Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance [...]

Ok… I know… I have been a total slacker on this blog for the last 3 weeks. But wait, wait, I have an excuse! I was in Montréal, I was teaching, I was learning, I was… What’s that? No excuses… Ok. I’m sorry. But at least let me make it up to you with this [...]

Making music for your dinner takes on a whole new meaning. Kids won’t eat their veggies? Try making a band instead! Thanks to Binky Holleran for the heads up on this one ; ) Watch Here

Holy Geez. Here we go some more with the fight to keep our food away from Monsanto. If you hadn’t heard about it yet, Bill HR875 is being pushed through Senate now with very little media attention. There’s a lot of misinformation about the bill currently, small wonder since it’s so cryptic to get through, [...]

Ok! So I better get going to make good on my promise to do three recipes for IOTM this month. The strawberries are just now beginning to ease up on their production and the raspberries are moving in full force. We have huge rhubarb busting out of it’s bicycle-tire planter and some pretty succulent basil. [...]

Sometimes when I see pictures of Michelle Obama I want to cry. I have never, ever had even the slightest glimmering of pride when thinking about this nation’s leaders… Until now. She dug up the white house lawn to plant an organic garden!!!! Yeah!!! This is the kind of leadership we need. This is true [...]

The strawberry is an ancient plant that is native to Europe and North America. It has a cooling thermal nature a musky aroma and a sweet/sour slightly acidic flavor. It is somewhat an unusual fruit in that its seeds are embedded on its surface. California provides 80 percent of the nations strawberries. Strawberries are one [...]

The month of June in Oregon is quite fantastic. I can’t believe the abundance of fresh food everywhere I go… Not only in my garden, but grocery stores, roadside stands and farmer’s markets abound with overwhelming varieties of greens, spring onions, herbs, and in the last week the berries have begun taking front stage in [...]

Um.. Yes… You read that right. I’m so all over this one. Even if I don’t pay to enter- I am taking it as a personal challenge ; ) I invite all of you to submit your favorite Jell-o-Mold pics to FTY as well. Stay tuned for the update tomorrow- because I’m going to combine [...]

Oh Gosh. This may be my new favorite internet distraction. Thanks to Catherine for posting this gem so I could find out about it! Food Party is everything I ever wanted from my Fine Arts degree (ahem) and…  ”a mind-bending, non-reality cooking show with Thu Tran as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary [...]

Since 1991, The Food Project has built a national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. Each year, they work with over a hundred teens and thousands of volunteers to farm on 31 acres in rural Lincoln, MA and on several lots in urban Boston. The Food Project focuses [...]

Are you ready for the truth? The Meatrix gives it to you straight- the truth about factory farming and the meat industry. Much more accessible than a lot of the meat-media out there, The Meatrix is informative, entertaining and kid friendly. Another reminder to be aware of what we’re eating and where it comes from… [...]

Food Not Bombs is a grassroots, revolutionary project that has chapters in most American and international cities and many small towns all over the world. FNB is completely community organized and made up of autonomous chapters that serve free vegetarian food as a positive action protest against war and poverty. Started in 1980 in Cambridge, MA [...]

I couldn’t go far with this blog without an enormous big up and THANKYOU!! to Heidi Swanson: Chef, Photographer, Blogger, Designer and huge personal hero. Her website 101cookbooks is one of the best cooking (and best looking) sites online (in my opinion) and it was my original inspiration for a blog and her photographs and [...]

Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist and author of Vegan Soul Food Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy and Creative African-American Cuisine and co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen… and one of my personal heroes. For the past nine he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system, [...]

Mmmmm…. I just finished having dinner with my new friend Laurie Lane (owner of Fresh and Wild Raw Foods) who is a raw chocolateer here in Portland- she was telling me about the best raw chocolate from New York by Fine and Raw and the amazing behind-the-scenes video of their production. Mmmmmm…. Check out each [...]

My friend Adam in Montreal has just recently published his fantastic book “The Fruithunters”. His obsession with rare fruit has lead him on a global adventure to find the fruits, uncover the lore and research the complex politics and cultural implications of fruit. You can get a taste test of the adventure and order his [...]

The ingredient of the month for april is Cashews!! This recipe is specially for Troy (my yoga teaching, surfer extraordinaire friend from Trinidad) who couldn’t eat enough of the stuff when I did a raw dinner while visiting Trinidad. For that dinner I used the hummus as a filling with sprouts, shredded cabbage and carrots [...]

The cashew (Anacardium Occidentale) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. The cashew is a relative to poison ivy, poison oak and mangoes. The hard seed surrounding the “nut” contains an irritant latex. The large red, fleshy organs called Cashew “Apples” attract animal dispersers and are [...]

Ok, keeping in the Halloween spirit… This is kind of gross. But so cool! Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker and an art student inspired by anatomy books and forensic museums, he uses dough, raisins, cashews and chocolate to create works that are totally edible… and also vegetarian!! Via shape + colour   [...]