Heidi is a country girl at heart with a self-professed obsession to feed her daughter, Ute, the best food possible. She believes her urban farm is her biggest contribution to her family, providing food, lessons and time together with Ute in the garden and the kitchen.
Chickens, miniature goats and a vegetable patch share Heidi and Ute’s home in the midst of the Excelsior district in San Francisco. They find much more than basic sustenance in this mini urban farm of theirs and get creative with ways to exercise the goats. Watch their story on this episode of Grow.
Did you know that one in three children worldwide do not get the nutrients they need to survive and thrive in their environments? Vitamin Angels helps reduce child mortality worldwide by connecting essential nutrients, especially vitamin A, with infants and children under five. Today, Vitamin Angels is reaching over 20 million children in more than 40 countries with the nutrition they need to live healthy, productive lives. Vitamin Angels created this video to show the impact of their work.
In this episode of Grow, Tom and Rachel dream of eating only food grown in their own backyard, and in Vallejo, California their dream just might come true. They chose a home with an extra-large lot and dug right in, facing the challenges and flourishing from the successes within their newfound community.
With full-time day jobs in construction and landscape architecture, Tom and Rachel are well suited to the planning and execution required for managing their backyard farm. Time is another question, but somehow Rachel also fits in a writing gig for Homegrown.org.
What would a feast of locally-grown foods include in your hometown? Share with us in the comments below.
This September, we’re celebrating National Organic Harvest Month in our stores across the US and that means we’re celebrating the organic farmers we partner with. Organic farmers not only encourage biodiversity, they depend on it — both above and below the ground. Experienced organic farmers have learned over many decades that combining multiple crops with livestock and other animals is the best way to promote soil health and fully utilize the rainfall and sunlight that falls on an acre in any given year.
Any organic farmer worth their salt will tell you that healthy soil is the bedrock of all successful organic farms. Hundreds of studies conducted on multiple continents over the last 50 years have compared soil quality on organic farms to soil quality on nearby conventional farms. Virtually every one has concluded that organic management substantially enhances soil quality. So join us in supporting organic farmers across the US this September – and buy organic!
Do you have a favorite organic farm in your neck of the woods? Give them a shout-out in the comments section below! We’d love to hear about them.
Watch to learn another one of Healthy Eating Chef Chad’s kitchen tricks: how to make a blended balsamic dressing with pears for natural sweetness, then use it to coat portobello mushrooms before roasting. The combination of roasted mushrooms, quinoa, almonds and greens makes a hearty, flavorful dish. Make it yourself with this recipe for Quinoa with Balsamic Roasted Mushrooms.
Washington, DC has the largest number of Ethiopians outside Ethiopia and is the site for a lively festival where music and food mingle with historians and dance. Get a taste of this culture in this episode of Fest-A-Nation as host Emma Green makes friends over food at the Ethiopian Heritage Festival.
The self-described “Martha Stewart meets MacGyver of all things food, wine and travel,” Emma Green asks the questions you would ask if you were there and gets the answers with her ever-present smile as she eats, drinks and dances her way through festivals that celebrate and preserve international cultures far from home.
Don’t let gluten worries get in the way of a cake craving! Here’s a tasty, moist cake made with cornmeal, ground almonds and a touch of orange. It’s elegant, yet simple to make.
When gluten is not an option, how can you possibly indulge your desire for baking? Karen Morgan, the author of the acclaimed cookbook, Blackbird Bakery Gluten Free, and founder of Blackbird Bakery, takes you step-by-step through simple gluten-free recipes for popular baked goods. Join Karen in the kitchen and let her ease your fears and inspire your sweet fantasies.
Got a question for Karen? Want to share your favorite gluten-free recipe and hear from others? Then join us tonight from 6 pm to 7 pm (CST) on Twitter as we discuss all things gluten-free with Karen Morgan. It’s super easy to participate. Log on to Twitter and follow the hash tag #GlutenMorgan. You can ask her questions, share recipes, post food photos or just follow along as an observer.
The combination of apples, walnuts, celery and grapes in Waldorf salad is a classic. Here Healthy Eating Chef Chad shows us how to keep that traditional creamy dressing without using any mayonnaise (watch to find out the secret!) and adds kale instead of lettuce to give it a punch of nutrients. Then try it at home with this Kale Waldorf Salad recipe.
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Once you have spent the time, energy and love creating a healthy, nutritious and delicious lunch for your kids, it makes sense that you would want the perfect container to pack it in. Whole Foods Market and The Container Store have teamed up to create this video that gives you great healthy lunch ideas and tips for choosing the perfect containers to pack them in. Lunch is no longer just a sandwich and chips, kids love a variety of different finger foods and finding the perfect containers for these items can make a difference in the lunch getting eaten or not. We hope you enjoy this video as much as we enjoyed making it with The Container Store. For more information about the products featured in this video or to see their full selection, please go to containerstore.com.
Leave a comment with your ideas for fun and nutritious lunches by August 24th for a chance to win a $100 gift card from The Container Store.
Tuscarora Organic Growers is a democratically-operated cooperative of more than 40 farms that was founded in 1988 in Hustontown, Pennsylvania. Growers are held to strict standards, spelled out in an 18-page set of guidelines covering harvest, grading, packing, storage and food safety. All of the partner farms are certified organic.
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This September, we’re celebrating National Organic Harvest Month in our stores across the US and that means we’re celebrating the organic farmers we partner with. Organic farmers not only encourage biodiversity, they depend on it — both above and below the ground. Experienced organic farmers have learned over many decades that combining multiple crops with livestock and other animals is the best way to promote soil health and fully utilize the rainfall and sunlight that falls on an acre in any given year.
