Photo by Jessica Toplliver Brooklyn’s DeKalb Market’s community farm sits behind the salvaged shipping containers which now house restaurants, retail shops and a radio station. Downtown Brooklyn, N.Y’s Fulton Mall is now the home of DeKalb Market, an entrepreneurial, creative group of businesses made entirely of 160-square-foot salvaged shipping containers. Twenty-two companies, including restaurants, a […]
Ryan McVay/Photodisc/Thinkstock In.gredients will become the first zero-waste grocer in the nation when it opens in fall. When an Austin, Texas, grocer, in.gredients, opens this fall, it will cater to eco-minded shoppers hungry for package-free goods. Every single item sold on in.gredients’ shelves — including household cleaners and edibles such as beer, milk, spices and […]
Photo courtesy of Jengod/Wikipedia The June bug that went after me last weekend looks just like this one. This spring, my sister, Cyndi, came to visit me from the island where she lives in the South Pacific. While I was at work one day, she planted a garden of tomatoes. Now, four months later, I […]
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