The other day I was at an amazing Indian dance concert featuring a friend of my daughter. This young woman performed, for two hours, a classic Indian dance known as Bharatnatyam Arangetram. And she plays golf, too. She is heading off to high school, already a stellar example of what a woman of today can […]
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Cleaning Out: What Was I Thinking?
I don’t know about you, but every once in a while I get in the mood to clean out…REALLY clean out. The kind of clean-out that starts at one end and keeps going till there are bags of trash and stuff to get rid of, piled up high. What made me think of this was […]
My Father’s Hankies and the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day
WTF do these two things have to do with each other, you ask? I’ll explain. I was sitting at the computer this morning and I went to clean my glasses. I’ve been using my father’s hankies to clean them. My father died over 20 years ago, but I’ve only recently come into possession of his […]
5 Lessons for My Daughters
This past week I was on a “staycation” at home for spring break. My husband was out of town so it was just me and my girls, cleaning out and doing whatever we felt like doing. I realized that because I work a lot, I hadn’t taken the time to share some of my guiding […]
Death and the Holidays
This post is dedicated to Warren and Lisa. Sunday, December 12, 2010, would have been my brother David’s 58th birthday. He died suddenly of AIDS two days before Christmas (suddenly—he was diagnosed and died three days later), and this is the 25th anniversary of his death. Last year, on the 19th of December, my mother […]
The Joy of Family Gardening
This appears in the December/January edition of Organic Gardening magazine. For great gardening, cooking, and living tips, pick the issue up today! I learned about flowers from my mother. Her goal was to get the flowers planted before the Indy 500 was over, in late May, and up until her last few years she was […]
Kid-Approved Organic Halloween Candy Taste Test
By guest blogger Dana Blinder The eerie orange glow of candles, a dark parade of costumes, and pillowcases full of candy—the season for spooks, scares, and screams is approaching. Halloween is great for scary movies, haunted houses, and spooky costumes, but not for terrifying treats. Study the Frankenstein-like ingredients list on the back of any […]
Why I Can’t Live without Coffee
See the results from Rodale.com’s organic coffee taste test here! Whenever I give a speech and talk about local versus organic, I joke about how, being from Pennsylvania, I am totally against local when it comes to my coffee. Here’s the truth: I’M NOT JOKING! Don’t get between me and my coffee, or you might […]
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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