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One of the great things about a northeastern winter is the strong sense of community the harsh weather inspires. A great way to feel that sense of community is to check out your local organic farming organizations. Hang out with small farmers, sample delicious local foods, attend workshops by renowned experts, and learn a thing or two to improve your farm, garden, or home. Many of our authors are leading these workshops. Take a look at the current list of ... |
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Submitted by webeditor on January 23, 2012 04:07 PM
It's National Pie Day folks — not to be confused with Pi Day — and your pie-loving friends here at Chelsea Green thought we'd share with you one of our favorite fruit pie recipes.
The following apple pie recipe was adapted from Michael Phillips' book The Apple Grower by the foodies over at The Washington Post and is named for Michael's farm in northern New Hampshire. Michael has a new book out this month — The Holistic Orchard. Our email newsletter this week highlights ...
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Submitted by jmccharen on January 23, 2012 02:55 PM
This spring is shaping up to be one of our most exciting seasons yet, with new titles to fill important niches in your sustainable living library. Are you already an avid sauerkraut fermenter, but looking to raise your microbial game to the next level? Check out The Art of Fermentation from Sandor Ellix Katz! Are you a Slow Money advocate, but curious as to how you can make the concept of local investing into a fruitful reality for your own finances? Check out Local Dollars, Local Sense! Are you in the ...
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Submitted by dpacheco on January 23, 2012 01:14 PM
The following is an excerpt from Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Katz. It has been adapted for the Web. The classic way to enjoy miso is in the form of miso soup. The comfort and healing that Jewish grandmothers have proverbially offered in the form of chicken soup, I have more often found in miso soup. No food I know is more soothing. When you make miso soup, miso is the last thing you add. In its simplest form, miso soup is just ...
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Submitted by jmccharen on January 23, 2012 12:00 PM
The following is an excerpt from Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman. It has been adapted for the Web. No one wants second best. A slimy cabbage from a dingy corner of the basement will never compete with the crisp specimens on the vegetable shelf of the supermarket. Wilted, dried-out carrots look unappealing next to the crunchy, plastic-wrapped beauties in the refrigerator. When home storage is unsuccessful, a case can be made for artificial refrigeration. But the cabbage need not be slimy nor ...
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Submitted by jmccharen on January 23, 2012 09:01 AM
One of our latest books isn't by just an amazing activist-author, it's by an amazing think-and-do-tank as well! Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era takes a hard look at current technology and explains, carefully and objectively, how it's possible to leave fossil fuels behind in just 40 years -- and why it's necessary. But far from being a dreamy manifesto (which, don't get us wrong, we also appreciate!) Reinventing Fire is full of practical solutions. Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute have investigated the renewable energy possibilities and ...
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Submitted by Shay on January 21, 2012 04:38 PM
Today marks the second anniversary of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United. Yes, it's true, our little devil-may-care campaign spending hellion is now entering his terrible twos. And it shows. If any one felt as if the United States was a plutocracy wearing democracy as a fig leaf, Citizens United stripped away the remaining fragments of illusion and laid it all bare. The problem, is do enough people actually care? Cries from the dozens of Occupy Wall Street protests and encampments around the ...
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Submitted by webeditor on January 19, 2012 03:23 AM
The following is an excerpt from Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice. It has been adapted for the Web. Once again we shall See the snow melt Taste the flowing sap Touch the budding seeds. Smell the whitening flowers Know the renewal of life. Following the Hunger Moon, just before the first thaw after the cold winter, comes the Sap Moon. Though snow and ice still cover the ground throughout the North, the very first ...
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Submitted by Shay on January 18, 2012 10:30 AM
We've been asked by some of our readers if Chelsea Green will go on strike today in solidarity with dozens of larger sites, and hundreds of smaller ones, protesting two proposed pieces of federal legislation that have the potential to greatly infringe upon the Internet and free speech.
The answer is no, we're not blacking out the site, but we do stand with our fellow online free speech advocates and organizations in opposing the legislation and support efforts to ensure these bills never see the light of day.
Besides, today is more like ...
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