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Are you a 'sustainable' family?
on Mar 19, 2009 in Earth-friendly Family Dynamics NPR's Marketplace is looking to talk to Portland families: I am looking for a young family to profile for an upcoming series we’re producing about whether the traditional American Dream is sustainable. It’s a series of vignettes profiling people...
The one in which we start cooking from the box (and garden)
on Mar 20, 2009 in Earth-friendly Food and Drink Healthy Families Nutrition Recipes - Vegetarian It's time. Today is the first day of the Portland Farmer's Market for the 2009 season, and chatting with other urbanMamas I discover that lots of you are expecting your first box of food from a CSA sometime in the...
Lowly cabbage goes glamorous: Cooking from box, garden, market
on Apr 2, 2009 in Earth-friendly Food and Drink Nutrition Recipes - Entrees Recipes - Soups Recipes - Vegetarian Spring is late this year, but everyone still has heavy, wide-eyed piles of one of the original, most thoroughly lowly, peasant foods: the cabbage. I can't believe it took me so long to discover the cabbage. I always treated the...
Darling Designer Profile: Jacob Vaughn, Project TransAction
on Apr 6, 2009 in Interviews accessories artist bracelet brooklyn Brooklyn Indie Market buy local darling designer e-bay earth-friendly economy independently-owned indie leather-working Maker Faire Mission Indie Market recycled San Francisco screen-printing Jacob Vaughn is an artist/designer living in San Francisco who runs a small, independently owned screen-printing and leather-working business. His business, Project TransAction, strives to work with the most socially responsible companies available,...
Veggie Growing 101: Starting Your Kitchen Garden in Portland
on Apr 7, 2009 in Community Earth-friendly Food and Drink Neighborhood My neighbor, Camellia Nieh, is a great gardener -- I often admire her skills from my window and have tasted many of her cherry tomatoes and other goodies. She offered to write an introduction to vegetable gardening in Portland, and...