sustainable agriculture
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A mid-winter Midwestern vegetarian feast [VIDEO]
When someone says "local food," "Minnesota," and "January," what's the first food group that springs to your mind? Well, a variety of root vegetables, a couple of grains, and a little creativity can make you forget meat altogether.
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Caught a wascally wabbit? Give it the French treatment [VIDEO]
Last week, I portrayed the unnerving experience of slaughtering a bunny. Now, I move to a more uplifting task: making rabbit terrine.
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Making cheese from Icelandic sheep [VIDEO]
At Star Thrower Farm, Deborah and Scott Pikovsky raise these cold-hardy animals for their milk, meat, and wool -- and they do it outside, on pasture, all year long.
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New Agtivists: Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez turn coffee grounds into fun fungi kits
When two good-looking 23-year-olds give up careers in investment banking to grow mushrooms, oysters and shiitakes aren't the first fungi one imagines.
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Truly sustainable meat eaters choose rabbit [VIDEO]
This week, I visited Marshall Farm, one of the few (if not the only) commercial rabbit producers in Minnesota, where Scott and his family just finished their first year of raising bunnies. Care for a "Sloppy Hoppy"?
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Worldwatch report highlights how lopsided discussion is about Africa, food, and biotechnology
How come we hardly see op-eds on what paved roads, improved sanitation, more efficient distribution networks, soil conservation and a reduction in food waste might do for world hunger?
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Care for some human cheese?
If you said "Ew, no thanks!" you're not alone. But why do we consume milk meant for other baby animals but wrinkle our nose at our own?
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Learn how truly wild rice is harvested [VIDEO]
Most wild rice that you see at the store is not, in fact, wild. Truly wild rice is superior in flavor, but few have the patience for this kind of painstaking hand-harvesting anymore except Native Americans.
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The (not so) New Agtivist: Joan Gussow, mother of the sustainable food movement
For more than 30 years, Joan Gussow has been writing, teaching, and speaking about our unsustainable food system and how to fix it. Here she tells how growing her own food and reducing her consumption have given her freedom from despair in the face of climate change and other calamities.