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Food Recalls...How safe are we?
By Carmella HensyelFood poisoning, Botulism, E. Coli, Hemorrhagic Colitis, Hepatitis A, Listeriosis, Salmonella, Dysentery...the list goes on and on...Not only are the foods we're eating not giving us the recommended nutrition we need, but according to the FDA, these same foods are killing us and our family members at an alarming rate of 13 men, women and children per day due to food borne illnesses. It's appalling that this is happening in our country every single day in this day and age.
Who needs a green thumb?...even the green giant will envy your vegetables
By Carmella HensyelSpring is definitely in the air...so you'd better get ready for the warm days and the opportunity to spend your free time outside in the sunshine getting your garden ready for this year's harvest.
You say you don't have a green thumb...None needed...Picture this if you can...an entire vegetable garden made out of cinder blocks...Yes I said cinder blocks...a cinder block garden is the most no-nonsense approach to a neat, easy, virtually weed free and productive garden.
No Nonsense Gardening
By Carmella HensyelI'm a city girl through and through and when I moved out West I wanted to learn it all. I wanted to learn how to camp, fish, garden and can my crops (ha, ha, ha). Well I didn't much like the camping, the wildness of the outdoors was just not what this city slicker was looking for and fishing...YUK...need I really say more? Than there was gardening UGH...what a time consuming, dirty, back breaking experience. How could I get away without doing this part???
Are you really eating healthy?
By Carmella HensyelYou're having a salad for lunch, you're steaming your veggies, you're counting calories; carbs and fat, you've even cut processed sugars from your diet...GREAT...but are you really eating healthy? Probably not... most if not all of your vegetables and fruits are treated with pesticides. Unless you are currently eating organic or all natural foods, you ARE ingesting pesticides.
Grandma's Garden...it's good for your heart, it's good for your soul...
By Carmella HensyelFor all things produced in a garden, whether salads or fruit, a poor man will eat better that has one of his own, than a rich man that has none—J.C. Loudon, from An Encyclopedia of Gardening.
Is there anything tastier than a freshly picked piece of fruit, vegetable or herb? I don't think so...
Know Farmers Know Food
By Brook Le VanAbe said it well. Too bad we didn’t heed his words more because, unfortunately, in the last 60 or so years we have gradually become an increasingly more oppressed people. The oppression I speak of is subtle, yet powerful, and it has gradually eroded our health and deprived us of great richness in our lives. In the history of our species we, who live in the “developed” world, have never been more disconnected from our food.
The Power of Local Food
By Brook Le VanWhen it comes to food, many of us do not take the same care in choosing what we buy and eat as we would in a new car or our next elected government official. We might look for color and ripeness but most of us do not think much about what we are supporting when we choose food for tonight’s dinner. Let’s face it, we are putting up with a deliriously boring lack of flavor in the foods available in our stores. You know this produce: these are the fruits and vegetables designed for their attractive color, longer shelf life, and their superior ability to be mechanically harvested not for any reason to do with the nutrition or flavor they might pass onto us. All of us, one time or another, have a taste memory of that late summer tomato. Eaten like an apple, its juices seeping into every taste bud, our bodies shouting a resounding YES! What happened to that flavor? I want it back, at least seasonally, whenever I can get it.
