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Our children will accuse us
An extraordinary French documentary about the dangers of chemical pesticides to the health of our children...
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Quick Pumpkin Bread
Autumn makes everything pumpkin, Hallowe'en doubly so.....
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Organic news
Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’
A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", according to a leading food expert. Professor Tim Lang, a member of the UK government's newly formed Food Council, warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing "structural failures", such as "astronomic" environmental costs...
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The rise of the green granny
Last summer, for reasons that needn’t bother us here, I had to make a shirt the old-fashioned way , with fabric and a pattern and a sewing machine. The only person I knew who could help was my wife’s 97-year-old great-aunt, Peggy Parker.
Peggy is a brilliant and witty woman, but in the past few years her clothes-making know-how has been completely neglected...
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Ban pesticides which kill bees
Eurpoean Union proposals which will potentially ban the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic, neurotoxic and reprotoxic substances will be voted on by members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee on Wednesday November 5th.
As neurotoxins, the group of substances known as neonicotinoids could be banned in the European Union...
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Recipes and books
Baking For All Occasions
A Treasury Of Recipes For Everyday Celebrations
This weighty hardback by San Francisco Chronicle baking columnist Flo Braker provides inspiration for every sweet American baking moment...
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Fresh From The Farmers’ Market
This paperback book by Janet Fletcher features an introduction from legendary Berkley chef, Alice Waters, always a good sign, and is illustrated with beautiful photographs by Victoria Pearson...
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Persimmon Salsa
Here's a super-simple recipe from Evonne Heyning...
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Your emails
Why does organic milk last so long?
Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? I notice that refrigerated organic milk will last up to two months on the expiration date. Is it true that there is a preservative used to make organic milk last much longer than regular milk?
Sharmaine
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Butternut squash soup with tomato salsa
Ysanne, hello. Love your book Grow Organic Cook Organic. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. One of our favorite recipes is the Butternut Squash Soup with Tomato Salsa...
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Brilliant!
Dear Ysanne,
It's fantastic dealing with you. You are so helpful and enthusiastic about helping people. You are also so efficient.
You have so much energy too - aside from editing for Dmoz.org , running your busy and successful website, writing your specialist books, researching the world of organic food, and, I'm sure, many other things...
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