Remember all the spinach recalls a couple of decades ago, because the farms were watering with contaminated water and people were getting sick from eating the spinach? Or more recently, the “throw away your romaine” warnings, for the same reason? I’ve been fed up with commercial produce for quite a…
Our capitalist culture wants us to throw away any garment that is slightly damaged. Socks aren’t expensive – why not buy a new pair? But there are costs to that practice that have nothing to do with our bank accounts. Costs to the planet, in the form of trash in…
So I went to my filing cabinet to put away some papers, and to make room for them I pulled out an old file of records from 1993. Before disposing of it, I started to leaf through it. It turned out to be a delightful time capsule! 1993 was the…
In recent years, there have been numerous stories about lettuce being contaminated by (ahem) unhealthy watering practices. “Throw away your Romaine!” has been in the news over and over. I don’t like being frightened of produce. Before Romaine, it was spinach. Again and again, spinach contaminated. It actually gave me…
