So unexpected (plus a recipe)

Me? Write a cookbook? Well, after deciding a meal my husband made was too pretty to eat and took out my new studio lights to take pictures - I was hooked. I have awakened a new passion the past few days to design recipes and artistically and visually capture the love I have for food, [...]

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7 ways your garden can save your life

  Gardening is not just for flower lovers, and is moving out of people’s window boxes and into their backyards. In the past few years, food gardening has increasingly become an activity done to facilitate better physical fitness, healthier eating and well-being. And science backs this up. Gardening helps you: To fit exercise into your day Regular [...]

Teaching people to feed themselves

Gardens - while my black thumb has been a major hurdle personally trying to get one up and running, I'm passionate about them. From the schoolyard young to the mature and elderly, it is never too late to share the magic of tending and growing their own garden for food. Why do I feel this [...]

The fresh connection

A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I brought home our first-ever CSA (community supported agriculture) care package from an area organic farm. A CSA is simply an agreement where you pay a local farmer a certain amount for a set period of weeks, for which in return you get a weekly bag of [...]

Streamlined healthy passions on Facebook

I finally just went ahead and did it. About four or five months ago when I first began to blog seriously about my passions, I had likewise fiddled with the idea of starting up a Facebook page to specifically broadcast my posts on holistic health & lifestyle, cooking, gardening, etc. I fiddled with Facebook, figuring [...]