From our friends at Healthy Monday…
It’s Monday – time to kick off a week of healthy eating. If you shop today for fresh produce, you can easily plan a week’s worth of delicious, nutritious menus, and what better place to begin than at your local farmers’ market? Eating locally makes sense, and farmers’ markets are [...]

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This week we’re going to look at the money we spend on food, particularly at the rising cost of products and how much we spend. In short, while food prices have gone up each year, the proportion of our income we spend on food has decreased. So, over the years, we’re spending less [...]

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A recent New York Times Article, “Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas,” makes an argument for feeding cows more grass and supplementing their diets with Omega 3-rich Flax seed. The results are cows that burp less methane, therefore lowering their impact on climate change. This would seem innocent enough if it weren’t [...]

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I’m really sad and a bit embarrassed to say that I didn’t sign up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share this season! I had all sorts of reasons at the time sign-up time came along – I wasn’t the happiest with my CSA last year (the one I had the year before made it [...]

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So you’re walking through the grocery store, looking to buy some organic macaroni and cheese, but there are so many options these days, which one to buy? What companies treat their workers fairly, what is their carbon footprint, how does the product weigh on your health? In today’s modern society, there are so many questions [...]

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This post is by Stacey, one of our guest bloggers. Self-proclaimed NYC Milkmaid, you can see more of her writing on her own blog, JustBraise.com.
Kombucha (Kam-boo-cha). Or as I like to call it, “booch.”
Kombu-wha?
That was my reaction when I first heard about the sparkly slightly tangy beverage. My first encounter with kombucha caught me by [...]

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With all the diet and fitness crazes, the infomercials and public service campaigns, launched over the last two decades, you’d suspect that Americans had increasingly embraced healthy habits. But an important new study in the American Journal of Medicine reveals just the opposite. Between 1988 and 2006, adults adopted consistently fewer healthy practices. Regular exercise [...]

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