By guest blogger Tim Mountz of Happy Cat Farm.
Webster’s Dictionary says that foraging is the act of wandering in search of food. That definition makes me laugh, since I feel like I am always wandering somewhere in search of food. My favorite food to forage is Hen of the Woods.
Tag Archives | Health
Gathering Mushrooms in the Wild: Eating in the Wind
The Importance of Just Sitting (and 5 Ways to Do It Well)
Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is sit down and relax.
Right 2 Know March Finally Arrives, Part 3
Part 3 of the Right 2 Know March on Washington to support Labeling GMO foods. We should know what we’re feeding our kids.
Eating Real…on Food Day and Every Day
National Food Day is October 24th! A day to celebrate healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. Learn more about it at foodday.org
If We Want to Continue Eating Real Food: Dr. Vandana Shiva Recommends We Support Organic Agriculture and Food Globally
by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman “The challenge of agriculture must no longer be to produce huge quantities of nutritionally unbalanced food, but rather to produce nutritionally balanced food in a sustainable way.” —Dr. Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva was recently a guest speaker at Dominican University, in San Rafael, CA, as part of Marin Organic’s 2011 […]
5 Belly-Flattening Secrets
By guest blogger Dr. Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, LAc; author of the bestselling book Secrets of Longevity. Two out of three people in the United States are overweight. Lately, there has been a lot of focus on reducing belly fat—and with good reason, as accumulated fat around the hips and abdomen points to […]
Hospitals to Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken
by Wendy Gordon Does it matter if the chicken you buy for your family is from a farm that uses low doses of antibiotics in its feed? Consider this: Premier Healthcare Alliance recently contracted with Murray’s Chicken of South Fallsburg, NY, to provide affordably priced Certified Humane Raised and Handled chicken to member hospitals and healthcare […]
Good Food Ain’t Cheap;
Cheap Food Ain’t Good (part 2 of 2)
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, www.gustorganics.com. For part 1 of this blog post, click here. “Good food ain’t cheap, cheap food ain’t good” seems to make sense to almost everybody, but, at the time of decision-making, most Americans still go for cheap food. As discussed in a previous article, The […]
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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