vegetables
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This thrifty trick saves my shriveled produce, every time
How to give new life to last-legs fruits and vegetables.
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The drought is so bad that the British have to eat ugly vegetables
"Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers" are all on the table.
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City officials are waging a war on gardens
We've heard one too many stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves.
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‘Weed dating’ is like speed dating, but dirtier
I don’t know what you all look for in a mate, but if one of those qualities is “a willingness to trade farm labor for the possibility of romance,” you might skip speed dating and go for “weed dating.” The AP explains: Typically, speed daters meet at a bar or restaurant and switch conversational partners […]
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Finally, a pizza you can eat three times a day
Dreams do come true: Eating pizza for every meal could be perfectly healthy. Only catch: You’d have to be eating the “first nutritionally balanced pizza.” A pizza that has seaweed in the crust. Which is to say, not exactly the pizza you’d want to eat if you were going to eat pizza every day. Created […]
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Faux-vintage ad shows you where you can shove that celery
I was kind of gutted when I took a second look at this ad and realized it couldn’t possibly be for real (as far as I can tell, it’s from a comic called Devil Chef), but it’s still kind of hilariously disgustingly awesome.
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Beautiful chart tells you how to eat seasonal (in the U.K., at least)
This beautiful interactive chart from U.K. organization Eat Seasonably may not apply precisely to your climate, and it’s pretty British in other ways too — “courgettes” are zucchini, FYI. But I love the concept — a handy calendar showing you what fruits and veg are in season at what times — and I love the […]
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Meet a pesticide even conventional vegetable farmers fear
If a new round of genetically engineered corn is approved, it will be bred to withstand huge quantities of 2,4-D, a pesticide that has the potential to drift and kill vegetables in fields as far as two miles away.
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For New Yorkers, a farmers market on your phone
An experimental online marketplace hopes to fill two gaping holes in the community-supported agriculture business model: choice and convenience.