Late spring and during the summer can be a great time to get an amazing variety of fruits and vegetables. For example, vegetables can be amazing cooked or even raw. There are so many types and today scientists have even created their own hybrid versions of the heirloom types found from long ago. The same [...]

So what’s the deal with organic foods? Now more than ever you see labels on certain foods that say organic. Well, in a nutshell organic foods are supposed to be grown without the use of pesticides and chemicals. Some farmers claim these chemicals are needed to help them grow, others say no way. There are [...]

Farmers like anybody are trying to make money with their business. What used to happen with farmers was that locally people would buy their foods. Certainly some of it may have been shipped off, but most of it was bought and sold locally. Families did not have the luxury for centuries of heading to the [...]

No, this is not an article telling you how to improve the health of your kids. There are many ways to eat that can be wrong and many ways to eat that can be OK. There are also many people that say activity is good for kids, and some that say there can be too [...]

Now that Thanksgiving is over, more holidays are approaching. So you made it through the last month doing OK on your diet and eating healthy. Then it may be easier for you to continue down that path since you have had victory. But for some maybe you did not do so well and are not [...]

Depending on where it is you live, local living can be done. Lots of time in the health industry you hear lots of about ‘Going Local’. Basically what that means is trying to buy as much as you can from the people that live nearby. Many people start with produce, then meat and dairy from [...]

For lots of people, thanksgiving will be a time of good eating and good company. People will sit down to variations of the traditional style meal with turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. And even for the non meat eaters, they can always go with the typical standby of a tofurky… Lots of [...]