Growers and Grocers

My daughter is just beginning to eat baby food. So far, it’s Earth’s Best Organic Rice Cereal and First Apples. But ultimately, I would rather be making her baby food with fresh produce.
Therein lies the dilemma: Is it better to make fresh baby food with grocery store produce, since the growing season in the northeast […]

For the past year, I’ve been working on greenifying our lives. Safer cleansers, natural (non-antibacterial) soaps, and less waste. It’s been a tough undertaking — reusable dryer sheets just didn’t do it for us. And the ones we tried - Method - still had waste when all was said and done: the sheets themselves, the […]

Chicago did it earlier this year, horrifying fine dining experts everywhere. Now New York might be getting in, or out as the case may be, of the foie gras game.
I was forwarded an email from Ariane Daguin of D’Artagnan, a fine food purveyor in New Jersey, about a proposal that’s supposedly going to be introduced to the […]

The latest in the recent spate of food recalls is the voluntary recall of pork by an Ohio packing company. According to the Ohio Farm bureau, the Herman Falter Packing Co. of Columbus, Ohio, has recalled 1,178 pounds of pork packaged there because it might contain Listeria monocytogenes.
Specifically this is what is affected by the […]

Just as the FDA has said that spinach is safe again, they are warning consumers to avoid certain Bolthouse Farms carrot juice packages. A similar warning has been issued in Canada. The farms have issued a voluntary recall on the products in the meantime.
The product from Bolthouse Farms of Bakersfield, Calif., was identified by the […]

The principal of supply and demand regulates a lot in the business world from prices to availability of goods. A recent decision by Wal-Mart to carry organic milk under its store brand label at a discounted price is likely to drive organic milk costs down across the board, experts say.
The New York Times reported Saturday […]

When I was in high school, it was the Laundromat. For some kids it was the mall as well. Or the pool hall. For those in my mother’s generation it was the pizza joint. Teens have forever had an evolving sense of where they belonged and translated that into hangout spots like this. In truth, […]

Starbucks is blending the line between coffee shop and, well everything else, as they plan to add book sales to their repertoire this fall when Mitch Albom’s forthcoming new novel, One More Day, appears in the Frappachino making shops in early October.
Free Press columnist Mitch Albom says he is “very humbled and flattered” […]

There is something romantic about the concept of sustainable restaurants, which are restaurants that use fresh local produce – in some cases from their own farms onsite – to create daily menus for patrons. I guess the romanticism lies in the idea of food going from vine to table on the same day, as it […]

What are they?
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, biopesticides fall into three categories: microbial pesticides (microorganisms are the active ingredient), Plant-Incorporated-Protectants (genetic material is added to plants so that they naturally produce the pesticide substance), and biochemical pesticides (naturally occurring substances).
Biopesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials […]