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The Best Sprouting Kits for Beginners

Posted by Lisa Roberts-Lehan, May 17, 2012
Sunflower Sprouts

Sprouting: It’s not just for hippies and raw foodists anymore. Walk through your local farmers market or flip through a recent issue of your favorite cooking magazine: You’ll see a lot more than scrawny alfalfa sprouts layered in soggy veggie sandwiches. Today, home cooks and professional chefs alike are composing eye catching and palate pleasing dishes featuring these highly nutritious tiny shoots, sprung from an array of nuts, beans and grains.*

Growing your own sprouts is an easy, sustainable and economical way to enjoy these nutritional powerhouses. They’re full of concentrated vitamins, minerals, enzymes, trace elements, amino acids and proteins; organic sprouted seeds are often easy to digest and can be grown in the kitchen all year. It’s hard to get more local than that! Read more »

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Weekly Round Up 5.11.12

Posted by Tory L. Davis, May 11, 2012
Farmers Market Fantasy Come True

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

  • New Locavore Index Rates Top States – Using a state’s number of farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offerings per number of citizens, Vermont was deemed the best state for local eating. Iowa, Montana, Maine and Hawaii followed to complete the top five; Florida came in last, even though it grows much of the nation’s citrus, strawberries and tomatoes. Read more »
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TOPICS IN THIS POST: Farmers Marketsjunk foodLet Us Eat LocalobesityProbiotics
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The Best of Spring’s Super Greens

Posted by Lisa Roberts-Lehan, May 10, 2012
Ramps

In most cultures and spiritual traditions, spring is a time of rebirth, renewal and purification; it’s no surprise that farmers markets across the country are suddenly bursting with artichokes, asparagus, arugula, watercress and spring onions. All these vegetables cleanse and prepare our bodies for warmer temperatures. If you are curious about seasonal eating, visit your local farmers market and check out the abundant displays of organic green produce. Read more »

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From Slaughterhouse to Sustainable Sanctuary: Chicago’s The Plant

Posted by Erin Kuschner, May 8, 2012
Aquaponics bed - The Plant

There are a few ways Chicago’s The Plant describes itself: part vertical farm, part research and education space, part food business incubator. Also in its description? Former meatpacking plant.

Once a 93,500-square-foot slaughterhouse, the brick Union Stock Yard building now lies at the other end of the spectrum, serving as the Windy City’s first entirely self-sustaining vertical farm with hopes of going off the grid in the next four years. Read more »

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TOPICS IN THIS POST: aquaponicsChicagoself sustainingThe Plantvertical farm
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Weekly Round Up, 5.4.12

Posted by Tory L. Davis, May 4, 2012
Now That's a Fish Counter

Here are some of the best food stories we came across this week:

    • Greenpeace Releases Its Fish Counter Scorecard – For the first time since the inception of Greenpeace’s Carting Away the Oceans ratings, two retailers actually received a “good” score for sustainable seafood practices: Safeway and Whole Foods Market. In last place was BI-LO/Winn-Dixie.
    • USDA Ending Pathogen Testing for Produce Via Budget Cuts – The Microbiological Data Program that tests about 15,000 fruits and vegetables for E. coli and other dangerous pathogens will probably end in the fiscal year 2013. The Senate Appropriations Committee decided not to fund the $5 million program, which provides close to 90% of all bacterial pathogen data about produce.
    • Californians Poised to Vote on Prop to Label All GMO Food – The Right-to-Know campaign has gathered enough signatures on its petitions to get a prop on the Nov. 6, 2012, ballot that would require manufacturers to label all foods containing GMO ingredients sold in California.
    • Anti-Bottled Water WeTap App Finds Closest Water Fountains – As part of a commitment to stop landfills from overflowing with water bottles, Evelyn Wendel created an app that allows users to bookmark drinking fountains using GPS and Google Maps, rate the quality of the faucets, and share the news with other users.
    • Study Details Which Countries Consume the Most Meat – The Economist reported that overall worldwide consumption of meat is on the rise. Surprisingly, the country that eats the most is not the U.S. (which came in second). Luxembourg leads the globe, at 136.5kg per person. India was last, at 3.2kg each.

What did we miss? Let us know in the comments below, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for links like these all week long.

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TOPICS IN THIS POST: appBottled waterfood safetyGMO FoodMeat
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Vigilant Eats Gets Vigilante with Oatmeal

Posted by Amy Sung, April 30, 2012
Image courtesy of Vigilant Eats

Whether it’s a healthy breakfast you’re in search of or just a wholesome snack, Vigilant Eats Superfood Oat-Based Cereal is fueling the food revolution in more ways than one.

Acknowledging the relationship between health and food to be “harmonious yet non-lucrative,” Vigilant Eats attempts to defy “the interests that wish to see the public mentally and physically dependent on drugs, junk foods, GMO’s, and pesticides” [and] “wish to use their power to squash those promoting health and self reliance” with its super-convenient product that makes a statement.

The 100 percent kosher and organic cereal is full of gluten-free oats and oat flour, goji berries, cacao nibs, hemp flour, coconut palm sugar, yacon powder, maple powder and cinnamon. What it’s free of: Soy, dairy, additives, preservatives and refined sugar.

From the messaging and the convenience the packaging offers, right down to what’s inside, we’re betting that food activists and time-starved health nuts alike will love what they find in the 3-oz. orange cup (which comes with a folding spoon). Just add cold water or milk.

We say, “Right on, Vigilant Eats.” As it says on the lid of the cup: “Delicious justice.”

To search stores across the country where Vigilant Eats is carried, or for more information, go to vigilant-eats.com.

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It’s Getting Real at the Whole Foods Fish Counter: No More Red-Label Seafood

Posted by Jessica Colley, April 27, 2012
Five Fish

In celebration of Earth Day, Whole Foods Market made a big change at the fish counter: The stores no longer sell seafood with red warning labels, as part of their commitment to ocean-friendly seafood.

Whole Foods initially partnered with the Blue Ocean Institute and Monterey Bay Aquarium to create a color coded system with green, yellow and red labels to help buyers become aware of the sustainability of their prospective dinner. The red-rated seafood denoted unsustainable fishing practices or overfishing of a species. Read more »

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TOPICS IN THIS POST: Blue Ocean InstituteSustainable SeafoodWhole Foods Market