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Martha Stewart Living:Fresh thinking: organic, local and seasonal
The January issue of MSL has a fairly in-depth article in it about the differences, pluses/minuses, and information about organics, local and seasonal foods. It brings up the basics of GMOs, Irradiation, taste, nutrition, the benefits of CSAs and more. It's a fairly "basic" article--esp for regulars on this board--but to see it in a magazine that's so widespread and mainstream--hopefully it will make at least SOME consumers (and who knows, maybe it will wake up some of the monster-mega producers) think a little bit more, and perhaps some of them will change their habits. The nice thing is that their editorial comments always goes back to support the small, local farmer, and to eat with the season.
I think it would be interesting if anyone did an "earth friendly" audit on her and her company--see how they would do compared to other large corporations....I don't even know if there is such a thing.....
Re: Martha Stewart Living:Fresh thinking: organic, local and seasonal
I saw this article and I was really impressed! I'm sure Martha isn't very green...especially given all the random paper crafts she makes.
But, I think it was a fabulous article. It was well written and accessible, not overly judgmental, and informative. It's a mainstream publication that is championing the wonders of organic, local, seasonal food, and chastizing HFCS and overprocessed food. It's going to take baby steps to change the way Americans eat, and if this article can make a few more people think a little more critically about how they eat, I don't really care if it happened to be 5 pages after doily wreaths or other random crap.
Don't know how I missed your blog before . . . I've added you to my reader :-)
ESF's blog is awesome!!
I love seeing stuff like this in mainstream mags. Yay Martha!
LOL! Just this morning, I was admiring your dilly mashed potatoes in the Dark Days update this week. I didn't realize you were a nestie!
This is awesome to see in such a mainstream publication. Although I don't hold out any hope that Martha is a shining beacon of green light, she's done pretty well IME. I've seen articles on "going green", recycling, and organic gardening in MSL before, and she just came out with an eco-friendly cleaning products line.
One of the "themes" (if there is such a thing in a reference book) in her Housekeeping Handbook is to use the gentlest cleaner possible to get the job done, which is usually the most eco-friendly as well. That book did as much for me as anything else in terms of greening my cleaning.
I don't have confidence that she lives a green lifestyle, as she has multiple homes and travels internationally. However, her influence is substantial and if she can motivate her audience to make ef choices, or bring ef living into mainstream, i am all for it.
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Not being into or even very aware of paper crafts...I assume they are recyclable!
And really, every bit counts. It may seem like I do a lot, but there are a lot more things I could change. If everyone made a greater effort to be greener, even if they did paper crafts
it would have a huge impact. Having people just aware of these issues is a big deal.
Best sound ever: baby's heartbeat! (Heard @ 10w1d)
I saw these too, I keep meaning to check them out but we're always in a hurry to buy something and get back to a project.
I saw the article too. I was really glad her focus kept coming back to eating local and in season rather than buying industrial organic foods from the grocery store. I love her tone too, the seasonal section said something like "Americans have been spoiled by out-of-season produce and that needs to stop."