Vegetarian Star

In addition to vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free food, Chelsea Clinton insisted on organic flowers for her wedding this past weekend to Marc Mezvinsky.

Florist Jeff Leatham told US Magazine, “It was very important [to Chelsea] to keep it organic and natural…The theme, floral wise, was organic, clean, simple and elegant.”

The happy couple and their guests may have breathed easier without many traditional pesticides and fungicides that are banned in North America for being carcinogenic and causing multiple health problems like nausea, neurological and reproductive problems in workers tending to the plants.

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Johnny Marr may have sang along to “Meat is Murder” when he played with The Smiths and he still follows a vegan diet today. However, his plant counterpart has no problem trapping innocents bugs and gulping them down. Guess everyone has an evil twin.

Horticulturalist Matt Soper was at first worried about what the British rocker would think about being named after the North American Pitcher Plant.

“It is a carnivore so that was the bit I was concerned about, whether he’d be up for it, but his manager tells me he’s really pleased. It is a plant after all so it can’t help being carnivorous,” Soper said.

Soper’s new hybrid brand of the plant is officially named Sarracenia Johnny Marr and will be displayed at both plant shows and the Chelsea Flower Show next year.

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A Subway Sandwich shop in Japan is taking fresh to the next level.

The restaurant located in the Marunouchi Building, which is located across the street from the Tokyo Station, has created a hydroponic garden for growing lettuce. Hydroponic involves culturing plants in a solution versus soil, that is free of normal chemicals applied on conventional crops.

As of now, the hydroponic garden is not practical to satisfy everyone who walks through the store, as there will only be enough leaves to feed about 5% of customers. In addition, fresh leaves will cost twice as much as regular.

Will this be a successful step in providing more locally grown ingredients in Subway shops? And will it catch on in the U.S.? Will Jared Fogle star in a new commercial raving about how hydroponic lettuce keeps him fit?

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As a seasoned actor, Mark Ruffalo doesn’t mind the cameras and director’s orders, but he’s just as comfortable with the soil and the hoe.

The actor told the New York Times, he enjoys spending time in his garden in Sullivan County, New York that is currently home to corn, zucchini and tomatoes.

“Wendell Berry says the greatest act of independence and rebellion is to maintain a garden,” Ruffalo said, of the author of Bring It To The Table: On Farming and Food. “You’re taking yourself out of a kind of capitalist culture and you’re making a point of self-sustenance.”

What items are you growing to stick it to the man this season?

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Michelle Obama hosted several celebrities chefs at the White House garden, including Rachael Ray and Cat Cora, to harvest vegetables with school children to prepare a meal for the group to eat. Unfortunately, not every part of the meal was vegetarian, but the First Lady encouraged the chefs to help schools nationwide plant gardens.

About 900 chefs are signed up in the “Chefs Move to Schools” program, which pairs chefs with school communities to teach children and parents cooking skills and nutrition.

“You know more about food than almost anyone, other than the grandmas, and you’ve got the visibility and the enthusiasm to match that knowledge,” said Mrs. Obama during a speech.

The actual footage of the chefs and children harvesting vegetables from the garden takes place around minute 19:00.

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For the first time ever, Prince Charles will open the garden located at his official residence to the public as part of his Start Initiative designed to encourage UK residents to adopt more sustainable living habits.

During the 12 days of September 8th through the 19th, the “Garden Party To Make A Difference” will feature exhibitions, interactive displays and live performances with celebrities such as designer Vivienne Westwood taking part in the launch.

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A White House Garden Cookbook

A new cookbook is set to roll out this month that features the chefs from the White House sharing favorite recipes created from vegetables from the White House South Lawn garden.

A White House Garden Cookbook keeps Michelle Obama’s standards for focusing more on plants to reduce childhood obesity and other healthcare issues.

One deliciously sounding recipe features not only plant based protein of garbanzo beans, but a vegetable broth based soup topped with soy sour cream.

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The Environmental Media Association and Yes To Carrots teamed up to launch “The Garden Challenge” that encourages students to get acquainted with growing their own produce in a contest where schools competed for a gardening grant.

Students uploaded videos explaining why a garden would be a great addition to their schools.

Daryl Hannah, Wendie Malick, and Rosario Dawson all have words to say in the video at CBS as they’re outside among students and cabbage.

Hannah thinks a school garden will make students less fearful of vegetables.

“I become a vegetarian when I was 11, but I was always afraid of vegetables,” Hannah said. “It wasn’t until I actually started growing them that I was not afraid to eat them.”

A video of the event can be viewed at CBS.

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