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 […]
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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 […]
Frankenfood or Real Food?
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, www.gustorganics.com. America is an overfed and undernourished country. About 80 percent of the population is considered overweight, and almost one-third is obese. According to the National Cancer Institute, serious diseases that are linked to what we eat kill an estimated three out of four Americans […]
5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens
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 […]
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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