Author: Lindsey

I am a holistic nutritionist/conscious eating coach and birth doula, writer, and creativity maven (photographer, cook, crochet/macrame artist, poet, short story writer), gardener, and yogi. I am the mama of three beautiful furbabies, and live in Arizona.

Holiday gifts that keeps on giving

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This holiday season, 2012, Santa was incredibly accurate in his gifts in my house: The tomato can is a much more palatable counter-top food compost container (and cute, to boot!), a molcajete (or a volcanic-rock mortar and pestle, common in Mexico and S. America) for making salsas and other flours, etc., a food scale (okay, [...]

A personal look back at the year that was 2012

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As I tentatively begin to step into the pristine landscape of 2013 and leave my footsteps behind me, it seems inevitable that I would look back at the past 12 months and contemplate the year that was 2012. What a whirlwind year it was, after pulling myself out of a personal year-long hell in 2011. [...]

Guest blog: Water quality and your food safety

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Food Safety Concerns Drive Research By Susanna Eden and Katharine Mitchell, WRRC Graduate Outreach Assistant Fungicide in orange juice, Arsenic in apple juice, Listeria in cantaloupe--these are the latest “food safety issues you care about” listed at foodandwaterwatch.org. But how important are these issues? The public can see Food and Drug Administration reports on all three by [...]

Guest column: The Dodd-Frank Net Might Ensnare the Family Meal

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By Don CourseyAmeritech Professor of Public Policy StudiesHarris School of the University of ChicagoFederal regulators recently roiled America's farmers with the release of new rules for financial instruments. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the agencies charged with implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, officially announced the new requirements and said they would [...]