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Community Farmer's Market Uses Tech Tools to Gain Competitive Advantage

For nearly 40 years, the Belleville Farmer's Market in Belleville, IL has been delighting its customers. In recent years, the produce industry has seen dramatic changes. Now the community market faces fierce competition from big box stores and large grocery chains. In order to compete, the market is using technology tools to gain a competitive advantage. READ»

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Show Me the Honey: Sainsbury's Hive Network Aids Bee Crisis

Bees are the buzzing guardians of the food chain--without them, some of our favorite fruits and vegetables (strawberries, almonds, watermelon, and cucumbers, to name a few) would never get pollinated. That realization--along with a ...READ»

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Fast Facts: June 2010

IN BLOOM The rose is the traditional birth flower for June. It's also the state flower of Georgia, Iowa, New York, and North Dakota. IN VERSE "To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." -- ...READ»

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Burgerville Offers Personalized Calorie Counts on Receipts, You Want Thighs With That?

Think about what you hope for when you buy a meal from a local fast food joint--speed, convenience, taste, and maybe even sustainably sourced ingredients if you're lucky. But a low-calorie meal? Probably not that high on the ...READ»

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SVA Student's "Spoonful" Project Helps People Eat Local, Seasonal Foods

SVA MFA Design student Carli Pierce created a concept that encourages sustainable meals, one ingredient at a time.READ»

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What's Strong, Sustainable, and Headed to a Museum Near You? Bamboo!

Two exhibitions on either coast feature community-built structures made with the trendy superwood.READ»

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Stahlbush Brings Biodegradable Packaging to the Frozen Food Aisle

It's always healthiest to eat fresh food, but Stahlbush Island Farms is making a noble attempt at greening frozen produce with the first ever biodegradable bag for frozen fruits and veggies. The BioBag, developed as part of a ...READ»

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Eating Healthy in South Miami can help Prevent Deafness

No matter what may think, if you are in the presence of too much loud noise, you WILL eventually lose your hearing. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that South Miami is one of the loudest cities in the U.S especially highly ...READ»

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Frog Design Imagines Urban Food Systems of the Future

What if getting affordable, local food was as simple as going to the nearest corner store or stopping by a food cart on the way home from work?  Frog Design imagines that this is possible with Mobile Market and Stones Throw ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: The Seasonal Food Calendar

An easy-to-use chart for finding a low-carbon shopping list.READ»

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PepsiCo's Designer Salt to Make Potato Chips Healthier

The masses have spoken, and they want healthy food. At least, that's what PepsiCo thinks--the company plans to cut down on sodium, saturated fat, and sugar in all of its brands, while whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, ...READ»

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Surprise! Harsh Supermarket Lights Add Nutrients to Spinach

Think the spinach in supermarkets isn't as nutrient-packed as the stuff that comes straight out of the ground? Think again. The unpleasant fluorescent lighting found in grocery stores actually enhances the nutritional value of ...READ»

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At Cleveland Mall Green Market, Sustainability Is the New Hot Topic

Yesterday, we reported on the Cleveland Galleria mall's plan to build a massive urban greenhouse where retail shops once stood. The real story, it turns out, is what the two people behind the Gardens Under Glass project have planned ...READ»

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Colopure Cleanse

A Healthy digestive system promotes good overall health. Colopure Cleanse will remove all of the toxic waste and buildup from your colon. When you cleanse your colon you are restoring good health and balance to your digestive ...READ»

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Cleveland's Galleria Mall Turns Lost Retail Space Into Greenhouse Farm Stand

The first batch of mall-grown veggies went on sale last week. READ»

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Eat-onomics With Deborah Kane of FoodHub, a Match.com for Locavores

Think of it as the Match.com for the locavore movement: FoodHub connects small and regional producers with food buyers for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, public schools--even state prisons. We spoke with Deborah Kane, VP of food ...READ»

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Demolishing Density in Detroit: Can Farming Save the Motor City?

So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven ...READ»

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Organic Gardening

More and more consumer is looking for organic foods such as fruits and vegetables. Although organic crops are much expensive than ordinary fruits and vegetables people continuously buy organic crops.READ»

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Eat-onomics With Dave Corsi, VP of Produce at Wegmans

Founded in 1916 as a small family grocer, Wegmans has grown into a $4.8 billion company with 75 stores spread across the mid-Atlantic. Wegmans has long worked with local growers to provide fresh, locally grown produce to its shoppers. ...READ»

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CHERYL EVE LANDAU COLE - About the Digestive System

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Tech Life | Sima Diane Sistani

Tech Life follows the daily routines of the world's Fastest movers and shakers to find out what products make them click -- and scroll and surf, too.READ»

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Who Finances a Product Like Eleanor's Garden?

Eleanor's Garden is the dream of a friend of mine who has been in the earth moving business and decided he'd like to make it possible for people to garden in containers and small spaces. He devised a patent-pending drainage ...READ»

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Did you ever wonder how the body digests meat?

Are raised to get the most meat, ahead. They are givens hormones and antibiotics. Corn and grain nourish is laced with good food and structure. They eat their goal, they go back to misplace import? Well, change your modern food ...READ»

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Fashion Jewellery: jewellery's today and future

All most well-known fashion  jewellery-houses are introduced in every largest contemporary world?S money, and their number is still increasing. Celebrities and movie-stars, who regularly grow in the reports, promote not at all ...READ»

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Precious fashion jewellery today and forever

All most well-known fashion jewellery-houses are introduced in every leading contemporary world?S money, and their number is still increasing. Celebrities and movie-stars, who regularly surface in the gossip, promote not at all their ...READ»