Everyone is talking about it… How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

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When my little J was just starting to eat solid foods I felt like I didn’t have the time or energy to make my own baby food. I bought Beech Nut Pureed Veggies (Gerber had too many additives) and rice cereal and we mashed bananas. Then M arrived and I had learned to puree veggies and it was so much simpler than I expected. Now, E is here and in spite of the fact that there are two others to

Need a great place to stop for ice cream, play and hang out with animals: Kilby Creamery. One of two places in Maryland that starts and completes the entire ice cream making process on site. They have a nice play set for the kids and animals for petting. Today, was a glorious day to be outside and just enjoy all that spring is trying to bring us! Menu for local dinner: This afternoon’s meal was local sage pork sausage from

We hit the Inner Harbor tonight for dinner with the kids and parents. It was late and we wondered into Pizzazz Tuscan Grille. By a stroke of luck we found that they support local, free range and other sustainable cooking practices. Wahoo! The food was yummy and the staff was attentive especially to our three-ring circus of screaming kiddos.

Reduce, reuse and recycle. For a long time I was only focusing on the ‘recycle’ part but this earth love triangle doesn’t work without the first two. It isn’t enough to just recycle if you are not purchasing recycled products, first reducing your trash output and then reusing as much as possible before sending your trash to finally be put back into the system by recycling. My family has been able to reduce our waste to about 1 white trash

Barbara Kingsolver in her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.), mentions that March is the hungry month. I had never thought that much about food before. It is really a recent thing that we don’t worry about having enough of a harvest to last through the winter. Goodness, many people these days hardly know that food comes from the earth. It isn’t their fault, it is hard to imagine a tasty snack cake was ever anything

Today was a shopping day. Buying local means that you do not get all your food in one place. I have this dream of opening a store, well maybe not a store, just a four walled space where farmers could bring their produce year round here locally. Really all my dreams are self serving, I just don’t want to have to drive all over the county. But on the other hand, there are benefits to going directly to the farm.

This fall, I just happened to catch the show Ellen on tv and she just happened to have the author Jonathan Safran Foer of the book Eating Animals there as her guest. First of all, the fact that I had the tv on AT ALL in the afternoon was a ‘pigs fly’ kind of moment and then to have this author on, too, so unlikely. Sometimes I just know that information is being placed in front of me at the

Changing the world one bite at a time. I was going to use that as my catch phrase. But, I googled it and lo and behold a gazillion other people already thought of it. But, thankfully, they were all thinking what I was thinking. You’ll see. I love food. I love to eat food. I love to cook food. I love that food can be a political statement, a religious statement and a fashion statement. It is a basic requirement