The Milkweed Diaries

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Growing Nontoxic Food...starting with seeds


I've been spending lots of time with seed catalogues lately. Two of my favorites that I'd forgotten about til I got their catalogues in the mail are:

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
(a worker-owned co-op selling organic heirloom seeds, and just up the road in Virginia)

and

Abundant Life Seed Company
(also 100% organic seeds, heirlooms, and wonderful, though across the country)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Foodprint/Food Energy Meter

Here's a quick, simple little video from Local Harvest on ecological foodprint and the energy required to produce, process, and transport non-local food:

Watch Your Food (odo)meter