“Why not give me a choice besides french fries or french fries?” Morgan Spurlock asked the American food industry and regulators in his 2004 fast food exposé Super Size Me. President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2011 begins to answer that question.

Of particular interest to slow food activists and locavores is the administration’s plan to invest $400 million, through public-private grants into the development of super markets, farmers’ markets and other health food stores across the U.S.

The financing should help small businesses …

Tags: budget , EcoMeme , farmers market , fast food , food , FY2011 , health food , USDA

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Hot time, late summer in the city!

Except for those dreaded Friday nights when all that’s on your buff arm is your reusable canvas shopping bag.

Lumbering home from your hood’s green grocer, you pass that trendy Indian bistro and spy handsome couples in the window on double dates. They’re nursing ginormous chalices of red wine and laughing up a storm, eyes tearing from the tandoori and terribly clever banter. You feel resentful. You like red wine, too.

Take heart, neo nester. It’s …

Tags: al fresco dining , Annie Somerville , cooking , drinks , entertaining , farmers market , Green's Restaurant , grilling , menus , organic , San Francisco , summer , sustainability , wine

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Earth Day humbuggery aside, what are you doing on April 22nd? Here’s a list of treehuggin’ ideas and entertaining events across the country to celebrate our planet while having a blast.
Green Apple Festival
Uniting green advocates from ten cities from coast to coast, the nationally-coordinated Green Apple Festival is the largest Earth Day celebration in the country. While it began as a single event in New York City three years ago, the major metropolises of Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Los …

Tags: Earth Day , event , exhibit , farmers market , festival , green

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Just when you thought a website like Etsy was fulfilling in satisfying your every desire to buy unique and handmade, Foodzie, a food marketplace shows up and tantalizes us with their “artisan producers and growers.”

Foodzie co-founders Rob LaFave, Nik Bauman and Emily Olson (twentysomethings all) started the online farmers market to connect farmers and food artisans from all over the country. Now, with over 35 producers (“and more in the pipeline,” says Olson), Foodzie can say their success in being the middleman is also to our benefit …

Tags: artisans , farmers market , Foodzie , gluten free popcorn , Michele's Granola

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We crave convenience. Some of us are able to go out of our way to shop, live and act greener, but for a lot of very busy people, “going out of their way” is just not an option.

Enter pocket markets. These are single-stand farmers’ markets serving up fresh, local produce and eggs in places like government buildings, college campuses and neighborhood street corners every day of the week. Pocket markets are a perfect option for people on the go who don’t have the luxury of spending their Saturday morning …

Tags: farmers market , food , FoodRoots , pocket market , shopping , sustainable

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I’m a regular at the Farmers Market in my hometown. The vendors know what I like “Granny or Fuji, red or green, heirloom or cherry” and welcome me each Sunday with an update on their specials of the week.

It’s only if I’ve run out of something that I’ll reluctantly buy produce from the grocery store. This happened a few months ago when my brother called last-minute to tell me he was coming to town in two days.

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Tags: cooking , farmers market , food , organic

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