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CSA Season Approaches

I don't have to tell most of you, it's still freezing in most parts of the country (here in Atlanta we got an unprecedented snowstorm last weekend!) but believe it or not, now is the...

Yes, We Chicken

When I told Tony, my neighbor, that I wanted to get chickens, his response was a litany of reasons why I should not: Noise. Smell. Bird flu. One by one, I dismissed each of his fears...

Valentine Beets for Cold Hands and Warm Hearts

The short dreary days of February are a good time to think about the foods, and the friends, that warm you up — body, heart, and soul. And what is more warming than soup? Soup...

It's Easy to Get Greener: Q&A with Ed Begley, Jr.

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, actor-activist Ed Begley, Jr., has done a lot of unconventional things to spread the word on how to live a greener life. When he pedaled his bike...

'Garbage Warrior' Turns Trash Into Houses

Would you live in a house made of empty beer cans, old tires and discarded soda bottles? Garbage like this is what renegade architect Michael Reynolds transforms into "earthships"...

Truly Great Pumpkins

Pumpkins have been hijacked by October for that trick without a treat, the Halloween Jack-o-Lantern. Now that the imposters (bred for their size, color and substantial stem, not their...

Hunter Gatherer

They rise like periscopes from another world: wild mushrooms. Things of beauty, gourmet temptation and just a pinch of malice, fungi have the power to capture the imagination and draw...

Transition Town

Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson realized the American Revolution had failed to provide institutional mechanisms to keep the creative spirit of insurrection alive in the...

The ABCs of CSAs

Say “CSA,” and you’ll probably picture a monthly basket overflowing with a local farm’s fruits and vegetables. Not so anymore. “Community supported agriculture”...

The Future of Food is Now

It had all the makings of a horror flick — mounting music designed to make palms sweat and stomachs flip, “mad scientists” engineering a monster that inevitably escaped...