All those root vegetables got you down? Looking forward to warmer months with freshly picked fruit? Feeling like your succumbing to the wonders of processed food since everything you want to eat is out of season? Here are some good pick up lines so you can find a fellow food lover to commiserate with. 1. […]

Written by Amy DuFault and Anna Brones to help you harvest all of fall’s bounty. 1. Will you hand press my cider? 2. In a perfect world we’d be pulling tubers together everyday. 3. I’d love to frolic in a pumpkin patch with you. 4. Mmmmm… you smell like a cinnamon stick. 5. Is it […]

Are you as pure as your kale? You’re so tasty, I bet you don’t need a certification. I would love to see the way you farm. Do you find organic fruit to be juicier? I like a man with no additives. Did you know that “organic” in French is “biologique”? You’re so dirty…. Read the full article […]

I can’t help it. All it takes is one cheesy Christina Aguilera song at the Stop & Shop and I’m done for. Convinced. I AM beautiful no matter what they say. No matter if I arrived there in a mini van with my daughter’s 5 year-old Sponge Bob sticker lodged onto the back door. No […]

Join Teens Turning Green and the Eileen Fisher sustainability team on Twitter today at 12:30 eastern to talk lunch, school lunch that is. Eileen Fisher loves supporting women and girls and is hosting a Twitter Chat today (#EFCSRChat) on sustainable school lunches. The company has been hosting these Twitter chats as a vehicle for their […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. Before there were foodies, there were hunter-gatherers. If you were hungry around 10,000 years ago, you likely had a good sharp spear, a stone implement, or a bow and arrow to help. You moved stealthily through grassy inlets, dark forests, and rough waves, or the tall grasses of a savannah, […]

Conscious life, hear me roar. When I was around 12 I helped my father gut a deer. That night, before anything happened, my mother and I were talking softly by a crackling fire. It was November, with darkness falling early and the wood’s silence deafening, even perched on a cliff overlooking the choppy waves of […]

Editor’s note: Laura Hooper Beck is a vegan writer, the founding editor of Vegansaurus, Editor-at-Large for VegNews Magazine, and the community manager of VegWeb. Laura tweets @mrpenguino. We appreciate her constructive contribution to this important conscious lifestyle issue. The Conscious Case Against Veganism is missing a critical element: the author’s understanding of “veganism.” The “fundamentalist” […]

Just when you thought a website like Etsy was fulfilling in satisfying your every desire to buy unique and handmade, Foodzie, a food marketplace shows up and tantalizes us with their “artisan producers and growers.” Foodzie co-founders Rob LaFave, Nik Bauman and Emily Olson (twentysomethings all) started the online farmers market to connect farmers and […]