From the category archives:

Local Food Movement

We Deserve to Know: An Acupuncturist’s Persepective on GM Foods

May 9, 2012

I usually don’t send out even quasi-political emails to my patients, because I feel in many cases it’s not appropriate.  However, the situation that is before us plays such a huge role in the issue of our health and our children’s health forever into the future that I couldn’t NOT alert you all to this, [...]

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The Long Awaited GREENS Experiment…DO Try this at Home, Folks!

June 8, 2011

Is this another shameless plug to try to get you to eat more greens? You betcha! Many of you know I’ve been trying the whole “local eating” this past year.  While it is turning into a huge international movement born out of the need to eat more sustainably, it fits perfectly in with ancient Chinese [...]

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When Eating Beef and Eggs can Help Balance your Liver

May 4, 2011

 Because according to Chinese medicine we are still in the season related to the liver (Wood), I am continuing to focus my “Wisdom”s on various things you can do to help keep your liver balanced.  Don’t worry…soon enough we’ll be in the season related to Fire, and you’ll get to hear some completely new [...]

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Chinese Medicine Knows that Eating Seasonal is the Most Balanced Way: CSA Options

April 20, 2011

It’s that time of year again…time to start thinking about which CSA you’re going to sign up with this year.  As promised, I’m sending out a list this week of our local CSAs. What?!  You’re weren’t PLANNING on doing a CSA?  Well let’s see if I can change your mind! For those of you who [...]

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Buying Grassfed Beef Locally through Sunrise Ranch

January 8, 2011

Why am I writing an article about beef, when everyone knows we “should be eating way less beef”? Because the reality is, we eat beef.  Lots of it. And the beef that most of us are eating is a major part of why it’s such a problem. Because beef is such a staple of our [...]

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Enjoying the Local Summer Harvest

July 21, 2010

This week, I came home from picking up my CSA share with an overflowing bag of veggies.  Chard, 3 kinds of zucchini, big beets and baby beets along with their greens, English snap peas, 2 heads of romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, spring mix, green onions, and garlic scapes poured out; making it undeniably clear that [...]

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It’s Springtime and Time to Purchase your CSA share!

March 15, 2010

It’s time to figure out from which local farm you’ll be getting your CSA share this year! In fact, I feel so strongly about the benefits of this program that I am offering a huge savings opportunity to those who sign up for a share this month! What is CSA and why am I so sure that you’d like to participate in this program? CSA stands for “Community Supported Agriculture” and for the past 15 years has been sweeping across the nation.

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