Over the last few weeks I have found myself using the phrase – “I’m in the Weeds” – quite often while juggling the transition with a new office assistant at Seeds, planning the next steps for our Maryland naturopathic licensure efforts, and on top of that a wedding!  All very exciting tugs and pulls on […]

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Zucchini as a superfood? Who would have thought. This unglamorous vegetable is often unappreciated. The plants are so amazingly productive that most gardeners grow more than they can eat. The classic joke goes: people in the country usually don’t lock their car doors except in the summertime. Why? So that their neighbors can’t put zucchini’s

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I spent a couple hours today harvesting organic blueberries at the local U-pick patch. Is there an organic blueberry farm near you? Now is the time to harvest a year’s supply of blueberries and freeze them. Freezing actually makes them more nutritious as the cell walls break and more of the heart and blood vessel

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This summer, I have been spending most of my non-working hours outdoors gardening, landscaping and riding my bike down to the river to swim. We have been out on the deck in the evenings grilling lots of vegetables harvested fresh from the garden and are feeling healthier every day. After a long, cold and wet

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Tuesday was the first day of fall. As summer draws to a close, my garden harvest is at its peak. I am harvesting bushels of tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, eggplant and giving thanks for the food as well as the other health benefits I receive from tending my garden. Saturday is the first annual Illinois

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