by guest blogger Lisa Bronner, writer of the blog Going Green with a Bronner Mom Fresh food—the stuff of life that nourishes, builds, and heals and that, with its rich abundance of nutrients, should make up the bulk of a healthy diet—boasts a fundamental difference from its prepackaged and processed cousins: It is able to rot. […]
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Cooking Up Delicious Memories
by the Rodale’s team Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away! Can you believe it? Time flies. And soon the holidays will have come and gone; but the good news is that the special memories made throughout this season can last a lifetime—especially those formed in the kitchen! To celebrate the good times shared while […]
GMOs and The Right To Know: We’ve Already Got It!
I completely support and admire the efforts of everyone around the country (and world) fighting the good fight and attempting to work through our government to give us the Right to Know about GMOs. But for the average consumer who just wants to keep GMOs out of his or her family’s bodies, there already is […]
The Lost Art of Making Popcorn From Scratch
I never quite took to the whole microwave popcorn thing. Sure, it’s easy, but making popcorn from scratch is easy, too—and it tastes so freaking delicious! Even better with real butter! Hmmm, it’s better with butter…isn’t that some sort of ad slogan? If it isn’t yet, it should be. Butter is key. Remember those hideous […]
Can Organic Agriculture Really Reverse Climate Change?
by guest blogger “Coach” Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute executive director Over the past 14 days, I have been on a walk—a walk that, I hope, will change the way that we look at climate change. Each day I walk 10 miles on a journey from the Rodale Institute in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, to Washington, DC. Along […]
Feeding the World with Love
Food made with love tastes better. Perhaps we can all remember a special meal from our childhood, one where a simple dinner steeped with family love stayed with us long after we left the table. Food grown with love tastes different, too. Food cultivated and harvested with tender care contains more than just nutrition and […]
10 Best Brain-Boosting Foods
by guest blogger Peggy Kotsopoulos, registered holistic nutritionist, culinary consultant, and author of Kitchen Cures: Revolutionize Your Health with Foods that Heal Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten what you came in for? Or bumped into someone on the street whom you’ve met repeatedly, but you still can’t remember his or […]
Quick and Yummy Basic Fruit Cobbler, This Time Peach!
Every once in a while I find myself with too much ripe fruit—more than can be eaten before it goes bad. Like the other day…too many peaches! I know that almost seems impossible given my deep love for summer peaches. But maybe that’s why I buy too many when they are truly ripe and then […]
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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