Toxic Free NC Tip of the Week: Farm Workers Talk about Pesticides

September, 11, 2009
Toxic Free NC Tip of the Week: Farm Workers Talk about Pesticides

Beautiful new video from Toxic Free NC. Features photos and interviews with tobacco workers, all from within an hour’s drive of Raleigh. (photo by A. Duncan Pardo)

Toxic Free NC Tip of the Week: Organic on a Budget

July, 02, 2009
Toxic Free NC Tip of the Week: Organic on a Budget

Eating organic is not just for hippies, or yuppies for that matter, and it isn’t just “fancy” food, either. It’s for YOU. It’s french fries, hamburgers and apple juice just as much as it’s arugula and tofu, and it’s really important for your health, for your babies - be they actual or potential - for our environment, and for our economy. I’m serious! In this week’s Toxic Free NC Tip, I bring you some of the whys and hows of eating organic on the cheap.

Local Produce Coming To Seaboard Station

May, 08, 2009
Local Produce Coming To Seaboard Station

If you grow it, they will come.

Toxic Free NC Tip of the Week: Join a CSA Farm

January, 28, 2009

Raleigh is so lucky to have CSA farms, where you can get your weekly veggies while helping to keep a local sustainable farmer in business. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it means that you can buy a share in a farm’s output for the year directly from the farmer. They all work a little differently, but the basic idea is that you pay a lump sum early in the year, then you get food every week through the growing season. It’s about time to sign up for 2009. For more about CSAs, and how and why to join one, below the fold.