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Environment
GROWING GREEN: An Environmentally Friendly Summer Camp
by guest blogger Marcia Theodoredis Anyone who has experienced summer camp holds those memories near and dear. They are precious to us and enduring. That experience should be available to all children. At the Growing Green residential camp, located in the Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania, Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania is making the dream of […]
Earthquakes and Hurricanes
I don’t mean to glom on to the frenzy regarding natural events of late, but it’s not every week in Pennsylvania that we get both an earthquake and a hurricane. And I did the first draft of this on a yellow tablet, hand written, while the wind was gusting. It just seemed like the thing […]
Bob and Irene were Farmers
by Wendy Gordon Bob and Irene were farmers in upstate New York. To me, they weren’t hurricanes–they were dear family friends. Actually, they sold their farm to my husband in the late ’70s, and in the years to follow, Bob helped take care of things, right up until his death. Bob knew a lot about […]
Making Meat the Old-Fashioned Way
By guest blogger Christian Berg, editor of Petersen’s BOWHUNTING magazine When you hear the words “organic protein,” you might think about free-range chicken or grass-fed beef from the local health food store. When I use the term, I’m talking about wild game meat I’ve harvested myself. I am a bowhunter, and as my friends and […]
Where Have All the Apples Gone?
By guest blogger Emily Vaughn, biodiversity program manager of Slow Foods USA Extinction isn’t just for dodos and dinosaurs: Since 1900, 97 percent of the plant species on the planet have ceased to exist. Factors like rainforest depletion, intensified land use, and now global warming, are generally credited with driving that trend. But members of […]
Beth Terry’s Plastic-free Gardening Adventure
By guest blogger Beth Terry Last fall, Rodale.com’s Dana Blinder forwarded me a cool article: Keep Your Garden Plastic-Free with These Easy Swaps. Knowing that I write the blog My Plastic-free Life, she thought the topic of gardening with less plastic might be interesting to me and to my readers. What she didn’t know was […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Laurie David
Laurie David is a global warming crusader. She helped produce Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, and is the author of several similarly themed books. Her latest is The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time. She’s in my kitchen today, sharing her special secret childhood favorite comfort […]
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.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
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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