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Dirty Restaurants iPhone App | Sydney & NSW Restaurants Exposed
A new iPhone app will tell you if a nearby restaurant has been fined for breach of food safety standards.
The application, FoodWatch NSW, brings the Food Authority's name-and-shame list to your fingertips by using the iPhone's GPS to show you a list of restaurants near your location that have been added to the list.
The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
Food prices are climbing, and some might be looking to fast foods and packaged foods for their cheap bites. But low cost doesn’t have to mean low quality. In fact, some of the most inexpensive things you can buy are the best things for you. At the grocery store, getting the most nutrition for the least amount of money means hanging out on the peripheries—near the fruits and veggies, the meat and dairy, and the bulk grains—while avoiding the expensive packaged interior. By doing so, not only will your kitchen be stocked with excellent foods, your wallet won’t be empty.
Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit: How To Eat Them Without the Flatulence : TreeHugger
Beans are such a great source of protein, fibre and nutrients, they should be a major part of everyone's diet and you can do it without the gas.
7 Tips for Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden ∞ Get Rich Slowly
For every dollar we spent on the garden, we harvested $1.91 worth of food. We hope to improve on that significantly in 2009. Last week Kris wrote about the winners and losers from our garden last year. Today I’m sharing seven lessons we’ve learned after many years of gardening.
Healthy Foods for Under $1 - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
How tough is it to eat healthy on a budget? The advice Web site DivineCaroline gets you started with a list of 20 healthy foods for under $1.
Polyface, Inc.
Polyface, Inc. is a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
High Priest of the Pasture - New York Times
For 44 years on the western edge of the Shenandoah Valley, three generations of Salatins (of which he's the middle) have raised grass-fed livestock on rough and hilly land without recourse to an ounce of chemical fertilizer or a fistful of seed, in close touch with the soil, the seasons and themselves, using methods meant to mimic nature. The result is lush fields of unusual greenness -- even in the sodden melting snow of a late winter morning -- and pork, eggs and poultry of uncommon cleanliness and indescribably good taste.
No Bar Code
An evangelical Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road.
Food Forest DVD
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish.\nOver 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
How mushrooms will save the world | Salon Technology
Cleaning up toxic spills, stopping poison-gas attacks and curing deadly diseases: Fungus king Paul Stamets says there's no limit to what his spores can do.
Landline - 06/04/2008: Food Forest . Australian Broadcasting Corp
One of the more interesting developments in Australian agriculture over the past decade has been the growing influence of the permaculture movement.
Whether you're talking sustainable water and land management, integrated pest control or organic fertilis
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The Food Forest is a permaculture farm producing 160 varieties of organically
certified food; it is a busy centre for people interested in learning skills for a
sustainable way of life through short courses and it is the base for a
consultancy
Amazon.com: How to Make a Forest Garden: Patrick Whitefield: Books
A forest garden is a food-producing garden, based on the model of a natural woodland or forest. It is made up of fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, perennial vegetables and herbs. It can be tailored to fit any space, from a tiny urban back yard to a large
Amazon.com: Earth User's Guide to Permaculture: Rosemary Morrow, Rob Allsop: Books
the book focusses on two different real-life examples, a small suburban house and an eighty acre farm. Seeing permaculture in action in real places is very helpful.
Amazon.com: Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture: Toby Hemenway, John Todd: Books
explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds.
Moringa Oleifera: The Miracle Tree
Gram for gram, Moringa leaves contain: SEVEN times the vitamin C in oranges, FOUR times the Calcium in milk, FOUR times the vitamin A in carrots, TWO times the protein in milk and THREE times the Potassium in bananas.
Monbiot.com » The Pleasures of the Flesh
There is plenty of food. It is just not reaching human stomachs. Of the 2.13bn tonnes likely to be consumed this year, only 1.01bn, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), will feed people
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