CHEESESLAVE

Tomorrow, former Fox News reporter, Holly Hickman, will be joining us on the CHEESESLAVE Podcast Show.

Holly has written a new book called Healthy Eats Here. With over 200 entries across the nation, it’s a restaurant guidebook listing all her favorite healthy, organic, local, and sustainable-farm-fresh restaurants.

I’m so excited I can hardly stand it! In less than a week, my dear friend and fellow blogger, Kelly the Kitchen Kop is flying to Southern California and we are going to go to the beach! Newport Beach, to be exact, to attend the Newport Beach Film Festival. We are covering the screening of a new feature-length documentary about sustainable agriculture called FRESH.

A huge victory for locavores and advocates of organic food was announced yesterday, in the form of a White House victory garden. The Obamas are going to plant an organic vegetable garden on the White House Lawn.

California voters go to the polls tomorrow to vote on a slew of propositions, including Proposition 2.
It is cruel and inhumane to confine animals in cages so small they can’t turn around or stretch their limbs. All animals deserve humane treatment, including those raised for food. Vote YES on Prop #2 to protect animals [...]

I happened upon this trailer this morning and was so inspired and excited, I had to post it. It’s a trailer for a documentary about young farmers and the agricultural revival movement taking place in our country.

From The Greenhorns website:

The Greenhorns is a documentary film that explores the lives of America’s young farming community—its spirit, [...]

We’re going home to California tomorrow. Before we go, I wanted to share a few photographs I took today of my family’s hometown, Oregon, Ohio.
Oregon is just outside of Toledo, just south of Lake Erie. Our family has lived here for generations. My great grandfather and my grandfather were farmers until they got driven [...]

Click on the photo above to go to Flickr and read what everything is. (I added notes on Flickr. You can just roll over the photo and read the notes.)
I missed my usual Saturday morning trip to the farmer’s market since I was out of town, so I made up for it today and yesterday [...]

Jessica Prentice, author of the cookbook, “Full Moon Feast”, is kind of a rock star in the local food arena. She is the person who coined the word, “locavore”, which is now an actual word in the dictionary.
She’s also co-owner of Three Stone Hearth, a community supported kitchen in Berkeley, California.
What’s a community supported kitchen [...]

A recent study in England reveals that organic food is a lot healthier than conventional food:
The Quality Low Input Food project, the biggest of its kind, took a 725-acre farm in north-east England, grew conventional produce (like cabbage, lettuce, potatoes and what) next to organic produce, and compared the results.
The biggest contrast was found for [...]

This is a great post about egg packaging:
Open Letter to Trader Joe’s
I agree! That is very fraudulent packaging. I used to feel so good buying my “free range” eggs at TJ's. Felt like I was doing something good. Little did I know I was being had.
I think it would be cool to make a t-shirt [...]