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...program has been a success in southern Nepal's Bagmara Forest, where the WWF and the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation helped local people set up a tree nursery. Tigers returned to the area, and locals are able to harvest timber, fuel wood and grasses according to a strict management plan. Local people also benefit directly from the return of wildlife. They collected about $73,000 last year from tourists who came to see tigers, elephants and rhinos in their forest...
...like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood, tel: (44-1803) 867 462, located just five minutes out of town and run by an exemplary new Totnes resident, Heather Nicholson?a practicing nutritional therapist and iridologist (someone who claims to be able to diagnose ailments by studying the iris). This "organic bed-and-breakfast" is housed in a beautifully converted barn, overlooking an undulating patchwork quilt of fields. Guest rooms are decorated in colors that represent "harmonious auras," while breakfasts are prepared according to your food tolerances. Needless to say, there isn't a cream tea in sight...
...room. Nearby, small boutiques boast Japanese, British and other European designer threads, while others hawk surf and skater wear. And despite its ramshackle-sounding name, housewares retailer Tumble Home, tel: (44-1803) 863024, stocks a collection of funky furniture. If you'd like to spend the night, try Norwegian Wood, tel: (44-1803) 867462, located five minutes out of town and run by an exemplary new Totnes resident, Heather Nicholson - a practicing nutritional therapist and iridologist (someone who claims to be able to diagnose ailments by studying the iris). This "organic bed-and-breakfast" is housed in a beautifully converted...
Ranchers such as the Wood family, along with fishermen, and fruit and vegetable growers, are spurring a movement to change the way consumers shop for food. While imports have doubled in a decade, swelling to 13% of the U.S. diet, most Americans have no idea where their produce originates. T shirts and TVs are required to carry labels--but not T-bones. Only shipping containers must disclose the source of most raw agricultural products: once beef is sliced into stew meat, or apples are tumbled into display bins, the information is rarely passed on to customers. That suits the giant...
...might capture a bigger share of the dollar that now goes to processors and retailers. But will customers care whether beef is born and raised in Canada or California? Whether tomatoes hail from Mexico or Florida? Whether salmon is Alaskan or Chilean? No one is certain. Nonetheless, rancher Darrell Wood, farmer Chuck Obern and fisherman Scott McAllister are counting...