TweetDid you know that the major causes of unhealth that result in 85 percent of all deaths are health issues that can be addressed through diet and lifestyle changes? The good news is that you can learn how to make healthy changes in your life, starting with learning how to eat to live. Proper diet is [...]

TweetI found this recently – and just had to pass it along. It’s just so tasty. This is an amazing healthy raw ketchup recipe that is going to become a family favorite. Studies involving the tomato have cropped up all over the world. Tomatoes are rich in lycopene and antioxidants. This ketchup makes for a [...]

TweetSo what sort of miracle does my husband want for Easter? It’s an Organic Kolsch. Wikipedia defineds Kölsch, also written Koelsch, as a local beer speciality brewed in Cologne, Germany. It is a clear beer with a bright straw-yellow hue, and it has a prominent, but not extreme, hoppiness. It is less bitter than the standard German pale lager. Furthermore, [...]

TweetI read a really great article about the food system. It almost made me slap myself – and call myself names. It’s a harsh article, really. It was a good one to read though. I do feel good about the changes that I’m making, they are just that though, slow changes. Am I doing enough, [...]

TweetThis morning after my Saturday morning hike, my friend and I made the rounds. First up was the Murray Farmer’s Market. Again it was a huge success. I got great, fresh, local produce for a very minimal price point. You have to love that. Jenson’s Farm had some of the last of their potatoes, the [...]

TweetSo – I figure to make it all winter I would need about 128 (10) ounce bags of vegetables to eat local and fresh until the season starts again. So today I started with the first 8 bags of green beans, and four bags of diced onions. I bought them both at the farmer’s market. [...]

Tweet So August 28, 2010 is closing in fast. It’s time for the local challenge to start. I’m a little nervous – I cannot lie. I don’t know if it’s something I can do 100% or not.  It is a celebration of local healthy choices that you make by eating food that is produced no [...]

TweetSeattle recently passed groundbreaking legislation to encourage more urban farming within city limits. I love Seattle so much already, can’t you tell, but I love them even more after reading about this.  This fantastic new law will allow urban farming to expand exponentially in the Emerald city. One of my favorite parts of this new [...]

TweetMy daughter just started a two day a week preschool program, mainly so I can be sure she is getting some fun away from mom play time – but she has been really freaked out about the food. Not let’s say, A) I have a load of allergies and even at four she senses that [...]

TweetPBS Now is doing a feature being called, “Fixing The Future” and one of the cities featured will be Bellingham, WA. Every time I look at pictures of Bellingham it just calls me to come home. If it were a little closer to Seattle – that would be where I would live for sure!!! When [...]