Every holiday has its feast, right? As more people than ever before make vital connections between the ways we grow and …
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Ecosalon Recipes: Last of the Root Cellar Recipe: Spiced Celery Root Soup with Bacon and Honey
For seasonal eating, now is one of those in-between times – there are the squashes and sweet potatoes of winter an…
The 5 Day 'Eat Low on the Food Chain' Meal Challenge
There are many environmental and health reasons to adopt a mostly vegetarian or strict vegetarian diet. Even skipping me…
The Healthy, Sustainable, & Delicious Salmon Alternative
A few weeks back I talked about the collapse of the northern California salmon fishery. As a way to continue to have our…
5 Reasons to Join a CSA Now
Spring planting, in full gear here, means a bounty of seasonal, local, organic eating that will build to the crescendo o…
Ecosalon Recipes: Seasonal Eating: Roasted Beets (Plus Seven Tasty Suggestions)
Since beets do well in warm and cool weather, they are one of the few produce items that are in season year round in man…
Super Soaking
Why Soak Grains? You may have seen recipes for rice, barley, quinoa, or other grains that require soaking and wondered w…
Black Chamba Pots Give Soups, Stews, & Beans Deeper Flavor
Whenever guests come over and see something simmering away on the stove in my Black Chamba Pot, they ooh and ahh a littl…