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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Just in time for the 2010 harvest season, Sotheby's New York will host the inaugural Tri-State Heirloom Vegetable auction, The Art of Farming, on September 23, 2010. This first-of-its-kind event will celebrate edible heirlooms and the art involved in their creation.

Organic produce is continuing its march into the mainstream, with experts tipping whole sectors of the grocery market could eventually go chemical-free.

With the help of the supermarkets

Astronauts could one day tend their own crops on long space missions, and Purdue University researchers have found a healthy candidate to help satisfy a sweet tooth - a strawberry that requires little maintenance and energy. NASA-funded research has found a cultivar, Seascape, which fruits even with short spells of simulated daylight.

You don't have to be a student to shop at Source at the University of Tasmania.I brought home from a shopping trip to Source the most beautiful cauliflower: not very big but dense, weighing in at 1.8kg.

I did not pick it from the community garden out the front of the co-op shop at Sandy Bay, but I could have collected a knife from the counter and harvested silver beet for myself: a limit of four stems, not a lot to work with, but the closest you will get to the source of bought produce.