Today I am transplanting my tomatoes out into the garden beds I prepared on Tuesday.  Tomatoes are packed full of nutrients.  The red color of the fruits tells me what kind of phytonutrients they contain.  I’ll summarize the nutrients associated with each color of the plant rainbow below:  Red Fruits like Pomegranate and Vegetables such

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Today I have been getting my exercise by preparing garden beds for planting corn, beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplant and more.  It has been a perfect spring afternoon- sunny, warm and breezy with white puffy clouds decorating the blue sky.  I am dreaming of harvesting summer vegetables of all the colors of the rainbow while

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I am spending a lot of time tilling my garden soil and planting seeds and starts. It is great exercise and my body is also being strengthened by the high nutritional value of the fresh-picked osaka, kale and chard I am harvesting to eat right now. As a naturopathic doctor, I recommend tending a garden

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Today, I return to the theme of spring cleansing, something that was once part of our seasonal rhythm. In the springtime, traditional peoples naturally did a spring cleanse by eating the newly sprouting edible greens. Not only were they a welcome culinary addition to a winter of eating preserved food and meat, but the bitter

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