CNN published this story yesterday on Jack Cafferty’s blog: “Organic food is no healthier or more nutritious than regular food. But it is more expensive. That’s according to a study commissioned by the British government and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.”

I have not one but two giveaways to announce today! One is for an exciting real food cookbook called How to Cook Like Your Grandmother. The second one is for a bottle of Erbaorganics organic baby lotion (made with coconut oil!) at the Green + Chic blog.

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This was a really good dinner: Wild Alaskan Salmon, Caprese Salad, Buttered Corn and Rice Cooked in Homemade Chicken Stock. This is a post I still had in draft form that I meant to post before I left for the WAPF conference. But then all hell broke loose getting ready for the trip so it [...]

I happened upon this trailer this morning and was so inspired and excited, I had to post it. It’s a trailer for a documentary about young farmers and the agricultural revival movement taking place in our country. From The Greenhorns website: The Greenhorns is a documentary film that explores the lives of America’s young farming [...]

We’re going home to California tomorrow. Before we go, I wanted to share a few photographs I took today of my family’s hometown, Oregon, Ohio. Oregon is just outside of Toledo, just south of Lake Erie. Our family has lived here for generations. My great grandfather and my grandfather were farmers until they got driven [...]

My friend Liz (above left) and I (above right) took a trip up to Three Stone Hearth last Thursday. I have a lot of photos so I’m going to split this up into a number of posts. Three Stone Hearth is a community supported kitchen (or CSK) in Berkeley, California, founded by Jessica Prentice, Larry [...]

Jessica Prentice, author of the cookbook, “Full Moon Feast”, is kind of a rock star in the local food arena. She is the person who coined the word, “locavore”, which is now an actual word in the dictionary. She’s also co-owner of Three Stone Hearth, a community supported kitchen in Berkeley, California. What’s a community [...]