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Have you found that grocery shopping is trickier than it used to be? Sure is for me.
I say that as someone who does not mind grocery shopping, at least as long as I can avoid it with the throngs on Saturdays and the geriatric set on Thursdays. (That’s the day after the grocery ads come [...]

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I splurged on the Kaw Valley Farm Tour recently and bought three whole, pasture-raised chickens. (Various studies report pastured chickens are better for the environment and better for people eating them (go to page 13 of the report on that link to find the health benefit information).

Although these chickens costs less than others I’ve seen, [...]

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We’re on fall activity overload this month in Lawrence, Kansas, and a few events this weekend and next have to do with food and the environment. Besides the usual Saturday morning Lawrence Farmers Market, check out these events :

The 2007 Kaw Valley Farm Tour on Saturday and Sunday, offering visitors (for $10 a carload) view [...]

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Oceans Alive website helps identify best fish to eat and redeems my Salade Nicoise by pointing me to healthier and sustainably caught yellowfin tuna.

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The most interesting thing at the “Go Organic!” movie night last week was in the hall, not on the screen.
Some 200-300 people (by my estimate) paid $5 to see movies about organic food production and sample the goods supplied by Local Burger last Thursday, August 23, 2007, at Liberty Hall, the old opera house now [...]

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It’s going to be easy to feed your interest in food and family farms this week if you’re in the Lawrence area.
Two very different activities are occurring on Thursday—a farm tour and a organic tasting and film series.
The farm tour
In the morning, the Kansas Rural Center is sponsoring a tour of five area farms that [...]

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