
The biggest chocolate buying holiday is just weeks away, but before you go out and purchase bags of conventional chocolate, there are few things you should know about what you are endorsing when you buy this candy. While children in the U.S. are increasingly looking forward to the mounds of sweets they will collect this Halloween on their trick-or-treating excursions, children in other parts of the country are being sold as slaves by their own families and forced to work in abusive conditions for the cocoa crops that supply most of the conventional chocolate sold in stores.
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Cress: A Rare Vegetable that Grows in the Dead of Winter
For Christmas, W and I amassed quite a haul of stuff to make our balcony more exciting. From a wormery to a bird feeder, to a beautiful box of seeds and tips from Allotinabox. I even got a can with a sunflower seed in it. Eating locally just got a whole lot more local.
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