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US | July 10, 2008 Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms By SUSAN SAULNY A growing number of people are skipping out on grocery stores and instead going right to the source by buying shares of farms — in essence hiring personal farmers. This article is worth reading if you care about sustainable agriculture. Owning a piece of the land that your food grows on is an amazing concept and it works. Hopefully this moves you to search out a C.S.A in your area. They are a s… Continue

July 01, 2008 The Pig Roast Mateo Granados Catering If this Fourth of July is like last year, and the year before that…and the year before that, then we're guessing you've got some cookouts lined up. And while grilling is great, we think that after this weekend your revived sense of independence might lead you to something less conventional—like pig roasts. That's where Mateo Granados Catering comes in. Chef Granados and his team will roast you a whole pig, usually a 50-pounder,… Continue