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USDA: Healthy food isn’t really more expensive
We have many excuses for not eating healthy: I’m too busy. I don’t live near a grocery store. I can’t afford healthy food. I don’t know how to cook. A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research … Continue reading
Organic Watergate: Advocates Condemn Corruption and USDA’s Cozy Relationship with Corporate Agribusinesses in Organics
The nation’s leading organic farming watchdog, The Cornucopia Institute, is challenging what it calls a “conspiracy” between corporate agribusiness interests and the USDA that has increasingly facilitated the use of questionable synthetic additives and even dangerous chemicals in organic foods. … Continue reading
Checking – In
We’re Checking-In on reaction to the stories we’ve covered in the last week … From a harrowing chronicle of life in a North Korean prison camp … to the protocols of motherhood .. to the ongoing strains of the Great … Continue reading
Brookfield Zoo exhibit goes buggy
As one who nervously eyes any spider the size of a penny, I found coming face-to-face with the mammoth animatronic Chinese Earth Tiger Spider at Brookfield Zoo‘s new “Xtreme BUGS” exhibit to be surprisingly pleasant. In fact, the spider — … Continue reading
Free Compost Workshop Comes to Santa Barbara
Come out to the free workshop on June 2nd from 10 until 11:30 a.m. at SBCC’s Lifescape Gardens 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara. The gardens are on top of the hill behind La Playa Stadium. Parking is available on site. The … Continue reading
