The Urban Omnivore

A great way to improve your sustainable living is to grow your own food. Since most of us don’t have our own acres of land to farm on, we turn to gardening. For those of us who are “rurally challenged” (i.e. city dwellers), or just have land in short supply, there is a […]

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… and it hurts worse than we expected. After returning home from a great visit with our family in Pittsburgh, PA we were too tired and lazy to visit our usual Co-op but we desperately needed to stock our fridge for the coming week. We hopped (or rather slid) into our […]

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Community Supported Agriculture is a model of agriculture that enables a community of individuals (read consumers) to take on some of the risks, typically financial, associated with local agriculture. The individuals, usually referred to as “members” or “share-holders”, make an upfront payment to cover the materials, grower’s salary, etc. needed to run a farm […]

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There are plenty of places to buy groceries in a city. In Boston, most of us know about Super Stop & Shop, Star Market, Shaw’s Supermarket, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc. With the exception of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, all of these places have huge selections of conventional foods and varying […]

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My dad sent me an interesting article from The Washington Post this morning. The author discusses the effect of the food industry’s marketing campaigns on society (particularly the obesity epidemic that we are facing). The article points out the strength of the food industry, their massive budget, and concentrated effort to manipulate […]

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I finished the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan a few weeks ago and now I’m telling everyone I can about it. I had just finished reading my third murder book (In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger, and Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer) and […]

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