Agave Nectar: Friend or Foe? By Emily Powell If you’ve been paying attention to the “health foods” aisle of your grocery store, or you’ve stayed updated on your favorite vegan recipe website, or you happen to subscribe to the vehement lamentations of Dr. Oz, you’ve probably seen or heard a lot about a particular sweetener…
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How to Beautify Your Veggie Garden By our friends at Fix.com Think your vegetable garden has to be all straight rows and boring crops? Think again: Flowering plants have a place in the vegetable garden. And many flowering plants are edible, too—meaning you can eat them and enjoy their beauty. Annuals reward in a vegetable…
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99: Dr. George Brooks on AgTech and Aquaponics Founder and President of the NxT Horizon Group, Dr. George Benjamin Brooks Jr. holds an earned Ph.D., in Wildlife and Fisheries from the School of Renewable Natural Resources at the University of Arizona and is an established social, environmental, economic and political leader and business consultant. With…
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98: Michael Judd on Edible Landscape Design Michael Judd has worked with agro-ecological and whole system designs throughout the Americas for the last 20 years focusing on applying permaculture and ecological design to increase local food security and community health in both tropical and temperate growing regions. He’s the founder of both Ecologia, LLC, Edible…
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97: Jodi Torpey on Blue Ribbon Vegetables Growing vegetables worthy of entering competitions. – – – – Jodi Torpey is an award-winning vegetable gardener, craftsy gardening instructor, and the founder and editor-in-chief of WesternGardeners.com. In addition to the two books she authored, her garden writing also appears in digital and print media. Since 2010 she’s…
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96: Molly Cole on Starting a Small Farm in Washington Molly comes from a long line of farmers in Washington state. She grew up on a farm with chickens, cows, pigs and the occasional turkey. Molly now has two boys and her own acre in Spokane where she raise chickens, honey bees and of course,…
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95: Larry Santoyo on Permaculture Design Larry has been a teacher and practitioner of Permaculture Design for the last 28 years. After a career in law enforcement, Santoyo went onto land use planning and was mentored by Permaculture’s founding father, Bill Mollison. Santoyo went on to teach Permaculture with Mollison around the US and Australia.…
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94: Tristram Stuart on Food Waste, A Global Scandal Tristram Stuart is an international award-winning author, speaker, campaigner, and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food production. His books, The Bloodless Revolution (2006) and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (2009), have been described as “a genuinely revelatory contribution to this history of…
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93: Diana Rodgers on Homegrown Paleo Cooking. Healthy nutrition through sustainable dishes. – – – – Diana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist living on a working organic farm outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook: Over 100 Gluten Free, Seasonal Recipes and a Complete Guide to Growing Your…
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92: Casey Beck & Austin Blair on ‘The Organic Life’, a Documentary Documenting Food System Stories Casey is a director and producer of independent documentary films, highlighting untold stories. She premiered “The Organic Life” to sold-out crowds at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival in 2013. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Santa Cruz…
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