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Water woes

Can we buy less bottled water?

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You might as well be drinking oil.

Population crash

Can honey bees recover?

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Buzz kill.

Energy is constant

The complicated notion of food miles

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Doing the carbon math.

Land and money grab

Biofuel demand impacts the Midwest and beyond

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What effects do growing crops for fuel have on our agricultural economy?

Big by association

Can friendship make you fat?

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Obesity, the new social disease.

Made in China

How organic are organics from overseas?

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Certification confusion.

Factory farming, online

How does your county stack up?

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A map of the factory-farm system.

Cool or not?

Country-of-origin labeling may soon be federally mandated

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Meat from all over — and the label tells you where.

Wine, wine, everywhere

What defines a wine region, anyway?

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Grapes go tropical.

Restless natives

Rediscovering American grapes

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Can decent wine be made from New World vines?

The modern harvest

Urban foragers share the wealth

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Free for all.

Don’t bank on it

Food banks in Oregon have less grub to go around

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Fewer donations from the feds and farmers means hungrier folks.

No free lunch

Schools turn to shame as a payment tool

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Cheese sandwiches for some.

Food gone global

Sara Lee’s complicated food

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Ingredients from afar make up the classic American “treats” by Sara Lee.

The perfect farm bill?

Anna Lappé suggests a best-of version of the Farm Bill

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Writing on The Huffington Post, the author of Grub sums up ways Congress can fix the 2007 Farm Bill.

The desalination debate

Clean water at what cost?

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Taking the salt from the saltwater isn’t as simple as it sounds.

The $64 Tomato

How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden

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Man vs. groundhog.

Supply and demand

The expensive hidden cost of cheap food imports

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Too many imports, too few inspectors.

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A beef expert offers eight tips for cooking the perfect steak on Memorial Day — or any day.

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Morels

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A quiche lesson

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Fabulous favas

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