Monthly Archives: September 2008

Food, Inc.

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2008
From the “Sustainable Table blog”:http://www.sustainabletable.org/blog/?p=1500: bq. As part of the Slow Food Nation’s weekend, Participant Productions (producer of such films as ??Fast Food Nation?? and ??An Inconvenient Truth??) premiered several clips from their upcoming film “Food, Inc.”:http://www.participantmedia.com/films/Coming+Soon/517/FoodInc, a documentary about our food system. bq. From what was shown, this film will portray the problems with [...]
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Rot ‘n’ Roll: How to Start Composting

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2008
Grist offers a brief guide and a list of resources on “how to begin composting”:http://www.grist.org/advice/how/2008/08/19/?source=daily. If you don’t already compost, the biggest immediate benefit is that you reduce your waste stream significantly, particularly if you compost both kitchen waste and yard waste. A secondary, somewhat longer term benefit is that you can create valuable food [...]
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Cultivating the Web

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2008
The Sustainable Table’s Eat Well Guide has put together a great handbook for people interested in “using the web to promote sustainable eating”:http://www.sustainabletable.org/blog/?p=1477. You can download “Cultivating the Web”:http://www.eatwellguide.org/downloads/pubs/080811_CultivatingTheWeb.pdf in PDF form.
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Lead may lurk in backyard gardens

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2008
Via the Organic Consumers Association, a link to this article in the Boston Globe: Lead may lurk in backyard gardens. Normally I try to avoid sounding alarmist, but I do encourage people to think about the issue of lead contamination, particularly if you live in an urban area. If you’re starting a vegetable garden give [...]
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City of Mobile Taking Applications for Fall Farmers Market Vendors

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 10, 2008
Guidelines and applications have been issued for vendor spots at the City of Mobile’s Fall Market on the Square. The market is a producer-only market, meaning that the vendors must personally grow or produce the items that they sell. The fall season will run on Saturdays, October 4 – November 22, from 8am until 12pm. [...]
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Your Plants Have Had Enough Water

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 5, 2008
In today’s Press-Register, Bill Finch offers some tips and reminders on “how to care for your waterlogged plants”:http://www.al.com/press-register/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/122060616813230.xml&coll=3.
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