They’re using goat power to cut down invasive plants in Gaithersburg. Anne Arundel and St. Marys counties and the Maryland State Highway Association are also employing herds of goats from a company called Eco-Goats. They eat invasive plants like Japanese Stiltgrass, Mile-A-Minute Vine, Autumn Olive and Oriental Bittersweet. The video illustrates how the goats provide [...]

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While packaging makes up 40 percent of municipal waste streams in the US, avoiding packaging is sometimes impossible. Nearly all the food we buy in the grocery store is packaged, leaving us no choice but to buy packaged food that’s not always recyclable. in.gredients revolutionizes grocery shopping as we know it. Our goal is to [...]

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Robert True, one of the CSA founders, operates Blueberry Gardens. They are now open for U-pick. Biodynamic blueberries – yum. Lots and lots to pick this season. $4/pint and $8/quart. Berries available from June to August. Call ahead 301-570-5468 or visit them online at Blueberry Gardens.

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Some timely tips from Kate McDonough, author of The City Cook: Big City, Small Kitchen. Limitless Ingredients, No Time. More than 90 recipes so delicious you’ll want to toss your takeout menus and Editor of TheCityCook.com, via the blog the kitchn. CSA newbies can get discouraged by expecting the same food we’d buy at the [...]

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Guidance from food blog food52, shows how you can get 3 meals, starting by roasting a chicken, beautifully illustrated with photos. Food52 is written by New York Times food reporter Amanda Hesser, co-author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook and her co-author Merrill Stubbs, who is food editor at Herb Quarterly. Herb Quarterly? These [...]

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“America’s current system of food production – overly centralized and industrialized, overly controlled by a handful of companies, overly reliant on monocultures, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, chemical additives, genetically modified organisms, factory farms, government subsidies and fossil fuels – is profoundly undemocratic. It is one more sign of how the few now rule the many. And [...]

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Half of all processed tomatoes that California exports go to Canada. At the same time, the U.S. imports $36 million of Canadian processed tomatoes yearly. The US imports $19 million of Canadian cherries a year, while Canada is the second most important destination for California cherries. 20% of Californian table grapes are sent to China. [...]

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Sometimes all it takes is one person — an individual with passion and vision — to plant a seed so that an entire community can benefit from a bountiful harvest. Add to the mix a dedicated couple from neighboring Silver Spring, a community of like-minded individuals and 80 farmers in Lancaster County, Pa., and well, [...]

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The typical American uses 99 gallons of water a day for activities like washing clothes, bathing, toilet-flushing and cooking. But that amount doesn’t even come close to the amount of water used on a daily basis by electrical power plants. Each day, coal, nuclear and natural gas plants use about five times the amount of [...]

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Some call her ‘food’s Erin Brockovich.’ Robyn O’Brien speaks at TEDxAustin about food allergies and asks what’s in our foods now that wasn’t there when we were kids. You might be surprised.

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