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Okay, okay, I know what you’re thinking: CAMEL milk?? As in, camel, the animal with two humps that people ride across the desert? People drink their milk?! Well yes, they do, and it’s not much different than drinking plain old cow’s milk. In fact, camel milk has been consumed for thousands of years.

While we were tempted to share purely healthy recipes, we decided in order to truly honor Halloween there needed to be a little balance. So, featured here are three purely healthy recipes that will get you in the spirit and have your kids excited to reach for fruit, as well as three recipes that strike the perfect balance between healthy and indulgent—recipes that will satisfy the inevitable sugar cravings on this sweet and spooky holiday, but that also rely on simple, real ingredients to get you there. After all, without a little sugar rush, Halloween would really just be a glorified costume party. Enjoy!

On October 16th, 1945, 42 countries met in Quebec, Canada, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded. The FAO was built on the belief that the elimination of hunger for all people of the world can be achieved, and a desire to effectively manage the global food system so that it works for everyone. Every year, World Food Day is celebrated on October 16th in order to honor that commitment.

The debate over what is healthy and what is not is a thriving one. Contradicting diet fads and contradicting studies abound. Chances are, through all of the noise, you have developed some sense of what you consider healthy to mean, and if so, the FDA wants to know about it.

On Saturday, September 24th, 2016 several members of 1000ecofarms.com team had a pleasure of participating in a farm tour and dinner at Forested Farm - a 10-acre research forest garden just outside of Washington, DC. We will publish more information about the work done at the farm soon, but for now please enjoy some photos from the event!

If the word ‘persimmon’ sounds foreign to you, you’re probably not alone. The yellowish-orange fruit resembling a tomato is not incredibly popular in the United States — but it should be!

There are plenty of things conscious consumers might try to avoid when purchasing food, such as high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and artificial dyes. Plastic, however, doesn’t typically fall on this list. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what was found in Tyson Foods chicken nuggets.

Despite the fact that many grocery shoppers are opting to purchase meat that was raised without antibiotics, most don’t make the same consideration when dining out, likely due to a lack of transparency from restaurants. However, a new report has documented the 25 largest fast food and fast-casual chains and ranked them according to their antibiotic policies.

Last week, many people found themselves feeling shocked, and perhaps a little betrayed, at the news that in the 1960s the sugar industry paid scientists at Harvard to downplay the role of sugar in heart disease and instead play up the role of saturated fat. While the news is no doubt troubling, one thing it really shouldn’t be is shocking.

If a single fruit or vegetable can be considered “trendy”, then certainly avocados take the title. Pictures of avocado toast — which people will pay close to $20 for — run rampant on foodie Instagram feeds, and articles exclaiming “avocados: it’s a lifestyle” are plenty. However, it’s true that the fruit (yes, fruit) is interesting, delicious, and healthy enough to live up to the hype.

Ask the average person whether or not the government should require GMOs to be labeled, and chances are they have some sort of an opinion. Ask the average person what they think about the national GMO labeling law that passed this year, and they’ll probably have no idea what you’re talking about.

The end of summer is near and that means one delicious thing for many Americans: fresh sweet corn. Unfortunately, the rest of the year Americans tend to eat a lot more of the processed kind.