Post Tagged with: "organic"
HPD Raid a South Bronx Community Garden
The NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) completed their raid of the Morning Glory Community Garden in South Bronx on Monday, November 7th, 2011. They pulled up kale by the roots, they trashed raised beds, and they erected a fence around the garden so the Morning Glory members could only stand by and [...]
Breakfast Tacos
Sometimes I just like to spice up my morning, hence breakfast tacos. There’s nothing incredibly, or even remotely original about this dish, other than the tortillas I use. I love sprouted corn tortillas, as they have an amazing texture and flavor. I usually keep them on hand in my freezer. Food For Life makes excellent [...]
Slow Food meets Food Justice
Tom Philpott, a writer for Mother Jones, brings together two opposite voices of the food movement. Nikki Henderson is the executive director of People’s Grocery, an “anti-poverty nonprofit in low-income West Oakland,” and Alice Waters runs Chez Panisse, a white-tablecloth Berkeley restaurant dedicated to The Slow Food Movement, serving local, sustainable and organic food. In [...]
Who are the Bioneers?
The Bioneers community has had a significant impact on my work. Every time I go, I learn something and invariably find a few gems. – Michael Pollan, Author, The Omnivore’s Dilemma & In Defense of Food In 1990, Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel founded the Bioneers Conference, which focused on pioneering the fields of biological [...]
20 New Anti-Cancer Rules
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. is the author of Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life. In Feb, 2010, he wrote an article for the Huffington Post called 20 New Anti-Cancer Rules. He describes some easy steps and tools to becoming more conscious of an anti-cancer way of life. (A disclaimer to vegans: these rules are non-vegetarian [...]
