By the time you read this, they will be on their way home: 8 in-laws for the weekend, dinner for 12 on Friday night, lunch for 18 on Saturday, and Easter lunch for 26 on Sunday. It all takes weeks of preparation, none of which my husband quite understands. Massive lists and multiple trips to […]
By Maria
It’s Candy Time!
I try to be healthy and good and stay away from sugar. (My grandfather once wrote a book called Sugar and the Criminal Mind!) But with candy-crazy kids and a husband who only enjoys reading books about candy, it’s dang hard. Plus, we seem to live in Candy Central. We are a gumdrop away from […]
Murder, Mayhem, and Misery…for Pleasure?
I have officially entered the realm of old-fogy-dom, since I am about to complain about what’s on TV. Last week 13 people were murdered in Binghamton, NY, a town I drive through regularly on my way to my in-laws’ house. It seems that every day we hear that children have suffered abuse, and families have […]
Top 10 Tips for Getting Along with Family During Holidays
This week brings Passover and Easter, so a lot of folks are going to get together with family, whether they like it or not. I’m not a therapist, but as a member of a functional family business and a wife about to host her 9 in-laws for the weekend, for about the 12th time, I […]
April Showers Bring May Flowers…and Floods?
It’s pouring right now in Pennsylvania. It’s the kind of rain that makes the worms come out and try to swim across the driveway. (What’s up with that?) It’s the kind of rain that if I was in New York City today I would absolutely not be able to get a taxi, and I would […]
The Top 10 Most Important Things for Healthy Babies
My friend Danielle is just about to have her second child. The other day she asked me for my advice on what baby products to use, and not to use, because it seems like every year something changes and there are new recommendations. Since my youngest will turn 3 this summer, it’s all still fresh […]
The Long and Magical Road from Idea to Fruition
I just finished the first real draft of my next book, The Organic Manifesto. I had the idea for it almost exactly one year ago today (I remember because it was my father’s birthday, March 27th). A year doesn’t really seem that long when I look back and see all I’ve learned and done in […]
Turn Out the Lights!
Tomorrow, March 28th, at 8:30 pm local time, wherever we are, we are all supposed to turn out the lights for Earth Hour. An hour of darkness will save us all a lot of energy–and it might actually bring us closer together. About two years ago I asked my family to kindly indulge me in […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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