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I say it again: eat local!
In: Food|Toxic Times
25 May 2007In case you need another reason to start eating local: As Imports Increase, a Tense Dependence on China China has become the leading supplier of many food ingredients, such as apple juice, a primary sweetener in many foods; garlic and garlic powder, a major flavor agent; sausage casings and cocoa butter. China now supplies 80 [...]
Planning a balcony garden
In: 90 percent|Food|Garden
23 May 2007The nice thing about living in San Diego is that it’s never too late to start a garden. It’s just a matter of what to plant and when to plant it. Oh, and where. Kind of like the five w’s we learned in journalism class [who, what, where, when and um, how -- I know, [...]
Living off the land
23 May 2007Freedom is growing your own food. That’s the philosophy of Jules Dervaes and his three grown children. They are supporting themselves by farming almost every inch of their 1/10th-acre yard in Pasadena, California — complete with chickens, ducks and goats. Their amazing urban farm, which yields three TONS of yummy organic food per year, is [...]
Getting mentally organized
In: 90 percent|Food
23 May 2007I need to get organized, and I’m not talking about sorting papers and decluttering my home, though I need to do that too — oy, do I! No, I’m talking about mental organization. In the past month or so — since Earth Day, really — I’ve been obsessively reading everything I can about how to [...]
Now that the pet food contamination scare has spread to the human food supply, the Organic Consumers Association has some excellent reasons, besides all the global warming stuff, to buy and eat local: you may be eating contaminated food. Each year, the average American consumes 260 pounds of imported food. 98.7% of foods imported into [...]
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- LaVonne Ellis: Smart! Half a dozen or more of those abandoned websites are mine, lol. This one almost became one of [...]
- Mike Korner: Twitter is definitely unique LaVonne. Like all tools, it is valuable/powerful in the right hands and [...]
- LaVonne Ellis: Thanks, Mike. You make some excellent points. I've been going back and forth about sending this [...]
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