published November 20, 2010 and has No Comments
The existing Markale Produce Market. Photo: me5otron / Creative Commons . The site of one of the worst civilian massacres during the Bosnian War could become a "healing ground" for the city of Sarajevo and its people, through a proposal by a Danish architecture student who suggests turning the central open-air marketplace into a combined cooperative market and urban ...
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published October 29, 2010 and has No Comments
In wealthier NYC neighborhoods, bodegas often stock a wide range of healthy produce, but in poorer areas your options are generally limited to four food groups: Sugary, highly processed, alcohol and tobacco. Photo: Paul Lowry / Creative Commons . The phenomenon of healthy food deserts existing in America's poor communities is well documented. In New York City, Grow... Read ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Images by B. Alter: Would you rather shop here... Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada's largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries. It's three years later and things have changed--sort of. Now they have a little booth at the front of the store called "Grown Close to Home" ...
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published August 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo: Kelly Rossiter This is National Farmers' Market week in the U.S. and it's the perfect time to get acquainted with your local market if you haven't already. If you are a market regular, take a friend who's never been before. Buy a vegetable you've never tried and be adventuresome. Have a chat with the farmer who is selling ...
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published August 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Whenever one discusses the idea that buying local food saves fuel, the naysayers show up. After all, there is the study from New Zealand's Lincoln University that proved New Zealand lamb transported to the UK to have a carbon footprint of only 688 kg per tonne shipped, vs the purported 2,849 kg footprint of UK raised lamb. (They evidently ...
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published July 26, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Source: Darren Hester Dear Pablo: I heard a rumor that you can incubate store-bought eggs and actually hatch chicks. Can this be true? Contrary to common belief, a rooster is not required for hens to produce eggs. With this said, most commercially produced eggs are laid by hens that are isolated in cramped wire cages with no roosters ...
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published July 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Shopping at the International Marketplace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is like shopping under a Pandora hometree from the movie "Avatar." You don't need 3-D glasses. You don't even need sunglasses. This marketplace, across from Waikiki Beach , is shaded by a huge banyan tree that forms a natural awning over about 130 local vendors who sell their wares to visitors. ...
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published July 9, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: Vidafine via Flickr In New York, a group of twenty-somethings who live together make up a hit sitcom. In Toronto, they make up Trinity Reach Farm . Let's call it The One Where the Gang Makes Their Backyard into an Urban Farm. An urban farm where they raise chickens, grow herbs and vegetables, smoke fish and meat, ...
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published June 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Source: Jonny Hunter Dear Pablo: I grow plenty of vegetables in the summer but can't in the winter. In addition to preserving what I can in canning jars, I am thinking about getting a freezer chest to store my vegetables into the winter. I am concerned about the energy use and am wondering if it is better or ...
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published June 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Source: Jonny Hunter Dear Pablo: I grow plenty of vegetables in the summer but can't in the winter. In addition to preserving what I can in canning jars, I am thinking about getting a freezer chest to store my vegetables into the winter. I am concerned about the energy use and am wondering if it is better or ...
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