating habits to the fact that she made her own baby food for them. Wallace ate many nutritious foods during her pregnancy and while breastfeeding, and making her own baby food for the girls when they were infants seemed to be the natural next step, she said.
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Tags: · baby food, make-your-own, nutrition, Organic Food
Grape news: researchers develop another pesticide-resistant food
By Barbara Kessler
Apparently conventional farming techniques aren’t too grape for vineyard keepers in the Midwest. Their tender fruit withers when it comes into contact with a commonly used herbicide, called 2, 4-D that is spread on corn and other field crops to control broadleaf weeds.
So researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new grape that can stand up to 2, 4-D (or R2D2 if you’re playing Star Wars).
This new improved grape - imperially named “Improved Chancellor” — does not die when confronted with 2, 4-D (the D stands for Dicholorophenoxyacetic) because it has been genetically altered with an added bacterium that breaks down the herbicide, according to an Environmental News Service release.
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Tags: · corn, Dichlorophenoxyacetic, GMOs, grapes, Improved Chancellor grape, Organic Food
Ten reasons to buy local food
October 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Brenton Johnson, who hosted a recent local-food gourmet dinner on his organic farm, Johnson’s Backyard Garden, just east of Austin, Texas, represents a new breed of young, organic farmer whose philosophy is to live in harmony with the land and bring back the sustainable ways. Naturally (no pun intended), he advocates buying local food.
 In between tending his turnips and perusing the potatoes, Brenton penned this wise, authoritative list, which he agreed to share with us. (We couldn’t write it any better.)
This isn’t just about helping the local farmer, it’s about preserving our planet (and eatin’ better, too!).
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Tags: · genetic diversity, GMOs, heirloom produce, Johnson's Backyard Garden, Local Food, Locavore, Organic Food
From Planet To Plate: Slow Food Nation Celebration In San Francisco
By Catherine Girardeau
This coming Labor  Day Weekend, San Francisco will celebrate the intersection of taste, sustainability and social justice that is the Slow Food movement. Non-profit educational organization Slow Food USA is throwing a four-day party they’re calling Slow Food Nation.
SFN’s Executive Director Anya Fernald hopes the debut event, expected to draw some 50,000 people, will reach out beyond the obvious coalition of foodies, health-nuts and environmentalists to, “build momentum and demand for an American food system that is safer, healthier and more socially just.” Highlights of the festival, which runs Friday through Monday, will include the:
- “Slow Food Rocks” concert, serving up not only Gnarls Barkley and the New Pornographers but gourmet beer and locally-grown and locally-produced food;
- 50,000 square feet of “taste pavilions” for which nationally-recognized regional food experts have hand-picked authentic gastronomic specialities from every state;
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Tags: · Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan, Organic Food, San Francisco, Slow Food, Slow Food Nation, Wendell Barry
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