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Those frozen pies that seem to fill the supermarket frozen display bins, where do they come from, and how are these frozen fruit pies made. We discovered one company, the Willamette Valley Fruit Company , in our own backyard that processes fresh picked berries, and ...
Green Living
Organic Food
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The baking season is upon us, with Thanksgiving
just ahead. In this video, Catherine Schon, of Sassafras...
Catering , demonstrates how to make a tasty homemade pie crust. Now for some of you this will be old hat, but for many who are rediscovering the baker within, this will be very useful to ...
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The baking season is upon us, with Thanksgiving just ahead. In this video, Catherine Schon, of Sassafras Catering , demonstrates how to make a tasty homemade pie crust. Now for some of you this will be old hat, but for many who are rediscovering the baker within, this will be very useful to ...
Green Living
Our previous look at the history behind organic agriculture delved into the grassroots community’s courtship of federal recognition and the consummation of that relationship with the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) in 1990. Today’s discussion will pick up in the light of the morning after ...
Green Living
Organic Food
General Mills
This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the ...
Green Living
Organic Food
Ashley Terry (right) and Rachel (wife)
This is the second installment of my three-part series on manual pollination in Japan from the upcoming feature, “WWOOF! The Movie”. It reveals the way in which pollen is extracted from the anthers of the apple (or any other fruit) flower through a ...
Green Living
Organic Food
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains her reasons for doing so.
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Green Living
Recycling
Organic Food
How the Federal Government came to regulate the organic industry
My previous column on the history of organic agriculture wrapped up with a look at the burgeoning national market that emerged during the 1980’s. Counterculture back-to-the-landers and die-hard traditionalist farmers were ...
Green Living
Organic Food
Fall is in full swing and Winter isn’t far beyond, I’ve been enjoying local apples, squash and weekly pots of soup. While this time of year usually encourages folks to slow down a bit I hardly have a moment to myself but was thrilled when I was able to recently carve out a little time to read ...
Green Living
Organic Food
California
Cooking Up a Story: Stories
They are found in almost every kitchen, but surprisingly there’s only one U.S. manufacturer. Follow us inside the Best Manufacturers plant for a rare visit to see how a whisk is made.
A factory of whisks. Wire, wire everywhere. How do they get those ...
Green Living
Organic Food
My wife and I have traveled around the globe for the last 5 months and filmed our experiences within the WWOOF! organizations of France, Japan, Italy, and India, and are working on a feature film documenting this journey. “ WWOOF! The Movie ” is about a collective of organizations ...
Green Living
Organic Food
Japan
Apple
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Five million family farms have been lost since the 1930’s. As the population of family farmers continues to age, there is also a critical shortage of young farmers to take their place. Michael Paine is a rare breed; he doesn’t come from a farming family, and ...
