White House Garden Petition

Here’s a great blog post linking to a petition to our next president to plant an organic garden in part of the White House’s 18 acres of lawn, like has been done in the past. In a time where food prices are rising, this would be a great example for the rest of the country [...]

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Here’s the basic process for making HFCS:
corn –> (milled into) corn starch –>
(processed into) corn syrup + enzymes (change glucose to fructose)
= high fructose corn syrup
Google high fructose corn syrup and you’ll find a plethora of articles about it being bad for us. There are possible health concerns with diabetes and high cholesterol, and it [...]

Book Review: This Organic Life

I just finished a book that may have changed the way I look at eating produce. The book, This Organic Life, 2001, (see link to right under “Good Reads”) is by Joan Dye Gussow, a woman who must be in her 80s now, and writes about her experiences growing all her own vegetables (and some [...]

Pick Your Organics

If like me, you can’t always justify buying organic fruits & veggies (yikes– $7 for a half pint of organic blueberries last time I was Safeway!!), here’s a great reference. Click the link and you can download a handy little wallet-sized guide to the 12 highest & 12 lowest f’s & v’s in pesticides. I [...]

Community Supported Agriculture

Today’s post is about an awesome program called CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). I had never heard of it until my friend Sarah (yep, my #1 research assistant again) told me about it. She and her husband get a box of fresh vegetables delivered to them every other week from a local farm- it’s [...]

BPA- yikes!

I’ve been trying to research BPA- that dangerous chemical found in plastics, and canned food. Here’s an interesting timeline of it (I mostly skimmed until the last section on the most recent events)– click HERE. I also posted a link in the sidebar with general BPA info.
I’ve never been a big fan of Wal-Mart but [...]