This is my favorite season, late summer. I recall the dimming and faint sound of crickets as their time comes to a close…
Conscious
Thirsty? You Can Eat Your Water, Too.
This 8-glasses-of-water-a-day thing makes me feel like I’m drowning. Although water is my quenching beverage of ch…
How to Find a Local Organic Dairy
Unless you’re into quaffing growth hormones with your milk, you’ve probably been buying your dairy products …
A Revolution in Time for Lunch
In elementary school one of my favorite lunches was Oscar Mayer bologna on white Wonder Bread with the ends cut off and …
Your Salad May Come with a Bullet
A disturbing trend sweeping across California’s salad farms: farmers are taking to the gun to hunt down and kill a…
Honey for Healing
I’ve always considered honey more of a medicine than a food, considering that eating small amounts of raw, local h…
Good Karma Farming
Most of us grew up thinking that Old McDonald had a farm with happy cows and happy chickens, not necessarily making the …
Salad Gets the Glow
For the first time, food irradiation techniques have been approved by the FDA for keeping salad clean and fresh. Food ir…