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		<title>A Very Thoughtful Article About Agricultural Sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother Jones:  Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts
This is a great article from ths March/April 2009 that discusses the reality of what we need to consider when it comes to the idea of sustainable agriculture.
&#8220;&#8230;Fred Kirschenmann, former director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Real sustainability, he argues, is defined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=333&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food &amp; &#8220;Farm&#8221; Update &#8211; Summer 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been very interesting and busy! Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to:
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Two tomatoes plants (out of the original 4 varieties that I planted in March) have produced fruit &#8211; the Tomatoberry and the yellow Marvel Stripe heirloom &#8211; those most are still green.  I have one (color TBD) bell pepper still growing, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=327&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MindfulCast #1 &#8211; Fermentation: The Final Frontier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of thinking about it, I have finally created a podcast call &#8220;MindfulCast&#8221;. The goal of this podcast series is to discuss the rewards and challenges of living a balanced life in these modern, urban times. The first episode, Fermentation: The Final Frontier, focuses on a recent Pickling Party workshop hosted by UrbanKitchenSF and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=303&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Local Food, Locally Part II: Chipotle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chipotle is a chain of Mexican Style fast food restaurants in the United States &#8211; and they don&#8217;t buy their pork from factory farms. That is only the start! While they are not 100% organic or sustainable yet, they have a fantastic &#8220;Food With Integrity&#8221; philosophy which includes &#8220;unprocessed, seasonal, family-farmed, sustainable, nutritious, naturally raised, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=289&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight: Ferry Plaza Farmers&#8217; Market: A Photo Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 18:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though the farmers' market I usually shop at is the Heart of the City, I stop by the Ferry Plaza a few times a year. This is not so much for the produce, as I find that the fruit and vegetables at the Heart of the City are quite fabulous and much less expensive, but for the items that are harder to find, The Ferry Plaza Market is great!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=275&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notes: Food Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter&#8217;s Notes: Food Safety
&#8220;Here&#8217;s another item for President-Elect Barack Obama&#8217;s to-do list when he takes office in January: food safety. Especially imported foods. Recent scares over melamine-laced cookies from China and salmonella-tainted Mexican jalapenos have raised stark questions: Who&#8217;s monitoring the safety of imported food? And does the system work?&#8221;
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		<title>Eaten by the Chronophage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s been months since I&#8217;ve written anything of any interest, and much has happened: Slow Food Nation, an unexpected move, the presidential election and the Green Fest. All of which I will touch on at some point in this post. It&#8217;s been a tumultuous 3 months and I now feel that I am finally settling down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=202&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Farming in San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I was listening to one of the Deconstructing Dinner shows about Urban Farming and one of the guests was discussing the use of city backyards as a way to use the existing green space to grow crops. I have been fascinated with this idea ever since and have been trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=165&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Observations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is most definitely the best time of year for produce at the farmers&#8217; market. Just about everything that is available at any time of year in the Bay Area is in season. My favorite things available right now are the fresh beans (black-eyed peas, cranberry and edamame) the wonderful berries (blueberry, strawberry, blackberry and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=161&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health, Food and Human History: The All-American Banana?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my move toward eating locally produced food, I have cut out certain fruits and vegetables from my diet.  In an attempt to have some sort of balance, and in cases where they are available, I will purchase organic and fairly traded varieties of coffee, chocolate, tea and coconut products but have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&blog=1784287&post=148&subd=mindfulindividual&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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