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In Mallory McDuff's recently released book, Sacred Acts: How Churches are Working to Protect Earth's Climate, stories from across North America explain how honoring the Creator means protecting the planet.  In this article originally published in The Citizen Times,  Mallory draws a comparison between "The Hunger Games" movie which was filmed in …

It's a damp, dreary, chilly, day on the West Coast. It seems like eons since the last lovely, fresh garden salad, and I haven't even started ordering my seeds for spring planting yet. Far from growing, everywhere I look things are in a state of advanced, soggy decay. I don't know about anyone else, but I could sure use some sunshine in my life …

Like many of us, I have occasionally been guilty of buying the occasional box of Chinese Mandarins or  off-season package of snow peas. I steadfastly ignore my inner voice - you know the one that berates you for all the excessive food miles and says "it's from China - you don't really believe that organic label, do you"? After all, the kids love …

A storm of controversy has erupted over a Mother Jones article referencing a Cornucopia study exposing the use of a potentially dangerous toxin used in manufacturing many soy foods, including veggie burgers.

From the report:

Hexane is strictly prohibited in organic food processing, but is used to make "natural" soy foods and even some that are …

In the heat of last summer, I surveyed our extremely prodigious dandelion crop and was possessed with the urge to turn weeds into wine. A little time on the internet yielded a recipe that would take care of the dregs of our rhubarb as well, and a mission was born. A couple of hot, sunny summer afternoons were whiled away plucking and collecting …