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Guerrilla Grafters Make Community Ornamental Trees Bear Fruit

December 26, 2011

In a subversive form of food production, the Guerrilla Grafters have been craftily grafting fruit bearing branches onto otherwise unproductive ornamental fruit trees in the city.
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  1. Guerrilla Stickering: These Come From Trees
  2. Trees, Tunes… and More Trees (PPB #37)
  3. Untapped Abundance: Three Steps to Adopting a Neighbor’s Fruit Tree
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Alicia’s Random Reading List – December 2011

December 14, 2011

I’ve had a bunch of things on my mind this week thanks to some blog posts and articles that have popped up on my radar.  I thought several of them are worth sharing with our readers.

The first is around BPA, organics, pesticides and the food we f…

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Rooftop and Community Gardens Can Help Feed Urban Areas

December 12, 2011

A sustainable food chain will need to be a mishmash of different types of farming from regional farming to individuals tending small community garden plots. Rooftop and community gardens cut the “food miles” of the produce for urban residents.
Related posts:

  1. The College Community Garden: 6 Schools Growin’ their Own
  2. Rooftop Gardens a Part of Paris’ Biodiversity Push
  3. Freedom Gardens and the 100 Foot Diet Challenge
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Business Buzz: McDonald’s to Charge for Happy Meal Toys to Evade San Francisco Ban

December 1, 2011

A new law comes into effect in San Francisco today: One that law bans toy giveaways in kids’ meals high in fat, salt and sugar. The Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance was passed by the Board of Supervisors last fall. Chain restaurants no longer will be able to give away free toys with Happy Meals and other children’s meals that don’t meet the city’s strict nutritional standards. But, McDonald owners in the San Francisco area have come up with a crafty way to evade the law.

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Congress Fails Our Children by Claiming Pizza is a Vegetable

November 28, 2011

Recently, America has had to come to terms with the fact that apparently, Congress thinks that pizza is a vegetable. It’s a decision that’s raised a lot of eyebrows – the tomato paste used for sauce doesn’t really seem to counteract the crust, cheese and pepperoni that make up the rest of a slice of pizza.

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Does Picky Eating Lead to Allergies?

November 28, 2011

I have two kids:  one a healthy, adventurous, vegetarian and the other a picky eating omnivore.  I, myself, was a picky eater as a child.  I used to think that picky eaters were a result of laxative parenting; however, my own children have taught me there is more to it than that. A new study [...]

Does Picky Eating Lead to Allergies? is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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Sweet Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Design

November 25, 2011

There’s no doubt: people are excited about building their own DIY, inexpensive ovens for baking pizza, bread, and other delicious foods. For all of those folks, I want to highlight this particularly unique design for a wood-fired pizza oven, built in a greenhouse.

Related posts:

  1. How To Build Your Own Cheap Outdoor Pizza Oven
  2. Wood Heat Stoves: 4 Reasons You Should Consider Heating with Wood
  3. How to Make Your Own Solar Cooker
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Hank D and the Bee: A Thanksgiving Underground Railroad

November 24, 2011

More Thanksgiving-related info From NaturalPapa: Family Thankfulness Activities for Fall From EcoSnobberySucks: Hunting your own food: A liberal converts From EcoChildsPlay: How Can I Detox My Thanksgiving Diet? From Eat.Drink.Better: The Anatomy of a Genetically Modified Turkey [Infographic] …and in case you’re not familiar with the above-reference railroad (for shame): History of the Underground Railroad [...]

Hank D and the Bee: A Thanksgiving Underground Railroad is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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Flipping The Bird: 8 Turkey-Free Thanksgiving Treats

November 22, 2011

Thanksgiving without the turkey is like Groundhog Day without the… OK, bad analogy but you get my drift. Not everyone enjoys the basted beast, however, so it can be a real challenge trying to satisfy those who’d rather flip off the bird than eat it. These 8 turkey-free Thanksgiving treats (and I use the term loosely) make for some great gobbling at any meatless meet & greet.

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Review: No-Spill Insulated Kids Food Container by Contigo

November 17, 2011

Kids Food Jar from Contigo®

We have been using inexpensive reusable plastic containers in our kids lunches for a number of years to be as waste free as possible. We have generally been using Ziploc or Glad snap together containers to send food in f…

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