Growers and Grocers

Want to eat more locally grown and produced foods but aren’t sure where to get the goods? Here’s a list featuring the top 5 places to find the local foods you’re looking for:
1. Down on the Farm: Pick-your-own (PYO) farms, farmers markets, farmstands, and roadside garden stands are all excellent places to go to for fresh local produce. You may […]

I decided to kill my vegetable garden in early July. I was going on vacation and I’m tired of the hot, sweaty uphill push to keep plants alive for dwindling yields in the 100-plus-degree days of July and August. This year, I chose to treat these two months as if they were January and February […]

If you’re looking to curb the carbon dioxide emissions from your summertime grilling, gas is a popular choice. “But,” wrote Brendan I. Koerner in a June article for Slate, “if you step back and consider the whole production cycle, then certain types of charcoal may well be the greener cooking fuel.”
Charcoal’s advocates say tree products […]

The Nature Conservancy understands how hard it is to continue to make green choices in our lives.  What they have done is asked for everyday people to submit their ideas and tips on how to incorporate more eco-friendly choices into our everyday lifestyles. 
Tips on how to be an Everyday Environmentalist include:
Care for your body – […]

There are mysteries in nature that are simply awe-inspiring: Penguin fathers braving the Antarctic superfreeze to incubate their eggs. Two-hundred-ton blue whales subsisting on microscopic krill (about 10,000 pounds a day). Bioluminescent jellyfish, fungi, insects, fairies. (Just kidding about that last one, folks.)
And then there’s that thing that bees do. Actually, bees do many, many things that are incredible. The […]

It’s no secret that as shoppers grow more interested in sustainable and organic foods, producers and manufacturers become more eager to jump on board.
The Wall Street Journal’s recently-published list of “Five Green Goods Not Worth the Added Green,” is a good starting place for consumers weary of “greenwashing” and wary of products that simply don’t […]

Steel Wire and tempered glass, the Platner Coffee Table was designed in 1966 as part of the Warren Platner Collection, a series of sculptural furniture which became modern, continually relevant classics.  Produced since its inception by Knoll, the Platner Coffee Table is Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certified. 
Particularly useful for those who inhale, the Greenguard Environmental […]

Getting dinner. Photo: Author

When I talk or write about veggie gardening, I often get wistful comments from folks who don’t have room or time for a full-bore garden patch. Grow something in a pot, I suggest. But I suspect they think a couple of pots isn’t worth the effort. They want a garden that will […]

 
When I read about the new Shades cases for iPod - durable, fully recyclable, available in 9 different colors - I was more than a little enthusiastic to give them a test drive. I like the idea of a product that lasts long enough not to end up in a landfill a couple of weeks after its shipping […]

In the August issue of Food & Wine, there are quite a few articles to help with your efforts to go green.  One I found interesting was about selecting Green Wine.  The author goes to great efforts to explain what qualifies as a “green wine,” as well as organic wines. 
In addition to the article on […]