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Eating Squash Leaves and Other Useful Plant Bits

05/07/2012

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Written by Deborah Aldridge

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I was raised by the children of farmers, and my parents and grandmothers taught me well. They often said to never throw away anything you can eat, and you'd be surprised at what you can eat. Most of us throw certain parts of garden plants in the compost or even in the garbage, but not all cultures are so wasteful. In some countries, the parts we discard are delicacies. Just like Native Americans and long-ago farmers used every part of an animal, there are quite a few parts of vegetable plants, usually discarded, that are very much edible. 

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Urban Farming and the Locavore Movement

03/08/2012

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Written  by  Deborah Aldridge

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What is a Locavore? It's generally defined as someone who only eats food grown within 200 miles of their home, while Hyperlocavores may reduce that to 50 miles or less. More and more people are buying local, not only to avoid the chemicals and GMO's prevalent in factory farmed food, but also because the further produce is shipped, the more nutrition it loses. To supply locavores with food grown closer to home, urban farms are springing up in back yards and abandoned lots all across the country.  

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