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Can Vitamin C Save Your Skin?
Searching for a way to look young for your age? Hit the produce aisle, suggests new research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Analyzing data from the National Health and Nutrition...
View ArticleBeans, Beans, Good for Your Heart?
Joyce Hendley Recent studies show that adding a small serving of beans can make a difference. The bean song we loved to sing as kids may be silly but it’s true. Eating beans regularly is good for your...
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Inspiration and Recipes from an Irish Garden
For Allen, the “garden” can mean her family’s 400-acre estate, hotel, “cookery school” (as the Irish call it) and rolling green farmland outside of Cork. It can mean the formal rectangles of gardens...
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The Wild Salmon Debate
About 10 years ago my friend Charles Johnson, the Vermont state naturalist, called me with a question about salmon. I was surprised and flattered to have Charles ask me about anything natural, for...
View ArticleFood as Fuel
Four promising bio-fuels from everyday foods. Mention the topic of turning food into fuel (think: corn into ethanol, soybeans into biodiesel) and you’ll likely land in a heated debate. Yes, Americans...
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Greener Pastures: When It Comes to Beef, Is Grass-Fed Better?
Greener Pastures Cresting a steep, rutted dirt road that runs through the hills of Huntington, Vermont, I’m greeted by the sight of vigorously churning wind turbines and a dozen black cows lazily...
View ArticleNew Waves of Grain
Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough How the Lundberg family farm went organic and helped change the rice America eats. Harvest was in full swing when I arrived last fall at the Lundbergs’ rice...
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6 Remedies for Sleep Problems—Do They Work?
Unrelenting insomnia has become a part of my life. Colleagues joke about my 3 a.m. e-mails; my husband groans at my late-night online shopping. (He knows I’ve had a bad stretch when packages pile up at...
View ArticleEarth-friendly Wines
Amy Paturel Biodynamics: good stewardship yields great flavor Related Content Title 1: Read More 6 Biodynamic Wines to TryIn a ceremony on Sonoma Mountain in spring, the Benziger family buries a cow...
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Why You Should Start Your Meal with Soup or Salad
The EatingWell Diet: Tips for a New You Filling up on fiber- and water-rich foods first can help prevent you from overdoing high-calorie fare later. Research out of Penn State shows that eating a...
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Calling All Dieters!
Your cell phone keeps you in touch on-the-go. It could also help you lose weight. Subscribers to Nutrax (nutrax.com) use camera phones to photograph foods they eat and send the pictures to online food...
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Tips for Growing a Kitchen Garden
Your Kitchen Garden The Irish have always grasped the important connection between the garden and the kitchen and often have a nearby potager, or kitchen garden. Translated directly from the French,...
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Inheritance
It was in my Grandma Clara’s farm kitchen, amid a cloud of flour and the heady fragrance of yeast, that I inherited my knowledge of bread making. I can’t use the word learned because that would be an...
View ArticleCultivating New Starts
“I know how it feels to be an immigrant and not have access to land,” says Maria Moreira, who moved to the U.S. from Portugal’s Azores Islands 40 years ago. “People should have land to grow their own...
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Container Gardening with Salad Greens
Greens love cool weather, so take advantage of the spring and fall seasons to grow them. Here are some tips to get you started on growing greens in a container garden:A nitrogen-rich soil feeds and...
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