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In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings Flourish

January 17, 2010 In neighborhoods where it has been hard to find fresh produce, a new organization, La Mesa Verde, helps put raised-bed vegetable gardens within reach – just outside their backdoor. “Nobody was going into the homes,” said Raul Lozano, 55, the son of farm workers, whose passion for gardening inspired him to form [...]

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Raised On Fresh Corn

This little story sprang almost organically from the ground. We were filming a work party at a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm where volunteers were harvesting fresh potatoes from the field. It was an autumn day, and about a dozen people were out digging, pulling up fresh potatoes, and placing them into boxes for [...]

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Making Summer Squash Stuffed with Rice

Watch the related video story: Cooking With Love: Alice’s Kitchen Fresh, home cooked meals prepared with love; a Lebanese tradition transferred from mother to daughter. Linda Sawaya shares her love of food, and the generations of culinary knowledge passed down through oral tradition. Linda Sawaya demonstrates a recipe from her cookbook, Alice’s Kitchen to make [...]

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Spanish Eggplant Salad

Check out the related video story: Food Network: Community Supported Agriculture Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offers a holistic approach to the production of sustainable food grown in urban areas. In this story, we learn of one urban farmer who successfully uses the CSA model to produce long-term sustainable crops that are fresh, cost efficient to [...]

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