Growers and Grocers

These days many of us are trying to go green in many areas of our lives.  Food Network has jumped in and provided a helpful list of ways you can do this without making huge changes all at once.  Here are some highlights:
Shop locally.  This will give you fresher produce and you’ll be supporting family […]

As the Organic Chef, organic beef farmer, nutritionist and organic consultant, one of the comments that I hear most often is that organics are too expensive. How can anyone afford to feed their family organically? My response is always “You’re not thinking pragmatically”.
There is a solution - the 80% solution. There are ways to feed […]

Last Friday night I found myself literally stuck in the middle of one of those conversations most people never want to be stuck in the middle of.
While waiting for a concert to begin, I introduced two of my friends, one who has spent time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - my husband’s homeplace and one of […]

Did you know that most of the birdseed you find at the grocery and hardware store are covered in chemicals or traces of pesticides? Treat your winged friends right with all-natural birdseed.
Cole’s Wild Bird Feed
Wild Wings
Or if you’d rather make it yourself, The Organic Report suggests the following:
Making your own organic bird feed is […]

I’ve been telling people grass is good for years. As The Organic Chef and an organic grass fed beef farmer, it’s only natural that I’ve heard just about everything a person could tell me about grass fed beef.Here I’ve chosen three “myths” about grass fed beef to debunk:
1) All beef is grass-fed
2) Grass-fed beef is […]

Anyone who has watched Al Gore’s documentary film An Inconvenient Truth knows that it can seem incredibly disempowering to witness the massive destruction that global warming is inflicting upon the Earth. And the whole problem seems overwhelming when confronted with said inconvenient truths, but Mr. Gore gave us some actionable advice at the end of the […]

Let’s say that your five-year-old is deep in the throes of a chest cold, coughing her poor little head off in the middle of the night (when most of these rib-cracking, neighbor-waking hacking fits seem to occur). Miraculously, your husband appears to be sleeping through the crisis (”appears” being the operative word). And as much as […]

Who knew that bringing your owns bags to the grocery would help the environment and your wallet? After a recent visit to my local Nob Hill, I was very excited to see money refunded for every bag I used!

Now, granted, it may only be $0.05 (per bag)…but, hey, free money is free money!
Check to see […]

While the saying it’s not easy being “green” still holds true in some areas, it is becoming easier to be green than ever before. That’s because of an increasing education of the general public regarding the environment and the growing willingness of local governments to take on greater ecological responsibility.
Whether you live in one of […]

I’m pretty new to this whole…”green living”…thing. I’ve lived most of my life in a very sheltered little bubble where Abbey did what Abbey wanted to do. But, I guess I’ve grown up recently, because now I suddenly see the world in a while new light.
As I’ve begun my own personal journey into making our […]