Growers and Grocers

Are you passionate about “going green?”
Do you go out of your way to support local farmers and/or buy organic?
Obsessed with what’s in our air?  soil?  water?
Interested in global warming or your carbon footprint?
Care about sustainable items or eco-living?
Then we have a place for you at Growers & Grocers.  Why not join our team?  We currently […]

From the entire Growers and Grocers and Well Fed Network family, we wish you a wonderful holiday season with your friends and family.  We are on vacation until January 2nd, but will return then with a bounty of eco-friendly, green and farming coverage.  Best wishes to you and yours.

The nomination period for the annual Food Blog Awards has kicked off, and you can go to our main site to cast your nominations. Continue on below for today’s daily content on Growers & Grocers.

We’re going to add a new focus to Growers & Grocers in the coming days - Green Living. We’ll cover a variety of subjects, from Earth-friendly household cleaners to saving energy to organic gardening and more. We’re excited to bring this change to our G&G readers and we think you’ll like what you […]

Just a few programming notes on what has been going on behind the scenes of the Well Fed Network lately. We have been working very hard on a redesign of the entire network, and it should be going live today or tomorrow. We’re all excited about it, and can’t wait to show […]

California is doing its best to take over the cheese market. The AP reports that with its abundant supply of milk and the nationwide demand for cheese, California could soon pass Wisconsin “to become the nation’s top cheese producer.”
In last year alone, California cheese producers created over 2.14 billion pounds of […]

This is a sad report for those of us who love green. Aside from a recent spinach recall, there is a new one involving lettuce here in the US. The Nunes Company has found E Coli in its irrigation system. While clearly bad for Nunes, this is not a good sign for […]

In 2007, should we keep the Farm Bill as it stands, or revise it? This will be the focal point in the debate about the policy for our food supply, which will be in place until 2012. What does your political representative think about the Farm Bill? You should find out.
As predicted last month, many […]

Let me begin with full disclosure - I have never had foie gras. According to Wikipedia, foie gras is French for “fat liver” and “is the fattened liver of a duck or goose that has been overfed. Along with truffles, foie gras is one of the greatest delicacies in French cuisine�it is very rich […]

It�s often very difficult to walk away from something that means a great deal to you, particularly when you feel as if you�re not quite done with it. That�s very much been my attitude towards Growers and Grocers of late, and my decision to leave WellFed for other writing opportunities.
See, I sort of feel […]