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  • New Mexico could be the first state to pass a GMO labeling law.

    michelle January 19, 2013     No Comment     Activism, Changing Habits, GMO-GE Information, Industrial food practices, Santa Fe, Sustainable Agriculture

    I have not been as active here at SmartLifeways as I would have liked to be over the last months, actually for most of 2012, but it has all been for good productive work in other areas. But…now here in New Mexico a bill has been introduced to require labeling of food containing GMO’s. If

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  • A Creative Intervention for Climate Change

    michelle November 28, 2010     No Comment     Changing Habits, Climate Change, Santa Fe

    With the upcoming U.N. Climate Conference starting in a few days I wanted to follow up on Santa Fe’s Flash Flood, the human art event that I wrote about in my last post. The Flash Flood was one of 18 global events sponsored by Earth.350.org to bring attention to climate change that were filmed by

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  • A cafe grows and does even more good!

    michelle victoria May 17, 2010     No Comment     Restaurants, Santa Fe, Sustainable Businesses

    I will confess that when I saw that a burger place called Flying Star Cafe was opening in Santa Fe’s Railyard District I was less than enthusiastic and then once they opened and posted a sign out front listing “items purchased at the farmers market” I had a hunch that this was nothing more than

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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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  • 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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