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Are you in Hartford on Wednesday? Free breakfast!

By On April 24, 2012 · 1 Comment

Earlier this month, Hartford [pictured, and see me waving?] was named one of the 25 hardest working cities in the country. (For those keeping score, we’re No. 2, according to Total Cereal and Parade Magazine, who would know such things. The list was compiled from analysis of total number of [...]

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If you could pay anything you want for a restaurant meal…

By On February 24, 2012 · 1 Comment

…what would you pay? Panera Bread is opening at least two more pay-what-you-want franchises to help fight hunger in a dignified way. The assumption is that people without much money will pay less and people with more will pay their share plus, voluntarily.

So far, the experiment has worked elsewhere [...]

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Take a farm tour!

By On February 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Visit cows! See where your milk comes from!

On President’s Day (Feb. 20), Graywall Farms of Lebanon is hosting a free farm tour from 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Graywall is a member of The Farmer’s Cow, a group of six local dairy farms that produce hormone-free milk, half7 [...]

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What to do with Monsanto

By On January 31, 2012 · 8 Comments

Agri-giant Monsanto’s business practices are described by Ronnie Cummins, at Organic Consumers Association, as

earth killing, market-monopolizing, climate-destabilizing rampage.

and he asks:

Should we basically resign ourselves to the fact that the Biotech Bully of St. Louis controls the dynamics of the marketplace and public policy?

Farmers in Haiti have said

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Holy cow! I spend waaaay too much on food

By On January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Go to Mother Jones and see how your food spending compares to that of others. (Note: Hartford is not among the listed cities, so I took a guess).

(And I thought I’d score better because I mostly eat at home and I don’t buy booze. Yeesh!)

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What you’re eating versus what they tell you you’re eating

By On January 13, 2012 · 5 Comments

That food in the fast-food ads is not what you’re actually handed when you order.

And thanks, Mike the Heathen, for the link.

And, as an added bonus: Check out the zombie cheeseburger from McDonald’s, which sat on a shelf for a year and held up rather nicely. [...]

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It’s an early Christmas present!

By On December 21, 2011 · 4 Comments

You should eat more fat!

And thanks, Jane, for the link.

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What other blog gives you Jesus and bacon?

By On December 7, 2011 · 10 Comments

Just this one, pretty much. In one of this blog’s earlier lives, we somehow got off on the tangent about how much we all love bacon — those of us who eat pork, that is. (It’s perfectly fabulous if you don’t eat pork; we love you, too.)

And now, Sis. Sherry sends

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A little more reading with today’s piece…

By On December 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

To read the piece, go here.

To more about CME Associates, go here. To read more about John Guszkowski, go here. To read more about Eastern Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development Council, go here.

To read more about what it means to be a locavore, go [...]

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