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Tortuga Music Festival and Marine Conservation: Where to Find Sustainable Seafood in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

By Sara Ventiera Fri., Apr. 12 2013 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Eco-Friendly , Ethical Eating

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Tortuga Music Festival facebook page
Starting tomorrow Tortuga Music Festival  will be taking over Fort Lauderdale. Artists ranging from Grace Potter, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, and G. Love and Special Sauce to Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Avett Brothers, and Kenny Chesney will be playing right smack dab on the beach.

Aside from the obvious music aspect, the festival, hosted by Rock the Oceans, an oceanic conservation organization, is intended to raise awareness about issues affecting, you got it, the oceans.

Undoubtedly, overfishing would fall into that category.

With that, we decided to put together a list of place to find sustainable seafood in South Florida.

See Also:
- Target, Walmart Offer Sustainable Seafood
- Tortuga Music Festival This Weekend: Best Places to Hang Out in Fort Lauderdale
- Frankenfish Rejected From National Retailers: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and More


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Learn to Grow With Farmer Jay at Whole Foods Plantation

By Laine Doss Wed., Apr. 10 2013 at 10:33 AM
Categories: Eco-Friendly , Ethical Eating, Foodie Fun, For Vegetarians, Gastronomic Gatherings
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Courtesy of Farmer Jay
Farmer Jay wants to help you grow your garden.
Farmer Jay is a public relations dream for the local locavore movement -- a smart, personable farmer who's passionate about sharing tips on healthy eating.

You would think that between running Farmer Jay Organics and writing for New Times, the man would just want to curl up with a good book or a beer and relax.

But in his spare time, Jason "Farmer Jay" McCobb is teaching a series of growing classes at Whole Foods in Plantation.

The three classes, in honor of Earth Month, all concentrate on different aspects of growing a home garden.

Take all three and you'll have the best-tasting garden in your neighborhood.

Read Also: Hot Farmer Alert: Meet Farmer Jay



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Catch a Lionfish, Get a Shirt in New Contest

By Laine Doss Tue., Apr. 2 2013 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Eco-Friendly
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Lionfish -- beautiful but invasive.
Lionfish are beautiful. They're also taking over Florida waters. These nonnative, invasive fish are aggressive and prey on native saltwater species. They also compete for food with some of our local food species, like grouper and snapper.

Luckily, lionfish are also very tasty, though parts of the fish contain toxins.

Clean Plate Charlie recommends taking your catch to a restaurant or fish monger who will clean and prepare your lionfish properly.

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Join the Palm Beach Rare Fruit Council and Learn How to Grow Rambutan, Grumichama and Mangosteen

By Nicole Danna Thu., Mar. 21 2013 at 8:45 AM
Categories: Eco-Friendly , Florida Food

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Would you like to learn how to grow rare fruit like this African cucumber?
Oh, South Florida, how do we love you? Let us count the ways: Tons of sun. Pleasant, year-round temperatures. Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Yes, living in paradise certainly has its benefits -- especially when it comes to eating exotic foods -- and we at Clean Plate Charlie aren't just fanatical about the wide variety of restaurants and cuisine available to us. We also love all of the local fresh produce at our disposal. Thanks to sub-tropical climes we have the ability to grow more rare and exotic fruits and vegetables year-round over any other place in the country. Take that California!

Whether we're mulling over ways to use up all those ripe mangos falling from trees left and right, or sipping a lychee martini made with the local-grown fruit, it seems like there's so much more we're missing. And there is.

What about all those other rare fruits and trees like sapote, sapodilla, jackfruit and custard apples? How do you grow them? Where can you buy them? And what does their fruit taste like? If you've ever asked any of these questions, you may want to consider becoming a member of the Palm Beach chapter of the Rare Fruit Council, a local non-profit organization with one mission: to foster and the growth of rare fruit in South Florida.

See Also:
-- Yagnapurus Farms: Fresh Lychee and Thai Bananas
-- Too Many Damn Mangos? Make Strawberry Mango Muffins

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First Look: Green Bar & Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale

By Falyn Freyman Tue., Feb. 26 2013 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Eco-Friendly , First Bites, For Vegetarians, Gluten-Free Goodies, Green Eating, Lean Lunch, Raw Food

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All photos by Falyn Freyman
Avocado Toast
In 2011, when nutritionist and holistic health coach Elena Pezzo, owner of Green Bar & Kitchen, learned of her brother Anthony's stroke and subsequent coma, she was devastated. Only a few years earlier, the 33-year-old New York native had lost both of her parents and had battled poor health and depression herself as a result.

Despite recommendations from numerous doctors that Anthony's family pull the plug, insisting he would remain a vegetable, Elena did not give up, and instead turned to spirituality and her holistic health food background to help bring back her brother.

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Wall Flowers: LiveRoof's "Living" Green Wall System Could Turn Your Wall Into a Vegetable Garden

By Nicole Danna Thu., Feb. 21 2013 at 11:17 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Eco-Friendly
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Indoor living walls are popular in homes and businesses throughout Europe, Australia -- even Mexico.
In the not-too-near-future, your next home or office lobby may not be painted, or even decorated with wall paper. It could be alive.

Alive with plants, of course. But before we go planting gardens indoors, perhaps we should start with "living" exterior walls and roofs, first. Here, in South Florida, the idea hasn't taken root (sorry, I had to) the way it has in cities like Manhattan, Chicago, Seattle and Portland, where green building has become a popular trend.

When it comes to living roofs and walls on commercial buildings, the U.S. is still far behind many countries across Europe, where green roofs and walls -- both indoors and out -- have been in use for close to 30 years. Taking the trend one step further, cities like Toronto, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark have started specific mandates for the installation of green roofs on most new construction.

Why? Turns out growing a garden on your building can save a lot of money -- and the environment.

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