The power of ONE

Dump the chemical laden, sugared, salted, fat filled, fake colored, processed and fast food junk as much as possible, and gradually move toward whole, unprocessed, seasonal, organically grown or raised as often as doable. Spend your organic dollars on animal products, if you eat them.

How Healthy is Your Ice Cream?

It’s summer and it’s ice cream time! So what’s the first thing you think of? Well after iced tea or a cold beer… ice cream! Have you thought about what’s IN your ice cream?

Welcome to Blossom’s B and B – Breakfast AND Bed!

So what do you think B&B stands for? “Bed and Breakfast” or “Breakfast and Bed?” If you’re visiting Blossom’s B&B in Missoula Montana, you’ll find the accommodations are excellent – it’s a restored 1910 Craftsman-style house, after all – but it’s Blossom and her food that make it truly special.

Product Profile: Fresh Strawberries

Every spring we’re seduced into buying one – just one – box of strawberries at the market. They always look so beautiful: large berries, bright red, the leaves still attached and fresh… Open the plastic clam shell that displays those berries in all their voluptuousness; like Botticelli’s Venus on the seashell. Hold that little beauty in your palm – OK, stop salivating! Make that first slice right through the center…

Seattle’s First Strawberry Farmers

Strawberries have been grown in Puget Sound since the early 20th century, primarily in Bellevue (directly across Lake Washington from central Seattle) and on Bainbridge Island, located in Puget Sound. It was Japanese-American immigrants that pioneered the first strawberry farms.

Voices From the Farm: A Winter to Remember and A Challenging Summer

What a winter that was! Five days after Sean’s birth, when we were about to be released from the hospital, we’d had another blizzard. This time, we were “snowed out!” We had to delay our departure until Jerry could get the Highway Department’s big snow blower out to open our driveway. It was drifted in and packed so hard that even the big grader and plow could not get through.

Getting Rid of Those Plastic Bottles

Our healthy living correspondent, Ina Denburg, gave us plenty of good reasons to watch out for all the “Liquid Liars” on the grocery shelves. But what she didn’t talk about is how much of a problem all those plastic bottles are.