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Parenting Green: Learning & Connecting Through Locally Grown Food

Local Food! Growing it, harvesting it, cooking it, eating it, making sure others have access to it too… these are ways Hilltown Families Contributing Writer, Angie Gregory, helps her family learn and connect with a vibrant and healthy way of life! This month in “Parenting Green: Earth Friendly Ideas for Raising a Family,” Angie talks about the idea of integrating local food into raising her family…

Category: Angie Gregory, Contributing Writer Tags: Food, Locally Grown Food, Organic Food

Dirty Dozen & Clean 15: A Family Guide to Reducing Exposure to Pesticides in Your Produce

Environmental Working Group 2011 Shopper’s Guide Helps Cut Consumer Pesticide Exposure Environmental Working Group has released the seventh edition of its Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce with updated information on 53 fruits and vegetables and their total pesticide loads. EWG highlights the worst offenders with its “Dirty Dozen” list and the cleanest conventional produce with its “Clean 15” list. Analysts at EWG synthesized data collected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture… Read More

Category: Food, Health, Health & Wellness Tags: Conventional Food, Environmental Working Group, Fruits and Vegetables, Organic Food, Pesticides, Produce, Shopping

Green Mama: Healthy School Lunches Begin at Home

Back-to-School Means Back to Healthy Eating for this Family It’s just about that time again. Time for alarm clocks and protests to sleep “just one more minute.” Time for grumbles over homework and carpools to sport’s practices. Time for frazzled parents and days where the schedule dictates your life. (Cue scream.) Yes folks, the vacation’s over. It’s back-to-school time! Take a deep breathe and you can almost smell the nervousness, anticipation and… Read More

Category: Food, Kelly Bevan McIlquham, Schools Tags: Back-to-School, Child Nutrition Act, Food Advocacy, Healthy Food, Josh Viertel, Let's Move Campaign, Lunch, National School Lunch Program, Organic Food, Rachael Ray, School Food, School Lunches, School Nutrition, Slow Food USA

Food, Inc.: Special Benefit Screening in Amherst for CISA

Food, Inc.: Discover What “Big Agriculture” Doesn’t Want Farmers to Tell You Tomorrow, Monday June 29, at 7:00pm at the Amherst Cinema there will be a special screening of Food, Inc. to benefit Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA), followed by a discussion panel. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with… Read More

Category: Amherst, Movies, Suggested Activity Tags: Animal Husbandry, Corn, Farming, Fast Food, FDA, Film, Food Industry, Food Regulations, Food Security, Food Supply, Meat, Movie, Omnivore's Dilemma, Organic, Organic Food, Robert Kenner, USDA, Vegan, Vegetarianism

TAKE ACTION: Healthy, Local & Organic School Food

Healthy, Local & Organic School Food Now School food: It’s never had a reputation for being good, but these days, it’s downright unhealthy. Obesity and a host of diet-related diseases are linked to the school lunch menu, which is loaded with over-processed starches, fats, genetically modified ingredients, and meats laced with hormones, antibiotics and pesticides. Squeezed into buying on the cheap, school districts buy milk that has been produced with the use… Read More