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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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  • Can we live without Monsanto?

    michelle victoria September 4, 2010     1 Comment     Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Going GMO free…. After reading about the possible health effects of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn April Dávila did some research and then decided to go “Monsanto-free” for a month. You can read her story at Yes magazine (a great magazine if you don’t know about it). What she discovered was that this was not such

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  • Let Your Voice Count-Say No to GE Salmon

    michelle September 1, 2010     1 Comment     GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices

    Let Your Voice be Heard-GE Salmon could become a reality. This is something that we all need to pay attention to, and stop….The FDA is considering approving GE (genetically engineered) salmon for human consumption. I don’t know about you, but I like my salmon to be 100% salmon, with no genes from other species…. “The

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Potatoes and Greens

    michelle victoria June 2, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Farmers Markets, GMO-GE Information, Los Angeles, Recipes

    This was completely inspired after shopping at the Santa Monica farmers market and the amazing potatoes that I found there from the Weiser family farm. If you are lucky enough to have a local farmers market to shop at experiment with some new produce that you maybe do not usually buy or that you maybe have never

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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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  • 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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  • GMO’s stopped in other countries…why not in the U.S.?

    michelle victoria February 16, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Gardens and Farms, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture

    Here is a great piece from treehugger.com about GMOS’s. The main point of the story is why have Americans accepted the massive inclusion of genetically modified food in our food supply, without much of a fight. And I will add, why has our government been complicit in this. Last week in India the release of genetically

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