Weekend Reading

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La Vida Locavore has a photo tour of a school garden and it's great composting program.


I recently passed a Wendy's with a big sign out for their new natural cut french fries with sea salt - clearly a claim that they had a healthy(ER?) french fry. HHmm...I thought. Well, Fooducate has the real story. (Think anti-foaming chemicals?)

 Nutrition for the Future is running lots of gardening tips - particularly on gardening with kids and starting out small.


Pesticide exposure in the womb can lower a child's IQ. Read more.


Watch - Tonight!

Film- Co-presented by Slow Food Huntington and Whole Foods Market 
Urban Roots  
Thursday, April 28, 7:30pm at the Cinema Arts Centre 
A small group of dedicated citizens, allied with environmental and academic groups, have started an urban environmental movement with the potential to transform not just a city after its collapse, but also a country after the end of its industrial age. Urban Roots is the story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city where people -- as in much of the county -- have found themselves cut off from real food and limited to the lifeless offerings of fast food chains, mini-marts, and grocery stores stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. The people of Detroit have taken on the enormous task of changing this for themselves, and to under-stand their story is to understand how we can change it for us all.

Donate 



Make a donation to the Environmental Working Group and get a free wallet guide to shopping for skin care products -- and avoid hormone-disrupting chemicals and other nasty ingredients.


Local Fun


It's a big weekend!


The Planting Fields has a terrific Arbor Day Celebration Sat. and Sun.


The Huntington Historical Society has a Sheep-to-Shawl festival this weekend. And while you're in Huntington, you can also see the tulip festival.


Sea Cliff's own Arbor celebration is on Friday in Central Park at 2pm with thanks to SC's Beautification Committee.

It's CSA Season!

Community Supported Agriculture
Find your local CSA or farmers' market at Local Harvest:
www.localharvest.orgwww.localharvest.org