For me personally, the most illuminating section of Michael Pollan’s game-changing book The Omnivore’s Dilemma addressed industrial organics. He was able to show the ways in which large-scale organic agriculture—though less harmful than conventional ag due to the dearth of chemicals and pesticides—can be just as unsustainable. And that’s if what they’re doing is “organic”

We're still giving you the who's who of the top CSAs in the Philadelphia area, but act fast because 2010 shares are getting gobbled up faster than a boxful of local chocolates—John & Kira's chocolate bees to be exact!)

The owner and CSA manager of Wimer’s Organics, Bud Wimer, knows a thing or two about quality

As a vegetarian, I've always had two main passions: seasonal produce and veggie burgers. As for the latter, I'm on a constant quest to find the perfect version (mind you, the word “perfect” is pretty much interchangeable with words like “craziest” or “most unpredictable”), and the BBC just might be onto something. (Onto me, perhaps?

Mrs. Q, as she’s called on her blog Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project, is a middle school teacher who’s spending 2010 eating lunch from her school’s cafeteria every day. Whatever the kids are served, she will eat—and take pictures of. Even a quick scroll through is pretty disturbing: nothing is fresh and

Blerg. At least we were on the right side on this one. For yet another take on the world’s ongoing over-fishing catastrophe, check out this article in The New Republic entitled…wait for it…”Aquacalypse Now.” Via Grist. 

The title above is mildly misleading—I am actually obsessed with this yogurt. It’s made in Ronks, a small town in Lancaster County, using milk from grass fed jersey cows, plus rainbows. It’s thick and tangy and ludicrously creamy. The vanilla is a touch sweet for me, and the plain (which will be lovely once that

Last Monday, the Grid team had the extreme pleasure of attending Fair Food‘s Local Buyer Local Seller event at the Reading Terminal Market. LBLS offers local producers (farmers, cheese makers, bakers, ect.) the chance to interact with restaurateurs, market owners and other wholesalers. Albert Yee, who does some great work for Grid, took some beautiful pictures at

Gerry Mak, one of the folks profiled in the recent Salon piece, "Hipsters on Foodstamps" (an article I discussed yesterday), has written a short response on the site. He makes some good points:

While organic and local foods seem like luxury items to many, it's important to understand that cheap food is the result of government

Moore College of Art and Design has been quite the green goddess of enviro-consciousness lately! This year, Moore is hosting the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Invitational “Earth Matters.”
The NCECA Invitational is a themed, curated exhibition that brings together both reputable artists (via invitation) and young, emerging artists (via submission) for

Grid‘s upcoming May cover story focuses on green building and design, so I’ve got it on the brain. Grist has a post up today that features a conversation with Pam Worner, a woman who runs a business near Seattle that helps home builders adopt “green” building practices. She argues that for all the talk of high-tech