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Americans throw away about 10% of the food they buy at the supermarket. This results is dumping the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year. (EarthWorks Group. 1990. The Recycler’s Handbook. Berkeley, CA: The EarthWorks Press.)
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Some Favorite Green Living and Gardening Sites

There are so many great resources on the Internet these days that one might get overwhelmed with all of the choices.

Here are a few of my Green Living and Gardening favorites as well as some new and interesting sites I’ve come across that are worth a peek.

TreeHugger.com
From the website: “TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.”

OrganicGardening.com
A website and a magazine on all things related to organic gardening. One of my favorite gardening magazines.

LocalHarvest.org
Looking for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in your area? Stop by Local Harvest and enter your zip code to find a farm near you.

PickYourOwn.org
Lists plenty of farms where you can pick your own fruit from apples to blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Also lists which farms use IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and organic practices.

NAMANET.org
NAMANET stands for Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. The above link will take you to a page where you can search for a CSF (Community Supported Fishery).

FedcoSeeds.com
One of my favorite no nonsense places to buy seeds and gardening supplies.

Nofa.org
Nofa stands for The Northeast Organic Farming Association. The website lists chapters by location and upcoming conferences and classes.

Russ Cohen
Russ Cohen is a professional environmentalist and wild foods enthusiast. He has written the book “Wild Plants I have Known and Eaten” and gives foraging walks throughout New England in the spring. Each year I plan to join one and always miss out. Hopefully this will be the year!

North American Mycological Society
I LOVE mushrooms! (No, not those kind of mushrooms.) In addition to one of Cohen’s foraging walks, I would love to go mushroom foraging. However, mushroom hunting can be extremely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. This site lists the amateur mushroom clubs in North America.

BestGreenBlogs.com
A huge  Internet directory of green blogs and websites.

The Organic Home
The Organic Home is a site I’ve recently come across that also has an interesting directory that goes beyond green blogs. Look under Organic Directory to find a listing of all categories.

There are so many other great sites out there. These are just a few of them. What are yours?

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