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Cooking at home can prevent a mountain of garbage.

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What does Wall Street have to do with the environment?

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The house can be clean and kid-friendly all at once.

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Green gifts take planning.

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From che berries to venison, right now the bounty is, well, bountiful.

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October 1 and 8, go inside a Passive House under construction in Fifeville.

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Discovering the secrets of a strange-looking veggie.

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Kathy Kildea of Market Central blogs about the canning memories that inspire this year’s swap.

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Emily Manley at the Local Food Hub guest blogs about the group’s recent award ceremony.

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From beaver pelts to donuts, highlights of this year’s fest.

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One reader’s strategy to drastically limit car usage. Plus, today’s feature on the totally car-free!

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Kristin Kimball’s memoir exposes the brutal work of farming.

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At Random Row Wednesday night, learn about a Louisa farm that will run oil-free.

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Next year, it will be time to step up the gardening.

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Six types of peppers. Can we ever have too many?

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The schedule is packed, the setting’s unequaled…must we go on?

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A compost pile volunteer that cannot be identified.

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Growing black beans raises some interesting questions.

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The Hippie Sippy falls down on the job.

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Sometimes it’s a good thing, and sometimes it’s not.

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How to use up all those veggies in your fridge before the next CSA pickup.

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Local plants, exotic bugs, and several ways of being human.

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Calculating the cost of owning a car is eye-opening.

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An adventure with what should have been low impact travel.

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An experiment yields fantastic results.

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They are a living, flying, stinking reminder of the house’s inefficiency.

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As cuke season rages on, we look ahead to sweaty nights of canning ‘maters.