Moving Towards Sustainability Book Club / Potluck Tues, May 10, 7pm 317 Massachusetts Ave, Haworth 07641 Book: Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World by HRH The Prince of Wales Please share potluck & discussion even if you haven’t finished the book. More info: www.agroliving.com Traditional Super Foods: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Research with […]
May 10, 2011
If you shop brand name foods at brand name supermarkets, then Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are in 90% of your food. Top Reasons to avoid GMO foods at all cost: * Evil Terminator Gene * Causes death, cancer and deformities when tested on lab animals * Kills farmers, literally * Pollutes the environment – cides, […]
May 8, 2011
I’m so excited! I finally received my order of Horizon Herb seeds and potted Elderberry trees.. and can’t wait to begin making my own medicine and growing beautiful and delicious food. Open-pollinated, non-GMO, heirloom seeds are bee friendly, self-perpetuating (read food security) and good for the earth. According to the Horizon Herb catalog “Elderberries are […]
May 8, 2011
Every Spring, as other people are celebrating warm weather and basking in the sun, I get hit with itchy eyes, nose and throat, runny nose and congestion headaches. In the past I wouldn’t hesitate to pop antihistamines, but since I’ve been pregnant and nursing, I’ve suffered through it. This Spring I’m determined to find a […]
May 5, 2011
This is my favorite article on raw milk. I’m copying and pasting it here because I recently googled it and found an anti-raw milk article on this newspaper instead and thought “uh, oh better grab this before they get rid of it.” You can read it on the Bangor News website or read it here. […]
May 5, 2011
All milk is not created equal. The dairy industry wants us to believe otherwise. I’m not brave. The brainwashing got to me too. I was fearful to drink my first glass of raw milk, but then I realized.. This is great stuff! And I learned the truth behind the lies. A glass of milk from […]
May 3, 2011
This dish evokes my all time favorite childhood memory of my mother in America. She used to take me out to the fields and forage fiddlehead ferns to make this Korean dish of simmered braised fiddleheads. If you have ever eaten bibimbap in a Korean restaurant, then you’ve tasted gosari. They are the brown meaty […]
May 2, 2011
Yummy cod liver salad. I found this great recipe for cod liver salad on the Dave’s Cupboard blog. I have to say it is quite tasty. I added a bit of mustard and tabasco sauce to mine. You can find canned cod liver in a Russian or Eastern European grocery store. Note: eat this in […]
May 1, 2011
Here’s my recipe for stinging nettle pie, last night’s dinner. According to the Portland Tribune “Nettles are a super food.. They contain 40 percent protein. You’d have to eat a sink full of kale to get the protein in one serving of nettles. A handful of nettles provides more than 100 percent of the recommended […]
May 1, 2011
Since I adopted Stinging Nettles as my wild herb to study this year, I decided to take another foraging lesson to get additional perspective (a wise woman’s point of view) on this herb and foraging in general. Tara Bowers, of Howling Wolf Biodynamic Farm in Hope, NJ offered an affordable foraging lesson ($20) on the […]
May 10, 2011
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