Posted by theo at 3:58 am
Dec 232009
Well sometime tomorrow afternoon “the fam” will descend onto my home and into my life. This includes guests from North Carolina, Virginia and Western Mass. We’re going to location A to do a party thing then back to my place to “party on”. The challenge to keep them all fed and happy while we compete at a variety of games (looks like Scrabble, Yahtzee and Table Hockey will be the big ones). Forget the Kennedy’s and touch football .. too tame.. you know there’s something very disturbing about the way every person in the bunch [...click to contimue reading...]
Posted by theo at 1:57 pm
Dec 182009
If you are looking for a nice gift you may want to consider Certified Organic Vegetable, Herb or Flower Seeds. These are from a totally organic sources and are guaranteed not to be involved in any genetically modified “this or that” whatsoever. Check out the web for the many reputable suppliers.
Posted by theo at 1:43 pm
Dec 172009
In 2007 we posted a list of ideas to make your Christmas Greener. This excellent post , if we do say, can be found here. Well looking back how are things this year as a result?
Posted by theo at 6:58 pm
Dec 162009
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has a program where they actively assist farmers to transition to organic production. This includes grants plus expertise from financial and organic farming experts. Just imagine you’re a conventional farmer, kind of scary to go organic and literally risk the farm by venturing into the unknown. This program shows them the way and helps minimize costly errors. More about this is linked here.
Posted by theo at 3:41 pm
Dec 162009
We went out and purchased two Granny Smith Apples. One organic and the other conventional. The fist thing we noticed was the price difference, a whopping 30%. Yeah.. but when you’re talking about an apple this amounted to about twelve cents. No big deal. Anyway, we ran a taste test and here’s what we found.
Posted by theo at 4:01 pm
Dec 152009
Whole Foods Market, the Organic Behemoth is starting to feel your pain (or it’s pain from sales volume). So to make the hurt go away a bit they are offering online coupons. I suggest that you check this out before getting your recycle bag and running down to this place. To check out the coupons go to the link here. Related Link: Organic Test Kitchen Post “Around the world people continue to consume more organic foods“
Posted by theo at 3:51 pm
Dec 152009
Target stores were busted for advertising Silk Soymilk as Organic even through Dean Foods which makes the stuff switched from Organic to Non-Organic Soybeans in 2009. Now a lot of consumers who want to go chemical free just kept purchasing their Silk without knowing what they were doing because they simply don’t check the labels every time (and nowadays you have to check them every time). And apparently Target has the same problem. They were advertising this Silk stuff as organic because they used an old photo in their ads. Sheesh! The complete AP Story is linked [...click to contimue reading...]
Posted by theo at 2:25 pm
Dec 142009
We tried the long forgotten Apple Dowdy recipe as described in Della Lutes’ Book “The Country Kitchen”. This is her Aunt’s Recipe from the 1890′s as she describes it and it was certainly around for many years prior to this as it passed from generation to generation. Now Della did not specify Organic “This” or Organic “That” in her recipe simply because everything was organically grown back then. But unfortunately, now we must, since we really have two classes of foods to choose from. One could say ”old-school vs. chem lab” but I won’t … so everything organic and please hold the [...click to contimue reading...]
