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Urban agriculture: a beautiful day in the agrihood
Agrihood: Blatchford, Edmonton, Alberta Developers have long built neighborhoods, especially high-end neighborhoods, around a pool or tennis courts, or a golf course. Lately, urban and suburban...
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Cities and food waste: what works and what seems not to
Food waste Food waste is a major problem, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Among other things, wasted food creates a disposal problem. It makes up about 20% of the trash dumped in American...
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Jazzing up white sauce: many meals from one basic technique
Sausage gravy Last week, I wrote that you can cook a variety of meals with just a few basic techniques. This week, I might as well let you in on one of my secrets. If you can make a white sauce, you...
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The joy of soups: how to make many soups from a few procedures
Romanian potato soup. Public domain from Wikimedia Commons You knew that food you cook from scratch is healthier and tastier than prepared food. But did you know that it can be almost as convenient?...
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Groceries are ditching plastic packaging
Plastic on a river bank Plenty of people want to reduce their use of plastic packaging. After all, it amounts to bringing trash home. Food packaging accounts for a lot of it. But grocery stores have...
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8 benefits of eating locally grown food
Photo by John Reed on Unsplash Contributed by Sarah Hancock Locally grown food refers to food grown near where you live–or, if you’re away from home, near where you shop. In other words, locally grown...
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The cost of convenience in grocery shopping
Pre-cut fruit and lots of plastic packaging Grocery shopping itself is a convenience. At least we don’t have to grow our own food and slaughter our own animals, as our ancestors did. We don’t even have...
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What happens to food waste in America?
Some rights reserved by Nick Saltmarsh. Food waste and food loss are huge problems. Worldwide, about 1.3 billion tons of food goes to waste every year. That’s about a third of all the food farmers grow...
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Regenerative agriculture: old practices become new
Using a no-till planter, north-central Iowa farmer, Tim Smith, plants soybeans into a terminated cereal rye cover crop. Using a combination of no-till planting and cover crops keeps living roots in the...
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Keeping food waste out of landfills
Food waste / Nick Saltmarsh via Flickr Globally, about a third of all the food produced is wasted. In the US, according to some estimates, the figure is about 40%. About 75% of it winds up in...
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