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The Toxic Effects of Polyunsaturated Fats

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are among the most chemically unstable fats in the human diet. The reason lies in their molecular structure. Saturated fats contain no carbon-carbon double bonds, monounsaturated fats contain one, and polyunsaturated fats contain two or more. As the number of double bonds increases, a fatty acid becomes increasingly vulnerable to oxidation.…

3D Printed ‘Living Food’ Designed and Printed by The Edible Growth Project

Chloe’s 3D printed structures are made from a paste of living organisms including seeds, spores and yeast, which then grow and fully develop in about 5 days. The idea of 3D-printing food comes across at first as odd and a bit zealous to think humans can out-perform nature, but when you watch Chloé Rutzerveld 3D-Print…

Urban Farming Guys Transforming Crime-Ridden Missouri City into Sustainable Paradise

In one of the most dangerous places in the US, Lykins neighborhood, Kansas City, where people can’t sell their homes because people are too afraid to live there, the Urban Farming Guys have been hard at work building a sustainable, thriving community from the inside out. After researching and writing articles on Urban Agriculture, we…

You’ll Never Eat McDonald’s Again After Reading These 10 Horrifying Facts

Before you head off to your favorite fast food restaurant, you may want to take a look at this article. Here are some of the most disgusting additives you are eating if you “treat” yourself to McDonalds: 1.) Ammonium Sulfate – This is used to mass-produce bread, it is also used to fertilizer soil and…

Perennial Garlic – Plant It once and Harvest For 20 years

There’s a way to grow garlic without replanting each year, explains a Washington gardener. Joe Capriotti doesn’t plant garlic, but every year he harvests hundreds of pounds from his backyard in Montesano, Wash. His technique goes against the common practice of planting and harvesting garlic each year as if it were an annual plant. Most…

8 Vegetables That You Can Plant Once and Regrow Forever

Have you ever wondered which vegetables you can regrow or how to regrow them? Below are eight vegetables that you can regrow again and again. Scallions You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room. Garlic When…

Edible Bus Stop turns London Transit Routes into Community Gardens

Originating as a guerilla garden project near a bus stop in London, England, The Edible Bus Stop beautifies neglected landscapes around bus stops by converting them into community gardens. In an interview with The Guardian, the group’s founder Mark Gilchrist revealed that when a small strip of land was offered for sale, a group of…

San Francisco Mom’s Itty Bitty Farm Grows Vegetables, Chickens and Goats

Tired of the confusing and misleading labels on food in the supermarket? San Francisco mom Heidi Kooy started her own backyard farm, growing a variety of organic vegetables, and raising chickens and goats for their nourishing eggs and dairy. Learning as they went along, Heidi and her daughter began with a 350 square foot garden…

Canadian Urban Farmer Grows 50,000lbs of Food on Less than 1 Acre of Land

“What if I told you that there was a way you could live off the land, farm commercially, be a direct solution to food security, economic inequality, and environmental degradation, build community ties and social capital, and make a living out of it?” – Curtis Stone, Urban Farmer and CEO of Green City Acres. Green…

Gotham Greens: America’s First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse Farm On Whole Foods Store

A neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, is now benefiting from a revolutionary partnership in urban agriculture — a 20,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse built on a Whole Foods supermarket. The partnering farmers are from a company called Gotham Greens, and together they are growing high-quality, pesticide-free produce year-round for their customers. Gotham Greens says the new facility…