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Move over kangaroo, horse, and nutria - there's a new meat on the supermarket shelves at Budgens in the UK - it's squirrel. Squirrel has been eaten in the U.S.

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch

The name Jacuzzi may be most often associated with spas and hot tubs, but in the Carneros region of Sonoma, California, locals know that the family surname also means great wine.

Vineyard owner Fred Cline--the grandson of Valeriano Jacuzzi--began making wine even before he was even old enough to drink it.

Photo: from the website GrowFood.org

My husband and I used to buy all of our vegetables in the summer from a woman who had a huge garden in her backyard. She'd put a sign out on the highway when she was open for business and we would stop in and buy whatever she had picked that day. Last year she stopped selling her produce because the work was too much for one person.

All photos by author - taken at WOMAD 2010 festival

Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to be an agitator shaking things up on the outside?

all photos: Matthew McDermott

If you're a New Yorker or just a fan of community gardening no matter where you live, pay attention: Under newly proposed rules from the New York City Parks and Recreation Department and Department of Housing Preservation and Development, many of the

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Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than those found in

Image Source: Darren Hester

Dear Pablo: I heard a rumor that you can incubate store-bought eggs and actually hatch chicks. Can this be true?

Contrary to common belief, a rooster is not required for hens to produce eggs.

photo: J. Novak

Whether we like it or not the food that we eat doesn't just affect our waistlines, it effects the way that we feel. If you're mindful of the way you feel after munching on a Hershey bar and a coke then you're less likely to eat junk food because the highs and the lows become too hard to bear.

Image: NASA, public domain.

In 2008, 415 Dead Zones Were Identified
NASA has just released a new map of oceans showing aquatic dead zones around the world (places where water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can't survive, something we've

photo: Joris-Jan van den Boom via flickr

Even though locally-adapted, diversified agriculture and farming is a key component of both food security today and in a warmer more climate-stressed future, the Big Ag trend is still towards less crop diversity and more uniformity.