Coconut is a treat for my little family, something we use judiciously and tenderly. While, 90% of the foods my family consumes arrive from farms and ranches near to home, I Read More →
10 Fermented Foods That Kids Love
March 21, 2013 | by | 19 Comments
One of the questions that readers ask me most frequently is, "How do I get my kids to eat fermented foods?" It arrives over email, over twitter, on facebook, and on comments Read More →
Beautiful Babies Review: How Whole Foods Nourish a Growing Child
February 25, 2013 | by | 6 Comments
Occasionally, there comes information that, when you read it, you say to yourself, "If I had known then what I know now." As I flipped through the pages of Beautiful Babies, a Read More →
Love and joy come to you, and to your wassail too!
December 17, 2012 | by | 24 Comments
I love a traditional wassail, and I make it three times a year – on the first day of snow, on the longest night of the year and on New Year’s Eve. And today marks the Read More →
Real Food on the Road (A Survival Guide)
October 8, 2012 | by | 34 Comments
This weekend, as I stared beyond the dashboard and toward the flat, open road, I realized that my family has spent 113 days traveling this year. Strung together, that's a little Read More →
How We Celebrate Autumn (and a Recipe for Cider-braised Cabbage and Apples)
September 24, 2012 | by | 32 Comments
Each autumn, my tiny mountain community celebrates the transition from summer to winter with abandon. Perhaps here at the very end of the road where our little town sits nestled Read More →
Why I Support the Farm-to-consumer Legal Defense Fund Even Though I’m Not a Farmer
August 23, 2012 | by | 20 Comments
As part of our work in farmers markets and sustainable food, my husband and I visit our regional farms regularly, and what strikes me more than anything else is not the heritage Read More →
11 Real Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making
August 17, 2012 | by | 94 Comments
Wondering how to feed your family better while also saving money at the grocery store? Skip the store and start making your favorite pantry basics from scratch. Here's 11 real Read More →
How do you transform a picky eater?
July 25, 2012 | by | 44 Comments
How do you transform a picky eater? First, you have to change their mindset. The mindset has to become I'm capable of learning to like new foods, instead of I'm a picky eater. Read More →
The Cheater’s Guide to Real Food (or the advice I gave my grandmother)
June 27, 2012 | by | 56 Comments
When I tell you to eat the foods your grandmother or great-grandmother would have made, I'm not talking about my grandmother (see her above? isn't she lovely! Good genes, yes? Read More →
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