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Stop Stressing and Start Living with These Helpful Meal Planning Hacks
How do we waste less food and less money? Meal planning can seem daunting, but these simple tips and tricks can make life easier, more delectable, and give us the freedom of mind to actually enjoy our food and leisure time.
Read MoreStop Stressing and Start Living with These Helpful Meal Planning HacksPhD Student to Farmer: Finding Your Calling in Weird Veggies
In what odd places might you find your passion? For former PhD student Arron Choi, it was his family's farm. Discovering a passion for weird veggies, Aaron's story shows that when it comes to finding our calling, we should never count out even the things that first seem odd.
Read MorePhD Student to Farmer: Finding Your Calling in Weird VeggiesNew Natural Packaging You Can Eat Rather Than Trash!
Did you ever think that you would be able to eat your sandwich and the wrapping that protects it too? Amazingly, this is now a reality thanks to edible packaging, a sustainable alternative that now offers a replacement for single-use packaging.
Read MoreNew Natural Packaging You Can Eat Rather Than Trash!Get The Most Out of Your Groceries: Easy Ways to Use Food Scraps
Wait! Before you throw away that banana peel or compost your coffee grounds, you can give them another life. Here are some simple ways to start reducing waste and maximizing your grocery budget.
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Stoking the Flames of Tradition: How Cooking Over Fire Connects Us With Our Roots
Cooking meals over open fire has long been tradition worldwide. And now, backyard chef Derek Wolf is bringing us back to our roots by bringing it back to the mainstream. His work reminds us that when you take the time to care about what you're doing—in this case, eating in the outdoors with carefully prepared food and good people—it makes everything better.
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Putting the Future of Food in New Hands: Training Farmworkers to Become Farm Owners
Creating a new life for ourselves is always possible, and nonprofit ALBA is making that possible for countless people. They're giving immigrant farmworkers the tools and the knowledge to improve their lives by helping them have organic farms of their own!
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Easy Ways to Go Green: The Compost Pick-Up Services Coming to a Stoop Near You!
Wait! Before those food scraps in the garbage, here's an easy way to make a positive impact as you go about your daily routine. Turn your food waste into a resource without having to make a compost pile in your own backyard by having it picked up and taken away, right from your front door!
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No Such Thing as “Unskilled”: The Super-Speed Farmworkers We Couldn’t Live Without
In a world of automation, there is still one central part of our lives that requires the skilled touch of the human hand: food. Your produce doesn't just magically appear on your supermarket shelves, so it’s time we met the skilled people that make that fresh food possible!
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Miss Traveling? Join This Mushroom-Hunting Adventure in Romania!
Have you been bitten by the travel bug recently? Join us on a trip to a dinner table far far away to enjoy the delicacies and adventures of a place you probably have never been to before!
Read MoreMiss Traveling? Join This Mushroom-Hunting Adventure in Romania!
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Heroes from Table Scraps: How Oysters Are Protecting NYC!
New York Harbor is the cleanest it's been in over a century and it's thanks to a delicacy many of us love to slurp down...oysters! Using nature's knowhow, table scraps, and a little ingenuity, oysters are bringing life back to polluted waters and protecting one of America's most beloved cities!
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Why Does the World Love Spam So Much?!
What can Spam teach us about our shared humanity? Whether you think it's a delicacy or a mystery meat, Spam has been brought to new culinary heights by cultures around the globe! Join us in a celebration of this strange meaty wonder!
Read MoreWhy Does the World Love Spam So Much?!Here’s Why We Should All Consider the Wonder of the Fig
Can we learn a new life-hack from how figs have managed to survive for millions of years? These inside-out-flowers (that's right), have had to forge a unique relationship with tiny wasps to help species thrive! Inside this delicious, jammy, culinary delight is a wild world you would never expect!
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