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specialty food shoppers said their No. 1 concern is that their food is traceable; 91 percent of the shoppers said they want their food to be traceable to where it was grown or manufactured. In addition, 68 percent of shoppers said they buy specialty food items because they are locally grown or produced, 57 percent said they purchase them because it they are produced by companies that are green or have sustainable practices, and 57 percent said they buy them because the manufacturers are ethical. - Aaron Raddon

I listened to local small farmers take turns talking about their issues: horror stories about trying to sell to grocery store chains, the struggle to get apathetic people involved in the town farmer's market. - Aaron Raddon

We are an Organization of local farms offering produce for sale directly to the public through u-pick and farm stands in Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah counties in Oregon. - Aaron Raddon

With the popularity of locally grown vegetables soaring, a new Web site hopes to make it easier for chefs to find farmers in their area — and have produce delivered to their restaurants. The idea behind FarmsReach.com is to provide one-stop-shopping for fresh produce from many farms at once. - Aaron Raddon

to mix the marinade ingredients together and pour this over the meat. Cover the mixture and refrigerate overnight. Pour the meat and the marinade into an ovenproof casserole or pot and bake, covered, for 2 to 2-1/2 hours, or until tender. The method described above, although not so traditional, brings out the flavors of the onion, garlic and pork because the ingredients are caramelized or browned first. Whichever method you choose, the dish is full of flavor and will be a favorite. You can serve the Carne Adovada over chile rellenos, rice, wrapped in a flour tortilla as a burrito, or with beans and posole. - Aaron Raddon

Hemlock is an open-source framework that combines the richness of Flash with the scalability of XMPP, facilitating a new class of web applications where multiple users can interact in real time. Games, workspace collaboration, educational tools… The only limit is your imagination. - Aaron Raddon

notes about how often google releases software - Aaron Raddon

FreeIPA is an integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), Fedora Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS. It consists of a web interface and command-line administration tools. Currently it supports identity management with plans to support policy and auditing management. - Aaron Raddon

great documentation on a handshake delegated url authentication similar to AuthSub, oauth - Aaron Raddon

Did the TED player - Aaron Raddon

A web - Aaron Raddon

doesn't require install, native php - Aaron Raddon

NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. - Aaron Raddon

Mullenweg envisions the upgrade process to work just like Firefox: one-click, with a list of plugin and theme incompatibilities generated. WordPress.org’s plugin directory (and a recently-launched theme directory) will help make this possible. - Aaron Raddon

svg/vml - Aaron Raddon

dean edwards mini documentation tool - Aaron Raddon

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. - Aaron Raddon

Scala - Aaron Raddon

great idea for assignment grader - Aaron Raddon

small and embeddable python templatting - Aaron Raddon

nice help page - Aaron Raddon

nice comment system - Aaron Raddon

Google has announced the open source release of one of their internal security tools "ratproxy". Ratproxy is used for passively assessing web application security: - Aaron Raddon

wikinear.com - Aaron Raddon

cool idea for tagging area's of knowledge people have. - Aaron Raddon

great documentation, and potentially template for api design - Aaron Raddon

check out the loading portions, and compression utilities - Aaron Raddon

is this an annotation? - Aaron Raddon

powers the django signals framework - Aaron Raddon

Elisa is an open source cross-platform Media Center connecting the internet to your all-in-one media player - Aaron Raddon