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  • Pre-Conference Bioneers Farm Tour

    michelle victoria October 15, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, San Francisco-Bay Area, Sustainable Agriculture

    Yesterday was the beginning of the Bioneers conference, which started with a few pre-conference intensives. I attended the farm tour and we began the day at the vibrant San Rafael Farmers Market. This farmers market is 27 years old and is one of eight markets that the Agricultural Institute of Marin operates. The Sunday San

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  • Real, Sustainable Food at Colleges….

    michelle victoria September 6, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Films to see, School Lunches, Sustainable Agriculture

    I just came across this great blog that was started by a student at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and now has been taken over by another student, to encourage bringing sustainably raised food to colleges across the country. Many schools are working on this drastic change to what usually had been found on

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  • Deconstructing Supper-Is Your Food Safe?

    michelle victoria July 28, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Films to see, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Restaurants, Sustainable Agriculture, Video Clips

    I am once again watching movies to select what we will be showing for the Santa Fe Farmers Market Film Series, which starts back up again in January. I just saw a great one on where our food comes from called Deconstructing Supper. The film follows chef John Bishop, who owns the five star restaurant

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  • The Curious Palate…your neighborhood kitchen and market

    michelle victoria July 9, 2010     2 Comments     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Los Angeles, Recycling, Restaurants, Sustainable Building, Sustainable Businesses

    This is my kind of neighborhood restaurant. At The Curious Palate I found a restaurant/market that really cares about quality and where ingredients come from. They shop and cook like I do at home, but they make things that I probably would never cook at home, so now I can enjoy them without being worried

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  • Boulette’s Larder-As inviting as your best friend’s kitchen

    michelle victoria February 19, 2010     2 Comments     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Restaurants, San Francisco-Bay Area, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Imagine a restaurant that feels as if you are in your best friends kitchen, that is if your best friend happens to be a fabulous cook and uses only the freshest and mainly local ingredients. This is the feeling that I had at Boulette’s Larder in San Francisco, at the Ferry Building. You would not

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  • Gather-an organic restaurant is coming to Berkeley

    michelle victoria December 1, 2009     1 Comment     Farm to Table, Gardens and Farms, Restaurants, San Francisco-Bay Area, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses

    It was surprising to me to learn that there is not an organic breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant in Berkeley… but Gather is on the way and it is opening December 15th. Gather will bring seasonal, farm food among friends, and its opening is a long fulfilled dream  of the owners.  Ari Derfel, one of

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  • More from Embudo…a video so you can be there too!

    michelle victoria October 1, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Restaurants, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Businesses, Video Clips

    Here is a short Video from Embudo Station from my visit there a few weeks ago. It is filmed, produced and edited by my friend Sharyn Bey, who I will be working with to bring you more live action from places that I visit.  It is almost like being there except that you don’t get

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  • A real lesson in farming-Green String Institute

    michelle victoria October 1, 2009     1 Comment     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    In 2000 Fred Cline, founder of Cline Cellars, and Bob Cannard founded the Green String Institute. The Institute was created because both men saw that as the concept of organic farming became more popular it was unfortunately also being diluted from what it truly is. To Bob Cannard, one of the pioneers of the organic movement

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  • The G20 Summit Goes Green in Pittsburgh

    michelle victoria September 23, 2009     No Comment     Farm to Table, Recycling, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Building

    A two day G20 summit, not very long considering how many critical issues are at hand, will convene tomorrow in PIttsburgh. I had no idea but Pittsburgh is being hailed as one of the greenest urban centers in the U.S. Could this be? transformed from the city of steel, to the city of green. Sounds

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  • Fresh blue corn cornbread thanks to Talon de Gato Farm at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market

    michelle victoria September 20, 2009     2 Comments     Farm to Table, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Recipes, Santa Fe, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Yesterday at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market I was lucky to spot the last bag of blue cornmeal at one of the vendor’s stands and this morning I made this blue corn cornbread. I had not planned to post this here but I had someone Tweet me (my Twitter name is SmartLifeways if you would like to

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