Subject: Organic Foods

• Farm Fresh

  May 29, 2008

• Green Fest Brings Out Colorful Characters

  August 26, 2008

• Organically speaking

  May 25, 2000

• Breakfast Buffet: 12/30

  Wait? Is this blog post even about food? It starts off on the subject but quickly veers to Twitter. You've been warned. [Hip Suburban White Guy]New Years' Resolutions are coming quick and often now. Dan Regan from KC Irish Fest has a good list of what he hopes to accomplish including, "I will get a full 8 hours of sleep a night Irish Fest weekend and will eat three square, healthful and nutritious meals each day, while limiting myself to one small glass of light beer." I wish him the best of luc

  December 30, 2008

• Best Neighborhood Hangout

  October 18, 2001

• Who says no one is hiring

  If you or someone you know is in need of a job and has some experience in sustainable agriculture or community organizing, the best nonprofit in the city -- the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture in Kansas City, Kansas -- is filling two positions right now. It needs a farm manager and a farm business developer. If you're interested in agriculture and don't want to give up the urban life this is the job for you. The KCCUA is a non-profit devoted to trying to get people to use whatever extra

  January 19, 2009

• Best New Business

  October 7, 2004

• Best Place to Buy Little Carrots and Like It

  October 7, 2004

• Prepare to fall in love with Hammy

  If a picture is worth a thousands words, then a video of a lovable hamster choosing between organic and regular produce is worth, like, 10,000 words, several "ahhhhs" and a hug.  As the title of the pseudo-scientific experiment suggests, Hammy does indeed prefer organic food to conventional food, especially carrots, bananas and cheese. Overall, Hammy's owners ran 75 grueling tests with six different foods. The only conventional food Hammy preferred was walnuts. Despite what the video shows,

  March 6, 2009

• Got artificial-hormone milk? Kansas sure does

  Flickr: LauraEver since recombinant bovine-growth hormone was approved by the FDA, there's been so much backlash that the nation's top retail stores -- Wal-Mart, Costco, Kroger's, Safeway -- refuse to carry milk from cows on rBGH. The public has spoken -- people don't like the idea of steroid cows -- and normally the public gets its way. Just not in Kansas. Last Friday, the Kansas House approved bill 2295 (PDF) which includes the following:Each milk, milk product or dairy product label that h

  March 23, 2009

• Tune In

  November 20, 2008

• Raw Friday

  November 6, 2008

• Dinner at Local Burger

  August 28, 2008

• Urban Harvest

  May 29, 2008

• Beer, Pong

  April 10, 2008

• Local Booger

  June 21, 2007

• Farmer's Market

  June 4, 2009

• Hard Ball

  Playing tennis in the cold is no picnic.

  January 8, 2004

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  July 10, 2003

• Night & Day Events

  week of July 13, 2000

  July 13, 2000

• New organic market in Leawood

  Flickr: Kater WAn organic market is opening in Mission Farms, the new Leawood development that holds Zest and the Johnson County locations of Blue Koi, Blanc Burger & Bottles and Room 39. "It's a nice fit," Mission Farms marketing director Katie Chalfant told me. "There isn't a market in Leawood. There hasn't been since the one at Barstow, but that's been several years. And with our restaurants, a lot of which buy locally, it made sense."Chalfant says the market is going to start "smal

  April 20, 2009

• New Farmers' Markets all this weekend

  April sure did bring its showers these past couple of days but now it's May which means flowers Famers' Markets. After holding a special winter market into January, Bad Seed starts its organic farmers' market tonight from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Ten or so vendors will be on hand selling organic cheese, bread, coffee, jams and, of course, produce. The market is every Friday night throughout the summer and fall. Bad Seed is located in the Crossroads at 1909 McGee. On Saturday, another organic market op

  May 1, 2009

• How to Eat Local in KC

  June 18, 2009

• KC Organics Market

  May 7, 2009

• No soup for you recession

   The conventional wisdom is that when times are tough, people turn to canned goods and generic brands in an effort to save money. But our recession diets appear to be changing according to Time magazine's "10 Big Recession Surprises." Soup feels like an indicator of hard times -- whether that's a brain ripple from classic photographs of Depression soup lines or the fact that the offerings never seem to change. And yet Campbell's Soup isn't experiencing the normal uptick in sales in connecti

  July 24, 2009

• Giving penicillin to Bessie?

  ​The debate over whether to give livestock certain classes of antibiotics has returned to the floor of the House of Representatives. A bill proposed back in March by U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-New York) is attempting to restrict the use of antibiotics to prevent illness in farm animals. She's responding to concerns that the drugs are losing their potency because they're being used too often. Farm advocacy groups argue that the measure would lead to reduced yields, in turn resulting in highe

  August 3, 2009

• What's Puck-o-lating in the world of coffee

  ​Just as he has done with pizza and airline food, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is hoping to change the iced coffee market. Nation's Restaurant News reports that Puck will be rolling out a line of bottled iced coffee drinks along the line of Starbucks' Frapuccinos. The Wolfgang Puck Culinary Iced Coffees will come in four flavors: Vanilla Fusion, Double Blend Mocha, Creme Caramel and Cafe Au Lait. A single bottle of the packaged coffee drink will cost $2.39, a four-pack $7.99."The coffees selec

  October 15, 2009