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Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Pesticides Out!

May 10th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin ItWhat a treat! It’s Laura of Heavenly Homemakers popping over for a chat today, sharing her story about organic gardening, a subject she knows plenty about! See all the past topics and hostesses here. My Organic Story Seven years ago, I didn’t know. I didn’t think about the earth. I didn’t think about the [...]

GIVEAWAY: Organic Gardening eBook, Potting Soil, and Fertilizer

May 10th, 2010 · 191 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin ItGetting started gardening can be a daunting task, at least for perfectionists like me who think they need to have everything planned out and figured out before they start. If you’ve never gardened, or if you’ve been gardening with chemicals and would like to make the switch to more natural methods, you are in [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the CAFOs Out

May 3rd, 2010 · 85 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin ItPlease welcome Kelly the Kitchen Kop today, whose peppy self I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in real life. She dishes out on the truth of nourishing foods and busts “politically correct” nutrition, and today she’s our feature in the Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out! Carnival. See all the topics here. The reasoning [...]

Monday Mission: Got Meat? (Where does your meat come from?)

May 3rd, 2010 · 37 Comments · Monday Missions

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn about where your meat comes from. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps Perhaps you already know everything about your meat. Perhaps you’ve watched Food, Inc. and seek out local, grassfed or pastured, organic meats. Your job, then, is to find the balance. Keep [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Food Additives Out!

April 27th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Science of Nutrition

Pin ItI’m very happy to feature Lenetta of Nettacow today with her in-depth research on food additives, a topic so vast and wide it could have a 10-week carnival all to itself! She’s one of my favorite readers and really knows how to get around the blogosphere (check out her weekly Link Roundup, appropriately tagged [...]

Monday Mission: Find Those MSGs

April 26th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Monday Missions

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to seek and destroy MSG (monosodium glutamate) in all its forms. You’ll have to do some covert ops to determine MSG’s location. You may start in a Chinese restaurant, but don’t get too comfortable. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Leap of Faith This week we’re talking [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Parabens Out

April 20th, 2010 · 20 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin It Although not necessarily part of your kitchen routine, personal products are “consumed” in a way by your skin, so they must be taken into account when trying to make positive nutritional changes (and be good to the Earth). Today Micaela from Mindful Momma will walk you through one set of dangers and share [...]