I’m not a big fan of Picasso, I am sorry to say. But when I found myself in Barcelona recently with my 14-year-old daughter, I felt we had to do something other than shop and eat, something redeeming with our time there. And so we went to the Picasso museum of Barcelona, known in Spanish […]
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High Season for Gardeners
Anyone who gardens knows that this time of year is probably the most important time of all. Certainly, the local nurseries know it, since they need people just to direct traffic on the weekends. It’s the time for planting, mulching, beautifying, cleaning up, and spiffing up. Hard work now should pay off in lots of […]
Best in Show at the Natural Products Expo
Late last week I took my 12-year-old daughter Eve to the Natural Products Expo West trade show, in Anaheim, California, for the first time. Suddenly, she realized I have a really cool job. We didn’t have time to see everything, since I was mainly there to be part of a panel sponsored by Nature’s Path, […]
Washington Vibe
This past weekend I took my family to the Green Expo in Washington DC. Green Expo is a series of consumer shows around the country on everything green, organic, and good for the planet. I went to humbly accept a check on behalf of the Rodale Institute for a program with Organic Valley and Nature’s […]
What We Can Learn about Working with People from Working with Horses
I’m one of those women who would have been horse-crazy as a girl if my parents had allowed it. So I tentatively began learning about horses after I grew up. One of the places I started at was called Last Chance Ranch (doesn’t that sound like a great title for a romance novel?). There, Lori […]
Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die
For some crazy reason I don’t have a vacation planned for this August. One day I looked at my calendar, and there was no room left to get away—when you combine my schedule, my husband’s schedule, and all the kids’ events, it makes it hard to take trips unless you plan way in advance. So […]
Fuzz Is My New Buzz
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older (with the granny glasses to prove it), but I’m starting to tire of the whole “buzz”-chasing world. Now, it’s all about fuzz for me. What’s fuzz? It’s the happy feeling and comfort of a warm, soft cashmere blanket, or a place that just delivers the goods over and over […]
Greetings from Maine: The Top 10 Things I Love about “Vacationland”
This is my eighth summer visiting Maine. No, I don’t have a summerhouse here, but all my kids go to camp in Maine, so once a year we pack up, load it all into the truck, and head up north. Over the years we’ve stayed in lots of different places and tried lots of things. […]
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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