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** Upcycled Foods to Add to Your Shopping Cart
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** March 10, 2022
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It’s easy to question the efficiency of our food system when you hear that 40 percent of our food goes to waste. According to the national nonprofit, ReFED, more than 50 percent of surplus food generated at farms is edible, yet remains unharvested. During processing and manufacturing even more food can be wasted as parts of seeds, grains, fruits, and vegetables are extracted and sent away as waste streams. What if that un-harvested produce and those perfectly good byproducts were used to create healthy, sustainable products?

Upcycled foods take advantage of those waste streams. The sector is growing quickly and seeking to make a difference in the state of the food system. According to Project Drawdown, preventing food waste is the number one solution to slowing the impacts of climate change.
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** How Native Plants Can Benefit Your Garden
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** March 3, 2022
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Take a walk through your local woods, field, or swamp at different times of the year and you’ll find a host of gorgeous plants. Spring ephemerals pop their heads out from under the woody loam for a limited time only. Prairie wildflowers explode with color on the hottest days of the summer. Ferns unfurl in rich, damp soil. Above and below them, creatures fly, flutter, and scurry, taking shelter and finding food.

Native plants grow naturally within a given range without human introduction. These plants have co-evolved together with native animal species, providing them with the best sources of food and shelter possible. But in many places, construction and invasive plants remove or choke out native species, with ripple effects for entire ecosystems. Planting native can help biodiversity thrive with a wide range of benefits for your garden..
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