7 small ways to start growing your own food, improving your nutrition, and lowering your grocery costs – even if you’re short on time, space, or confidence.
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Supermarket Strategy #6 – Wise Use of Whole Foods
Whole foods require more planning and organization than processed convenience foods, but the pay-off is worth it. The benefits include: better nutrition, a feeling of empowerment and reconnection as you learn to engage with your food closer to its source, and the satisfaction in knowing you’re taking better care of the Earth just by how you eat.
RealFood Turmeric + Golden Milk Recipe
Tips and hints about eating fresh, whole turmeric + our basic recipe for Turmeric Milk, or Golden Milk.
Food – are we facing a Crisis or an Opportunity?
There’s a reason why the words “food crisis” are making headlines, and it might not be the reason you think. Also in this post: three other random, hopeful things.
Happy Meat, Happy Ecosystems, Happy People
What is “happy meat?” Is meat-eating inherently destructive, or can we have “happy ecosystems” along with happy meat? What does meat-eating mean for human health on a more-than physical level? And what about avoiding eating animal products because you care about animals’ welfare?
Home Dairying, Banana Milkshakes, and Spare Egg Whites
This super-short post has some commentary on home-dairying, a tongue-in-cheek recipe for raw-milk banana milkshake, and something easy and useful to do with your egg whites when you only need the yolks. There are also a few links to related resources that I hope you’ll find helpful.
1 Garden Meal per Day: Simple Strategy, Abundant Benefits
The best way to get more effective at growing your own food is to make it super easy to eat something directly from your garden on a daily basis. Here are 5 categories of low-maintenance food plants (or plant parts) you might have been overlooking, and strategies for using them to build more food sovereignty into your life.
Connections in a RealFood Garden
A “RealFood garden” is a garden that’s easy to maintain and meets real, basic, every-day needs for food and medicine. Plants in such a garden are connected to other plants and to the gardener’s kitchen and healthcare needs in mutually beneficial ways.
Herb Pesto (and Mulberry Milkshake)
Pesto can be made with any herb or combination of herbs and even leafy vegetables. When all you see in your garden is edible leafy greens, pesto is a great way to serve up all that nutrition in a form that’s easy and appealing to eat.
2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden
Here are two ideas for preserving leafy greens. The first is a bit of an experiment. The second is a tried and true favorite in my kitchen.