michelle victoria 2 Comments Farmers Markets, Gardens and Farms, Sustainable Agriculture
After visiting a farmers markets in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico what I came away with more than anything else (besides delicious food) was the recollection that in fact organic farming is really the original, natural way that farming existed…unfortunately in most of the world we have just lost our way. Before the chemical companies needed
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Here is a wonderful place to buy books about green living and at great prices. Green Living Books sells slightly damaged books, called “hurts”, from Chelsea Green Publishing-one of the top publishers of books on sustainable living. What Chelsea Green considers a ‘hurt’ book is more than likely nothing more than a scratch on the
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Michael Pollan’s newest book Food Rules, An Eaters Manual is out. This book offers 64 simple rules for eating healthier, for our bodies and for the planet. If this became required reading for everyone in school, at all levels, we would take a huge step forward in reversing America’s health crises, and the problems of
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Green jobs, green cars, a green economy, do you ever wonder what exactly qualifies as green and how green is green? It has been said that green is the new black…a trend, a new wave, maybe even a cool way to live. But is that it? There are so many good reasons for this ‘greening’,
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Friends of Slow Money are at it….. Are you fighting to protect the environment? Mitigate climate change? Save the oceans? End oil dependency? Improve health? Improve food systems? Preserve freedom? Imagine if your $5 contribution (coupled with thousands of others) could launch a whole new movement — one that fixes our food system, empowers social
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“Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations”. Since I had been living in Europe for much of the last nine years I was not familiar with Bioneers until recently. For a more detailed explanation of who they are and what
michelle victoria 1 Comment Changing Habits, Films to see, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Sustainable Agriculture
“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” – Hippocrates. We have been saying and hearing for years, you are what you eat, and this is clearly the truth. What are we eating as a society and what are we becoming as a result of it? We are all becoming increasingly
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Recently, an alliance of over a dozen giant food conglomerates and some industry “experts” unveiled the Smart Choices® Program, which puts a shiny green “smart choice” check mark on foods like Froot Loops® and Lucky Charms®. In an age when childhood obesity has become an epidemic, calling sugar cereals “smart choices” is unacceptable. Please join us
michelle victoria 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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Has a small organic garden on the White House lawn really made a difference? The NY Times, the Huffington Post and even You Tube to name just a few, carried the story about the new farmer’s market just a few blocks away from the White House, but does it really matter? I would have to say, yes