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Grok

A Game-Changer for Local, Artisan Food Producers

February 10, 2010

For the last year I’ve been won­der­ing how the inter­net enables local food sys­tems to com­pete with the main­stream indus­tri­al­ized food sys­tem. And to be hon­est I haven’t seen that ser­vices like Twit­ter or Face­book have done much to change this, although the poten­tial for con­struc­tive community-building is present. But out of the blue I […]

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Celebrity Chef Life on Plastic

December 7, 2009

High pro­file chefs in New York cel­e­brat­ing life moments with a cam­era crew– an after­hours gath­er­ing at WD0-50 turns explosive.

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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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Fortify Immunity with Real Food

November 2, 2009

Organic Pro­duce: Novem­ber Report
Novem­ber 2nd, 2009 — Bar­bara Feiner

You’ll make the most nutritious—and delicious—produce choices when you buy locally grown organic fruits and veg­eta­bles that are in sea­son. It’s also the most eco­nom­i­cal way to shop the pro­duce aisle.
Mush­rooms and oranges join this month’s peak-season list, while egg­plant moves off.
Here are the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Control […]

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Robotic Mule Future Organic Farm Helper?

October 30, 2009

In the spirit of Hal­loween, here’s a kinda creepy video of a robotic mule– very life­like move­ments, flash legs. I want one for my future farm. The part in the mid­dle where some guy kicks it and it strug­gles, but keeps going almost made me feel bad for the robot.
I also won­der how the carbon […]

Tagged as: robot

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Titan the Robot Dances, Sings (Video)

October 22, 2009

via engadget.com
Quite a dash­ing robot– next singing waiter at fine din­ing establishments?

Posted via web from Robert’s posterous

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Your Body belongs to the World of Love

October 21, 2009

Your Body belongs to the World of Love
“A body, love insists, is nei­ther a spirit nor a machine; it is not a pic­ture, a dia­gram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an expla­na­tion; it is not a law. It is pre­cisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, […]

Tagged as: soil

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Squash Sublime– Food and Photography

September 25, 2009

About a week ago I picked up this fas­ci­nat­ing squash from Chino Farm in Ran­cho Santa Fe– I thought it was so pretty that it needed to be pho­tographed by a pro. So I asked my pho­tog­ra­pher friend Alex Guy if he wanted a go, and just look at the beau­ti­ful results!

If you want to […]

Tagged as: Farming, food, homegrowninitiative

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

September 20, 2009

The Vert­erra com­postable plates were a hit at the wed­ding shower– so nice to see peo­ple jazzed about using renew­able party supplies! #

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The White House Heirloom Garden

September 19, 2009

I didn’t know that the cur­rent White House veg­etable gar­den is the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s vic­tory gar­den in WWII. They’re using seeds from Mon­ti­cello which Jef­fer­son col­lected from around the world. I really enjoyed this mini-documentary about the White House gar­den with chef Sam Kass:

Tagged as: whitehousegarden gardening michelleobama

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