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  • Joining Together to Save Our Food Choices

    michelle victoria December 15, 2010     No Comment     Body Care Products, Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Sustainable Agriculture

    I doubt that there are many of us who do not recognize the increasing influence of big business that has been creeping into the political process over the last decades. The most recent election was a free for all when it came to campaign contributions, and for many of these contributions we the public are

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  • Time to Put Public Health Before Corporate Interests

    michelle victoria December 8, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices

    You can let California’s Governor-Elect Jerry Brown know that you don’t want your strawberries sprayed with a known carcinogen and neurotoxin. There was public and scientific opposition to approving methyl iodide but lobbying and corporate interests won out over the health of strawberry consumers across the country (90% of all strawberries consumed in the U.S.

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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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  • An eleven year old tells us about our food system.

    michelle September 28, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Slow Food, Sustainable Agriculture

    Just saw this wonderful five minute video of what is wrong, and also what is right about our food system at Civil eats (a great web site). What makes it even more extraordinary is that it is given by an eleven year old at a TEDx event. This is all so obvious that a child

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  • Santa Fe Farm Tour is Sunday

    michelle victoria August 28, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Recipes, Sustainable Agriculture

    This Sunday is the Santa Fe Farmers Market 15th annual Farm Tour. Four farms that are members of the Santa Fe Farmers Market will open their gates for all of us to come for a visit. For most of the day you can drive through beautiful Northern New Mexico, between Santa Fe and Taos, visit

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  • No Impact Man and Planet Green

    michelle victoria August 26, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Gardens and Farms

    If you have not seen the film No Impact Man and have channel Planet Green you are in luck. Saturday, August 28, at 10/9c pm No Impact Man will have its television premier. This is a great film and you can read about in another post. What I liked so much about the film is

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  • Climate Change-Organic Farming is part of the Solution

    michelle victoria August 7, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Commercial agriculture is a major  contributor to greenhouse gases, as are most elements of the current food system in the U.S. today. Our food system just doesn’t work. Not for the small towns that have disappeared as farmers move away after losing their farms. Not for the soil that is being depleted and the topsoil

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  • Shopping Organic as Part of a Bigger Picture

    michelle victoria April 26, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Businesses

    A recent article on AOL discussed whether buying organic was really worthwhile. It also spoke of a back lash against organic as stories come out about companies being labeled organic that really are not, and also doubts if organic means healthier. I see shopping organic as an important aspect of living sustainably for what it

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  • Test results are in-Jamie Oliver gets an A

    michelle victoria April 3, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, Industrial food practices, School Lunches

    Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution now has proof that good, “real”,  food makes for healthier (did we even need to wonder?) kids and improved learning. Jamie Oliver’s work changing school lunches is nothing new for him. What he is attempting to do in W. Virginia he started in 2004 in England with his Feed Me Better program.

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  • Less Impact Living with SmartLifeways

    michelle victoria March 25, 2010     3 Comments     Changing Habits, Cleaning Products, Farmers Markets, Films to see, Gardens and Farms, Recycling, Restaurants, Sustainable Agriculture, Transportation

    There is a wonderful film called No Impact Man (and there is a book version as well) that came out fairly recently about a N.Y. city family that spends a year exploring what it means to live without making any impact on the earth. They went to an extreme that most of us would never

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