by Leah Zerbe, an online editor at Rodalenews.com. I lived a pretty dysfunctional farm life growing up. The fields were filled with corn or soy commodity crops, not delicious, nourishing people food. My late grandfather’s pigsty and chicken coop were long-abandoned and falling apart, and no one particularly cared to fix them up. The farm […]
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5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens

A Visit to My Kitchen: Cheryl Forberg from The Biggest Loser
Cheryl Forberg is hanging out in my kitchen today, chatting about her good old Midwest food favorites, and why she’s jumping on the backyard chickens bandwagon. Cheryl Forberg, RD, is the nutritionist for The Biggest Loser and co-creator of the eating plan. A James Beard Award–winning chef, she is the author of Positively Ageless (Rodale, […]
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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Organic 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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