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Mario Batali will return to the New York Botanical Garden to help the organization kick off its 2011 gardening season and launch his Edible Garden.

On April 12, 2011, Batali will be joined by Bronx schoolchildren to celebrate both the benefits of gardening and the 25th anniversary of the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, a hands-on exhibit at the Botanical Garden that teaches gardening techniques.

Batali will prepare vegetable beds and plant seeds for his Edible Garden, an exhibit that runs for several months starting in August, featuring the celebrity chef’s favorite vegetables, cooking demonstrations from BataliĀ and recipes using plants from the garden.

Batali made one of his New Year’s resolutions for 2011 to “master more vegetarian dishes” that can be cooked as a team.

A clip of Batali at the New York Botanical Garden from a previous year can be viewed below.

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Barbara Gowdy is no stranger to speaking out for animals. A vegetarian for 30 years and a vegan for 10, Gowdy wrote the award-winning The White Bone novel based on the perspective of an African elephant.

Now, Gowdy is encouraging her readers to follow her lead and take a vegan challenge during Earth Week 2011, which takes place from April 17-23.

“As someone who makes here living as a writer and living in her imagination, I’d like to challenge everybody who lives in his or her imagination to take the Vegan Challenge and become a vegan for just a week,” Gowdy said.

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John Salley is offering his nutritional guidance to the Detroit Pistons in hopes they’ll offer him a job in exchange.

Salley has gone so far as to create the perfect job title describing how he’ll get them on the right track–Player Development, Strength and Conditioning Assistant.

When Salley and Shaquille O’Neal played together with the Los Angeles Lakers, O’Neal nicknamed Salley “the witch doctor” for his ability to diagnose and treat ailments and get players feeling better again. O’Neal has at least cut red meat from his diet.

Will Salley use his magical spells to transform the diets of the Pistons?

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If it makes you healthy. It can’t be that bad.

Actually, it’s not bad at all. It’s very good, because many of Sheryl Crow‘s 125 recipes in her new cookbook, If It Makes You Healthy, are vegan friendly.

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April is National Garden Month and what a better way to celebrate than releasing a children’s book about the White House Garden.

First Garden: The White House Garden And How it Grew from Clarion Books, is a 48-page hardcover edition aimed at 6-8 year olds, filled with recipes and colorful pictures in addition to text that traces the history of the garden, from the first dig to the harvesting of hundreds of pounds of vegetables served to the First Family and guests in the White House Kitchen.

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Flavor Flav is known for a lot of things, including wacky hats, bizarre outfits and starting the fashion trend of wearing large clocks around your neck.

Okay, so maybe not the last one.

What Flavor Flav isn’t known for, however, is being one of those cooler hip-hop artists that has embraced a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle.

Now, PETA is offering him a chance to amp up his image by making his fried chicken restarant vegetarian.

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Parenthood‘s Mae Whitman has been chosen to star with Emma Watson in a new film about a 15-year old kid struggling with the ups and downs of adolescence, including his girlfriend issues with Watson.

Whitman will play a tattooed vegetarian girlfriend of the 15-year old boy in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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The vegetarian co-founder and CEO of FEED Projects, Lauren Bush, has once again provided a trendy, environmentally friendly way to help those in need through FEED Projects’ latest bag that will provide support to organizations helping victims of the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami, the FEED Japan bag.

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