Guest Blogger
Jeff Cox
Jeff Cox is the author of 19 books on food, wine, and gardening from the organic perspective, including the James Beard Foundation-nominated "The Organic Cook's Bible.".
He's the former managing editor of Organic Gardening magazine and has hosted two TV series on gardening, Your Organic Garden on PBS and Grow It! on HGTV.
He's a contributing editor of Horticulture magazine and The Wine News, and writes frequently for Decanter, a London-based wine magazine.
Jeff's books are available at www.jeffcox.net and you can visit Jeff's blog at www.organicfoodguy.com.
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What Is Biodynamic Gardening and Farming?
Philosopher, metaphysician, mystic, and scientist Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian, developed the biodynamic method of gardening and farming in the early 20th Century. It is fundamentally and practically organic gardening and farming, with its tenets put down by Steiner before what we think of today as organic gardening and farming was even developed.
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The Food Price Scam
Those who disparage organic food often claim it’s too expensive and imply that consumers are being scammed.
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We Are Sinking in a Chemical Swamp
The news was astounding. When researchers tested the blood in the umbilical cords of newborn babies, they found 273 different commercial chemicals. That means that all those chemicals passed the placental barrier and reached the developing fetus’s body. Babies today are swimming in a contaminated sea of chemicals called the amniotic fluid.
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Why Wines Made from Organically-Grown Grapes Taste So Pure
I recently tasted a group of wines made by Paul Dolan and grown near Hopland in Mendocino County, California. Dolan was for many years at the helm of Fetzer winery in Hopland, a pioneering winery using organically-grown grapes. His tenure at Fetzer was marked by many green innovations, including the planting of clover, vetch, and [...]
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Are You Eating Fake Foods Without Knowing It?
What do I mean by “fake food?” Perhaps fake food is best described by first defining what I mean by real food.
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