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November 2009

Bibimbap | CelinaBean

November 23, 2009

for the bibim­bap sauce: 3 table­spoons Korean chili paste 2 tea­spoons shiro (white) miso 1 table­spoon sugar sesame oil a lit­tle water to smooth things out

via celinabean.com

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Flickr Photo Download: Great Garbage Patch

November 21, 2009

via flickr.com
Couldn’t help but notic­ing Los Ange­les on this map– I would think most of the garbage come from the West Coast. Which means we should try to fig­ure out how to do some­thing about this plas­tic abom­i­na­tion.
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Update from Jared:
These dis­turb­ing pic­tures by pho­tog­ra­pher Chris Jor­dan por­tray the real­ity of […]

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Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow

November 20, 2009

Like humans, ants use bac­te­ria to make their gardens grow

MADISON — Leaf-cutter ants, which cul­ti­vate fun­gus for food, have many remark­able qual­i­ties.
Here’s a new one to add to the list: the ant farm­ers, like their human coun­ter­parts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bac­te­ria to make their gar­dens grow. The find­ing, reported this week (Nov. 20) in the […]

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Olive harvest underway in Sonoma

November 20, 2009

Olive har­vest under­way in Sonoma
Author: Jean­nette E. Warn­ert
Thurs­day Novem­ber 19 2009
The Sonoma Press-Democrat ran a brief story today about the begin­ning of the olive har­vest in the North­ern Cal­i­for­nia County bet­ter known for vine­yards. Although olive pro­duc­tion in the area is no match in size for the long-established grape indus­try, the crop’s nov­elty and qual­ity attract […]

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Lovely Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes

November 16, 2009

After a pleas­ant morn­ing trim­ming salad leaves from the gar­den, I decided to exper­i­ment with a recipe for pump­kin pan­cakes. The main cri­te­ria was they had to be the most fluffy and deli­cious pan­cakes in the world, but also con­tain a bit of good nutri­tion. Luck­ily I had on hand a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent flours […]

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Garden Thriving After Post-Rabbit Apocalypse

November 15, 2009

It’s only been a few weeks, and the lit­tle gar­den has exploded! I sorta just left it alone for a week or two, and when I went out to plant some basil, I nearly fell over in shock– the arugula was rock­et­ing upwards, the red leaf romaine was roam­ing in mas­sive new leaf. I can’t […]

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Will Obama Walk His Talk on Organics?

November 13, 2009

Will Obama Walk His Talk on Organ­ics?
“I was just read­ing an arti­cle in the New York Times by Michael Pol­lan about food and the fact that our entire agri­cul­tural sys­tem is built on cheap oil. As a con­se­quence, our agri­cul­ture sec­tor actu­ally is con­tribut­ing more green­house gases than our trans­porta­tion sec­tor. And in the mean […]

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Better Meat or No Meat?

November 10, 2009

In her recent New York Times op-ed, The Carnivore’s Dilemma, Nico­lette Hahn Niman makes a com­pelling case for pur­chas­ing more respon­si­bly raised meat. The argu­ment is basi­cally that most peo­ple will never stop eat­ing meat entirely, so bet­ter that they at least become aware of how their meat (and other food) is processed. Michael Pollan […]

Tagged as: cows, Farming, meat, memes

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How-to: Window Farming

November 9, 2009

Here’s an inter­est­ing video about a unique sys­tem to grow food in indoor, urban settings.

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Take Action | Pesticide Action Network North America

November 5, 2009

Mon­santo & CropLife men have no place in gov­ern­ment
Despite cam­paign promises to the con­trary, Pres­i­dent Obama has nom­i­nated to two key posts “Big Ag” indus­try insid­ers who come straight from the chem­i­cal pes­ti­cide and biotech­nol­ogy sectors.

Islam Sid­diqui — cur­rent VP of sci­ence and reg­u­la­tory affairs at CropLife, and a for­mer lob­by­ist — has been nominated […]

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