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“Sweet Spinach Salad” – Local Spinach is in Season NOW!
Hold the bacon & eggs! A traditional Spinach Salad includes hard cooked eggs, bacon bits, and cheddar or blue cheese. This heart-healthy raw, vegan salad is garnished with an ample amount of walnuts for protein and your omega-3 fats, and is a perfectly satisfying and energizing lunch. Fresh arugula is added for a nice peppery […]
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Discovery High School; Growing Vegetables and Character
In a community struggling with endemic poverty, unequal access to healthy food and environmental blight, Discovery High School’s Living Environment class has become the unlikely vanguard of an urban gardening movement. Started by Steve Ritz, the program’s teacher and enthusiastic Bronx activist, Discovery is creating positive change, one pound of vegetables at a time. Discovery’s […]
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About Bottled Water
Tap water is so yesterday. Today’s consumer has so many better options for their busy, active lifestyle that tap water has been all but forgotten. You can choose from distilled, filtered, purified, reverse osmosis, spring water, and mineral water. You can even buy bottled tap water! You can buy water from France, Denmark, Switzerland, South […]
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Why Eat Organic? The Dirty Dozen List
The simple fact is that eating organic is not only healthier for you; it’s healthier for the planet. Aside from contributing to a number of childhood diseases and ADD, artificial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides seep into ground water. These chemicals eventually pollute and destroy wetlands and rivers. Even our off shore coral reefs are dying […]
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Field Trip to Queens Botanical Garden
Does Spring Fever have you ready to get outside and enjoy the sunshine, smell the flowers and feel the grass between your city toes? Are you itching to get away from the honking taxis, screeching subways and blaring sirens? Some of us here at GCC decided we couldn’t resist the itch any longer, and took […]
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