October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, a time that reminds us to be mindful of our health before diving headfirst into the cookie jar. A vegetarian diet presents a lot of advantages because many meat-free foods such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes are high-fiber, and low-fat and free from harmful chemicals. In addition, a vegetarian diet [...]
Food for Thought: Five Signs That Backyard Gardening Might Soon Be a Survival Skill 1. Rising produce prices. The grass has ’riz and so has the price of most foods, which is particularly devastating just now when so many Americans are unemployed, underemployed, retired or retiring, or on declining or fixed incomes. In some American [...]
Garden for Your Life: Five Exciting Reasons—and One Downright Scary One—You Should Learn to Grow Food This Year Just in time for Earth Day (April 22), dig into the gifts of gardening. Learn why growing your own veggies and fruits may be more than a richly rewarding pastime—it may actually be a lifesaver (literally). By [...]
Getting Started in the Garden: Thirteen Tips for “Veggie Virgins” and Other Inexperienced Food Growers Tips from Ellen LaConte, author of Life Rules: Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it (Green Horizon, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4502-5918-7, $21.95, www.ellenlaconte.com) Don’t assume lack of space is a deal-breaker. [...]
Yesterday we made Sweet Potato Bake with Apple, you can watch a video and read more here. Today I dabbled around the kitchen because I love to cook and I love to re-invent food for vegans like me (and I hear President Clinton too!) This afternoon I prepared something I have been craving for a [...]
The Complete Root Cellar Book: Building Plans, Uses and 100 Recipes By Steve Maxwell and Jennifer MacKenzie Root cellars are a natural way of storing fruits, vegetables and preserves for longer shelf life and in these hard economic times, root cellars are making a big comeback. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables are important [...]
