Guest post by Debbie Steinberg Kuntz, founder & editor of Odyssey Outdoors. If you want to know where your food comes from, there's no better way than to grow it yourself! That's just what we did with a group of families last weekend in the outdoor family group we formed about a year ago. We followed these 10 easy steps. 1. Gather supplies. We started with newspaper, some beautiful organic seeds that would grow in early spring in our area, organic potting soil, … [Read more...]
Best of 2011 on NatureMoms
Many bloggers are listing their most popular posts of the previous year and I probably would not have followed suit but a reader asked me to, so here I go. In terms of traffic here are the most popular posts of the past year: 10 New Ways to Cook Quinoa - Over 20,000 people have visited this post and I didn't write it until late summer. Wow! I hope it has provided Quinoa cooking ideas for lots of people. Are You Eating the 30 Healthiest Foods? - I listed the healthiest foods selected by a … [Read more...]
Creating a Real Foods Kitchen
I got a great email question from a reader this week and decided to answer it on the blog. I think more and more people are wanting to transition from the Standard American Diet and easily available processed food to real, healthy, homemade goodness. The issue of course is that we find ourselves unprepared to cook real food because we are so used to heat and serve style meals. When we want to cook and bake from scratch we need the right tools so that we can stick with his new lifestyle and not … [Read more...]
Tips on Avoiding Food Waste
Americans are notorious for wasting food. While over 1 billion people on our planet do not have enough to eat per day Americans throw away approximately 1,400 calories of food per person per day. Put another way, America throws out 40% of the food that it produces. Not only is this fact about waste disturbing in relation to those around the globe who are starving to death, but when you consider the volatility of the economy and how expensive food is becoming at the grocery store you would … [Read more...]
Six Benefits of Eating Locally Grown Foods
It is so easy to just walk into a grocery store and fill your cart with foods that look delicious. Today’s grocery stores even have ‘organic’ and ‘natural’ foods for you to choose from. For many the label makes it easy for them to feel that they are getting the best foods available, while still maintaining the convenience of purchasing all their food in one place. But just because you can purchase all of your foods in one place does not necessarily mean that you should, and it is a fact … [Read more...]
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