I’ve often said that I think I was a sea captain in a past life, but my son-in-law, Tony Haile, CEO of Chartbeat, actually did sail around the world. He recently wrote a blog post for his own blog that says better than I ever could what you can learn from the reality of sailing […]
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Come on Down to the 3rd Annual Organic Apple Festival!
Saturday, September 17th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is the Rodale Institute’s 3rd Annual Organic Apple Festival, where you can pick your own organic apples right from the tree AND eat an organic hotdog cooked by me. On the grill. It’s rain or shine, too. Last year the weather was perfect, and I ran […]
7 Tips for a Healthy Vacation
By guest blogger Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, LAc; author of the bestselling book Secrets of Longevity. Summer is a big season for traveling. Here are some ways to keep your health and longevity intact on your journey. 1. Flexibility is Key to Stress-Free Travel Travel can be stressful. You may miss a connecting […]
Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 2—with the Chefs!
The second part of Cooking for Solutions (see part 1) involved cooking, and lots of it! On Saturday night, 2,500 people paid $150 per person to roam about the aquarium and drink wine and eat small dishes to their hearts’ and stomachs’ content. More than 70 chefs and 60 wineries participated, and although I tried […]
Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Part 1
Every once in a while, when get invited to speak somewhere, I accept more because I know the person asking me than because I know what I’m actually signing up for. Such was the case when Myra Goodman, cofounder of Earthbound Farms and a woman I admire, respect, and adore, invited me to come to […]
Highlights from The Future of Food Conference
Highlights from The Future of Food Conference Where to begin? Well, how about with a brilliant speech by HRH Prince Charles that was practical, spiritual, and sharp. He’s not new to organic, so his passion for the topic of the future of food is both genuine, incredibly smart, and comprehensive. Here are a few of […]
What It’s Like to Meet Prince Charles
It started with a mysterious email from Eric Schlosser, who wrote the forward to my book Organic Manifesto. For security reasons, I couldn’t tell anyone anything until a few days beforehand. I just had to be in Georgetown, Washington, DC, on May 4th. I had to cancel a long-planned lunch with some romance writers—but if […]
A Whirlwind Trip to Germany
A few months ago, I got invited to be the keynote speaker at Biofach, in Nuremberg, Germany. Biofach is the world’s largest trade fair for the global organic industry. I accepted right away—not only because of the honor of being asked, but also because we have publishing partners in Hamburg, and this would give me […]
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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