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Asparagus
King Corn
Supersize Me
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
How to Cook Your Life
Food Inc.
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The Garden
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Bad Things in Food (15)
Corn and the Cheapness of Food
Ethanol: Energy Waste
Harvesting Cash: The Washington Post series
How Big Ag is Poisoning the Water
Life Next to a Hog CAFO
Livestock as Threat to Environment: UN Report
Monsanto vs. Schmeiser
Our Failing Farm Policy
Samuelson on Farm Subsidies
The Farm Bill via Michael Pollan
The Threat to Small Farms
U.S. Ag Policy: Down on the Farm
Who Gets Farm Subsidies: Evironmental Working Group
Why Salads Cost More Than a Big Mac
Why the Meat Giants Thrive - Philpott
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Compost & Gardening Video (3)
Compost Cab
The Slow Cook Composts--Monkeysee
The Slow Cook Grows a Vegetable Garden--Monkesee
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Composting with Worms (7)
Cathy's Composters
Friendly Worm Guy
Red Worm Composting
Vermico
Vermicomposting in NYC
Vermicomposting: National Gardening Association
Worm Woman
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D.C. Food Blogs (11)
Bread for the City
Chowhound--Wash/Balt
DC Foodies
DC Gastronome
Eat Washington Blog
Food Rockz
Hounds Tooth Gourmet
Red Wattle
Salty Girl Cooks
Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide
Vaca Estupenda
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D.C. Guide (1)
D.C. Guide
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Farm to Table (6)
Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Farmer's Market prices Portland, OR
Farmer's Market prices Seattle
National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
Robyn Van En Center - CSA Research
Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
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Fats Cholesterol & Low-Carb (12)
Carb Wars Blog
Cholesterol Myths
Fat can be good for you
Gary Taubes bookmarks
Gary Taubes Webcast UC Berkeley 2007
Insulin Resistance: The Real Culprit
Lard Lovers
LDL Particle Test
Livin' la Vida Low-Carb
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
This is why you're fat.com
What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
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Fighting Obesity (6)
Hunger in the U.S.
Jamie Oliver's TED talk
Kids' Eating Patterns More Healthy?
Let's Move
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Washington Post Series: Young Lives at Risk
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Food Blogs (53)
Accidental Hedonist
Austin Bush
Blog For Rural America
Chews Wise
Chow.com
Civil Eats
Culinate
Cured Meats
Ethicurian
Food & Water Watch
Food First
Food News - Environmental Working
Food Politics
Food Renegade
Homegrown.org
I heart Kale
Internet Food Association
Jacqueline Church
John Thorne's Website
Just Braise
La Vida Locavore
Last Night's Dinner
Meanwhile, Back in the Kitchen
Michael Pollan
Mighty Foods
Mulch Blog
Obama Foodorama
Organic Consumers
Organic to Be
Over a Tuscan Stove
Peak Food
Pomain
Rambling Spoon
Spot On: Kevin Weeks
Stephen Cooks
Stuffed & Starved
Sustainable Table
The Atlantic: Food
The Book I'm Not Reading
The Food Times
The Last Appetite
The Nourished Kitchen
The Salted Cod
The Traveler's Lunchbox
The Whole Hog
Thoughts on the Table
UN Food & Agriculture News
Urban Simplicity
US Food Policy
What Geeks Eat
White Trash BBQ
Women's Garden Cycles
World Watch--Brian Halweil's Blog
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Food Gardening Resources (21)
American Community Gardening Association
Community Greens
Find a Community Garden
Food Security Learning Center
GardenWeb
Garlic: Everything You Need to Know
Green Guerillas
Growing Potatoes
GrowVeg.com
Heirloom Seed Sources
International Potato Center
Kitchen Gardeners International
Midwest Permaculture
Mother Earth News
My Organic Garden D.C.
Onion Gardening
Pruning Tomatoes
Revive the Victory Garden
Seed Distributors
Sharing Backyards
Vegetable Gardener
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Food Justice (3)
Fallen Fruit
Socio-economic status of low-energy diets (PDF)
WhyHunger.org
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Food Preservation (9)
Bacterial Fermentation - The Process
Canning as Political Act
Fankhauser's Cheese Page
Home Food Preservation - Penn State
National Center for Home Food Preservation
Return of the Root Cellar
Stoneware Crocks
Storing Vegetables - U. Missouri
Wild Fermentation
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Free and Foraged (10)
Brits Crack Down on Wasted Food
Dealing with a Nation's Food Waste
Finding Wild Food in San Francisco
Freegan Movement
LA Freegans -LA Times
LA Guerrilla Gardening
Neighorhood Fruit
Urban Edibles - Portland, OR
Urban foraging
Wasted Food
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Backyard Wisdom
Black Swamp Girl
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Golden Gate Garden
Grow it, Eat it
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Idaho Gardener
May Dreams Garden
Peabody School Garden
Soul of the Garden
Susan Harris' Sustainable Gardening
Sustainable Gardening
Washington Gardener
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Gardening Blogs (34)
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Future House Farm
Gardent Rant
Granny's Garden School
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Illinois & Chicago
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Local Food Dude
Local Food in Season
Local Harvest
Local vs. Regional Philpott
Locavores--San Francisco
Meats: Commodity, Branded, Pastured
Michael Pollan on Sustainable Agriculture
New York State
Om Organics--San Francisco
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Organics: How to Make the Movement Relevant
Pacific Northwest
People's Grocery--Oakland
Polyface Farms
Project for Public Spaces
Rodale's New Farm
Salt Lake City
Seattle Tilth
Shannon Hayes
Society for Agriculture & Food Ecology
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
The Good Life Center
Urban Permaculture Video--Seattle
What the financial collapse can teach us about the food system
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Good Things in Food (17)
A Conversation with Michael Pollan
American Grassfed Association
Cooking in Cast Iron
Defining Moment for Better Food - NY Times
Eat Wild: Grassfed Livestock
Eating as a Political Act
Iowans Countering Hog Confinement - Philpott
Lard: Wall Street Journal
Local Slaughterhouse
Media That Matters: Good Food
RAFT: Renewing America's Food Traditions
Real Food Challenge
Reimagining Our Food System: Part 1
Retrovore
The Story of Food Democracy Now: NY Times
Vegetable Orchestra
Vegetable Orchestra Live 2
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Have Garden Will Cook (30)
Calendula & Concrete
Coltivi
Compost Bin Blog
Dandelion Haven
Down on the Allotment
Edible Landscaping w/ Charlie Nardozzi
Elements in Time
Farmgirl Fare
Fast Grow the Weeds
Gardenpunks
Garlic Breath
Grow. Cook. Eat.
I'm Mad and I Eat
Joannas Food
Jumbo Empanadas
Kate Hill
Kitchen Gardeners International
L'Atelier Vert
Living Small
Modern Beet
My Kitchen Garden
My Room with a View
Purple Podded Peas
Rappahanock Cook
Rolling in the Dough
Salt Lake City Veggies
Sand Creek Almanac
Sarah's Homestead
Skippy's Vegetable Garden
Surviving (on) Massachussetts
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Hunting (2)
Bull Moose Hunting Society
Meet Your Meat
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Industrial agriculture (12)
Changes in Iowa
Concentration in Food and Agriculture (PDF)
Concentration of Agricultural Markets (PDF)
Factory Farming Campaign - Humane Society
Factory Farms Interactive Map
Industrial Farming - Barbara Kingsolver
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
Saving Our Soil
The Meatrix
Toward a Post-Carbon Agriculture (pdf download)
Vertical Integration - Big Meat
Where Nitrogen Comes From
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Learning About Composting (27)
Backyard Composting (pdf download)
California Backyard Composting
Compost Guide
Compost Guy
Composting Fundamentals
Composting Leaves: Washington Post
Composting Tips: Taunton Press
Cornel Soil Health
Edible Landscaping - Composting
EPA Guide to Composting
Garden Klog
GardenWeb Composting Forum
Green Culture Composters
Leaf Composting: New Jersey
Make Your Own Compost Tumbler
Mastercomposter.com
Nature Mill Composter
Seattle Tilth
The Compost Bin Blog
The Pfeiffer Center
The Power of Leaves
The Rubbish Diet
The Slow Cook Composting Videos
Things to Compost
U.S. Composting Council
Urban Composting Guide - NYC
Urban Home Composting
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Local & Sustainable Blogs (19)
Chefs Collaborative Blog
Chelsea Green News
Cincinnati Locavore
Cook Here and Now
Cookin' in the 'Cuse
Eat Close to Home
Eat Local Challenge
Edible Nation
Farm to Philly
Food Person
Foodshed Planet
Forage Oakland
Hen and Harvest
I Heart Farms
Little Compton Mornings
Our Farm Adventure
Retrovore
Sugar Mountain Farm
Yankee Food
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Local & Sustainable Resources (16)
100 Mile Diet
Acres USA
Alternative Farming Systems: USDA
Carla Emery--Country Living Encylopedia
Center for Bioregional Living
Cheapavore Challenge--New York Magazine
Community Roots Boulder
Dark Days Challenge
Ecological Farming Association
Feeding a Family from the Home Garden via Garden Rant
Food Routes.org
Foodies' Ideal: Local and Organic
Fresh
Green Thumb, NYC
Technology, Nature and Sustainable Agriculture
Yale Sustainable Food Project
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Local Food Sources (21)
Arlington Farmer's Market
Community Supported Agriculture (D.C. Area)
D.C. Area Farmer's Markets
D.C. Area Meat Sources
D.C. Food Finder
Eat Washington
Eat Well Guide
Forest Fed Pork
Freshfarm Markets
KOL - Grassfed Non-Kocher & Halal
Local Foods - CSAs
Local Harvest
Maryland's Best
Mt. Pleasant Farmer's Market
Smith Family Farm - Beef
So. Maryland So Good
South Mountain Creamery
Takoma Park Farmer's Market
The Organic Butcher
Wild Green Yonder
Winter Farmer's Markets D.C. Area
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Making Bread (4)
A Year in Bread
Breadtopia
Building an Earth Oven
The Fresh Loaf
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Municipal Composting (9)
Composting Food Wastes - San Francisco
Delaware County, PA
Jepson Prairie Organics
Lower East Side Ecology Center
NYC Compost Project
Portland, OR Commercial Composting
Portland, OR Yard Waste (pdf download)
San Francisco
Seattle
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Pastured Food (4)
Animal Welfare Approved
Avoiding Factory-Farmed Foods
Benefits of Grassfed Meat: Mother Jones
White Oak Pastures
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Professional Chefs (4)
A Mighty Appetite
Book the Cook
Seriously Good
This Time It's For Real
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Raw Milk (5)
Raw Milk Facts
Raw Milk Overview via Culinate
RealMilk.com
The Complete Patient
Weston A. Price Foundation
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Sausage Quest (3)
British Sausage Week
The Oldest Recipe for German Bratwurst
The Sausage Maker
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Soil Issues (2)
Soil Health
University of Minnesota Extension Service
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Suburban Farming (6)
A New Suburban Farmer
Eco-Mama
Future House Farm
One Straw Revolution
Weekend Farmer
Your Backyard Farmer
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The Buzz About Urban Bees (2)
Raising Bees in an Apartment
Urban Bee Gardens
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The Case Against Pesticides (2)
Beyond Pesticides
The Organic Center
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The Last Fish in the Sea (32)
Beyond Salmon
Blogfish
Blue Ocean Institute
Carl Safina
Choosing Wisely: Shrimp
Collapse of Fish by 2048
Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions
Deep Sea News
Earth Echo - Alexandra Cousteau
Ecofish
Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector
Farmed and Dangerous
Farmed Salmon Exposed
Fish or Cut Bain
FishBase
Fishonline
Food & Water Watch Seafood Buying Guide
Greenpeace Report on Supermarkets (pdf download)
KidSafe Seafood
Lobster Conservation
Mercury Calculator
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
No Fish in My Dish
Oceana
Omega3 Sources
Perils of Aquaculture
SeaWeb
Shark Finning - Daily Kos
Sustainable Seafood Recipes
The Green Guide
The Winding Glass
The World Fish Center
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The School Lunch Disaster (33)
2009 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: American Dietetic Association (pdf)
2009 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment: USDA (pdf)
Bill to Ban Junk Foods in Schools: Rep. Woolsey
Chef Ann Cooper on Ted Video
Child Nutrition Act Re-Authorization
Child Nutrition Initiative
Child Nutrition Reauthorization Recommendations (pdf)
Demand increasing for subsidized meals
Fed Up: The School Lunch Project
Fod Research and Action Center
GAO Report on School Lunches: 2003 (pdf)
Improvements to School Meal Safety Needed
Institute of Medicine School Meal Standards
Institute of Medicine: Review of National School Lunch Program
Jackie's School Food Blog
Junk Food in Schools: Center for Science in the Public Interest
Lobbying in School Lunches: Video
National School Lunch Program: USDA
Nemours: Nutritious Lunches
Rethinking School Lunch: Center for Ecoliteracy
Sam Kass on school meals
School Lunch Initiative
School Lunch Politics: Susan Levine
School Lunch Program: Center for Science in the Public Interest
School Lunch Reform
School Lunch Resources: About.com
School Lunch Talk
School Lunch Talk
School Nutrition Association
Selling Obesity at School
That Lunch is Nasty
Time for Lunch
Who Benefits from School Meal Subsidies
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Thinking About Food: Resources (20)
Ag Observatory
American Farmland Trust
Center for Food Safety
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Environmental Working Group
Farm and Food Policy Project
Food and Society Fellows
Food Democracy Now
I Love Farms
National Family Farm Coalition
Nina Planck
North American Food Policy Council
Oldways Preservation Trust
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Public Health Action
Sustainable Agriculture
The Baum Forum
The Obamas' First Harvest
What the financial collapse can teach us about the food system
Women, Food & Agriculture Network
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Threatened Planet Earth (18)
All Our Stuff -video
Benefits and Costs of Climate Stabiilzation
Climate Change & Food Supplies
Climate Change & Reproductive Rights
Climate Progress
Copenhagen Diagnosis
Dire Climate Changes Predicted
Enviro Cost of Shipping Groceries
Global Change.gov
Hell on Earth
Impacts of Global Warming
Implications of Climate Change for Food Crops
Is Local Food Really More Enviro-Friendly?
Paul Krugman on Climate Change
Stabilize at 350 ppm
Strategies to Address Global Warming
Tappening: A Crusade Against Bottled Water
The State of Climate Science
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Traditional Farming (18)
Farmer's Almanac
Farming Friends
Four Season Farm - Barbara Damrosch & Eliot Coleman
Grow Better Veggies - Love Apple Farm
Henbogle
Log Cabin Homestead
Maria Rodale's Cooking and Views
Moonmeadow Farm
New Farm
Notes from Zone 4
Sheep Woman
Sugar Creek Farm
The Beginning Farmer
The Rural Blog
Tiny Farm Blog
Touch the Earth Farm
Two Frog Home
Wooly Pigs
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Treading Lighter on Planet Earth (29)
Bee Creative
Born Famous
Carfree Family
Casaubon's Book
Confessions of a Hoarder
Crunchy Chicken
Down with Basics
Eco-Coach
Effervescence
Everyday Simplicity
FoodShed Planet
Freecycle
Green as a Thistle
Green Guerillas
Groovy Green
Hedges Happenings
Lighter Footstep
Little Blog in the Woods
Living Plastic-free
Mother Nature Network
My Flight from the Grid
No Impact Man
Riot 4 Austerity
Self Sufficient Urbanite
Suburban Entwife
Take a Bite Out of Climate Change
The Compact
The Slow Movement
World Watch
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Urban Farming (34)
Backyard Chickens
City Farmer
City Planning for Food
City Slicker Farms
Common Good Gardens D.C.
Edible Estates
Farming the Concrete Jungle
Field to Fork
Food Deserts: Detroit
Going Off Da Grid Janice
Growing Home - Chicago
Growing Power
Hen Waller
Mad City Chickens
Murray Hill Row-by-Row: Lawn Sharing CSA
New Urban Agriculture - NYC
New York City - NewYorker
Path to Freedom
San Francisco Grow: Community Gardens
Sharing Backyards D.C.
SharingBackyards.com
Sidewalk Sprouts
Sustainable Urban Gardens
The Food Project
The New Farm - Chicago
Urban Agricultural Planning
Urban Chickens - NY Times
Urban Farming
Urban Garden Share
Urban Gardening in Detroit
Urban Hennery
Vacant Lots - San Francisco
Vertical Farming - Time Magazine
Will Allen of Growing Power
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Website Construction (2)
Keri Marion
Website Consruction
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Wellness (7)
Becoming Whole
Diana Dyer
FoodFit
MSG Myths Debunked
The Daily Vegetable
USDA Nutrition Facts for Raw Foods
World's Healthiest Foods
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With Kids in Mind (29)
A Generous Helping - D.C. Capitol Area Food Bank
Better School Food
CATCH Coordinated Approach to Child Health
Chef Ann
City Blossoms
Cooking for kids in Berkeley
Decline in School Lunch - Philpott
Dietary recommendations for children
Drink of Water
Foodie Tots
Garden of Wonders - Portland, OR
Getting Kids to Eat Better - Grist
Granny's Garden School
Great Big Vegetable Challenge
Healthy School Lunches
Healthy Schools Campaign
Improve School Foods
Learning Gardens - Portland, OR
Little Foodies
No Lunch Left Behind
Planet Health - Harvard University
Pure Food Kid's Workshop
S.F. Student Food Guidelines
s'Cool Food
Studio City Garden
Sustainable Table - Teacher Resources
Teens Cook Around the World in Boston
The Edible Schoolyard
Two Angry Moms
Berkeley