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by Michelle Lasley | Aug 12, 2011 | Blogging Before SEO, Food, The Green Life
Nary a day goes by where we don’t hear about another food recall. These food recalls largely involve large industrial food complexes, like confined animal feed operations. I don’t buy from those operations. I buy directly from the farmer. My family eats fairly locally and seasonally. We learn how to preserve our food and make things from scratch, like bread — a lot like my grandparents learned post World War II. We develop relationships with our farmers, our distributors, our producers of the food we eat. We do this to increase our food security. We know where our food comes from. We visit the farms. We know the names of our farmers’ children. We are invested in them, and they are invested in us.
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by Michelle Lasley | Aug 6, 2011 | Blogging Before SEO, Family, Food, Parenting, The Green Life
I’m reading Omnivore’s Dilemma. Finally. In it, Pollen coins the term “Supermarket Pastoral” as a way to describe the literature we find in supermarkets, like Whole Foods. I think we can credit sustainability and this movement for great leaps and bounds when it moves into the regular aisles and ads of the grocery store.
by Michelle Lasley | Apr 24, 2011 | Blogging Before SEO, Food, Parenting, The Green Life
In response to my Cooking post, she said something like, “Wow, Michelle, I enjoy your passion about things.” I thought. I paused. I reflected. I was questioned several years ago why I won’t do art as a career. I can draw (always have been able to). I...
by Michelle Lasley | Mar 30, 2011 | Blogging Before SEO, Food, The Green Life
Previously, a frequent theme has been money and how we spend it. While I was studying at Portland State, Prof. Messer reminded me that Sustainability holds three major tenants, economy, equity, and environment. I have always had a pretty good handle on equity and...
by Michelle Lasley | Mar 28, 2011 | Blogging Before SEO, Health
I began this post on August 10, 2008, where I had recently posted a few items regarding cleaning: general house cleaning and whiter laundry. It seems that quite a few people are trying to find ways to make their whites whiter. As I look at the search terms, I noticed...
