Veggie pHortification
January 24, 2011
By Jennifer Reilly RD LD
Maintaining a slightly alkaline system is ideal for health and a properly running immune system. Your acid-alkaline balance is measured with pH, which is on a scale of 0-14. An alkaline pH is anything above 7 while an acidic pH is anything below 7. Optimally, you want to be a little alkaline, around 7.365. Certain foods make our blood and tissue more or less acidic, and I bet you can guess which ones are the… Read More >
Crazy About Composting
July 10, 2009
By Sophie Uliano
I am crazy about composting. Each time I toss veggie scraps into the little ceramic compost crock on my kitchen counter, I am thrilled that every little morsel is going to good use. We need good topsoil – the planet is desperately in need of it, which is why in countries like Sweden, composting is mandatory. It’s amazing to realize that topsoil is the earth’s skin and we are entirely dependent on it for our… Read More >
35 Years on a Small Organic Farm
May 1, 2009
By Brian Fassett
A slice of Edible Heaven The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nowhere is this truer than on a small organic farm deep in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. On Earth Day last week I craved a reality check, so I called my friends Rusty and Sue Nuffer, who have spent most of the past four decades with their hands deep in the dirt. When I called, Sue picked up the phone… Read More >
Eat Your Vegetables!
March 4, 2009
By Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Before introducing our super duper guest blogger today, I want to give a shout out to the Goddess Group fasters! xo, Kris “If we don’t have time to be sick, then we have to make time to be healthy.” ~Colleen Patrick-Goudreau If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard a thousand times: “Eat Your Vegetables!” From the day we moved onto solid foods until we moved out of the house, we heard this culinary command at… Read More >
TIME Talks Veggie Power
February 24, 2009
By Corinne
Check out this amazing article from Time Magazine. Its packed with cool facts about the positive impact of a plant-based diet on the environment and your health! Even if you take baby steps, find out the awesome ways you can benefit your body and the planet just by making some lifestyle changes. Eat Your Greens by Bryan Walsh Time Magazine Thursday, February 12, 2009 If you really want to go green, the conventional thinking goes,… Read More >
