How to Eat Sustainably

How to Eat Sustainably

Tips for making wise food choices, for your health and for the environment.

• Simple Steps to Eating Sustainably
• Why Buy Organic?
• Organic foods from A-Z  (Short video clips)
• Why Buy Local?
• Directory of local farmer's markets, restaurants with local food, farms, and co-ops
• Triad Buying Co-op
• Join or start a community garden in your area

Make sustainable seafood and coffee choices too.

• Overfishing information
• Sustainable seafood recommendations from Seafood Watch
• Overfishing: Video

• Top 5 Indicators of Sustainable Coffee.  Courtesy of Julie Craves, Coffee & Conservation.
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's "Bird Friendly" coffee seal

Don't stop there!  More lifestyle choices dedicated to eating sustainably.

• Can and preserve your fruits and vegetables
• Consider caring for a flock of backyard chickens
• Home composting how-to
• Everything you need to know about composting

Additional Reading:

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.  By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven Hopp & Camille Kingsolver
• In Defense of Food.  By Michael Pollan
• Cook Food:  A Manualfesto for Easy Healthy Local Eating.  By Lisa Jervis
• The Backyard Homestead.  Carleen Madigan (ed.)
• The Organic Food Shopper's Guide.  By Jeff Cox
• Organic, Inc. By Samuel Fromartz
• Keeping Chickens. By Ashley English
• Ball Blue Book of Preserving