edible weeds
I blogged a few days ago about how when I’m weeding, I bring the dandelion and morning glory in and throw them in my fridge or blender.I don’t love the weedy taste of morning glory, so I use it in minimal amounts.Did you know the ENTIRE dandelion plant is edible?Roots, flowers, anything.And wild plants have [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →GSG.com looking for a personal assistant, and a bookkeeper
If you know someone in Utah County who could help me, GSG.com needs a personal assistant, so please have anyone (I’m thinking stay-home mom) email me who could work from home a couple hours a day for about $10/hr., and occasionally help me with videos or doing demos/classes. I’d like someone web savvy who can [...]
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David Is To Be Returned To Italy
David Is To Be Returned To Italy: After a two year loan to the United States, Michelangelo’s David is being returned to Italy. His Proud Sponsors were:
14 Comments • Continue Reading →Does eating right cause irregular periods?
I just read a highly controversial, really interesting article on Debbie Took’s raw food blog, about the possibility that when a woman eats a vegan, high-raw (mostly raw) diet, she may have irregular periods, very light and infrequent. Evidence is given and a number of professionals are quoted, that indigenous women don’t menstruate like [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Polka Dot Box registration ending
Hi everyone, Green Polka Dot Box registration is ending May 31! Here’s the link to sign up (no need to spend any money, and this just holds your spot): www.budurl.com/gpdb If you didn’t get to participate in the teleseminar about GPDB, it’s here in the video section on the site (scroll down towards [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →whole foods for every living thing?
This is a text messaging string between me and my 15-year old son, Kincade, yesterday, while he was at school: Cade: Mom! Buy some goldfish food! Me: Cade, do NOT bring goldfish home. Cade: Too late. I already have it. Later that afternoon, I walked into the kitchen to find Kincade [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →Weedy Smoothie
When you’re weeding in your yard or garden, are you keeping the edible ones and tossing them in your smoothie? My GS today is made 100% from volunteer greens: volunteer chard and spinach, greens regrown on beets I overwintered from last year, and . . . MORNING GLORY and DANDELION. If you don’t know what [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Green Smoothie Testimonials, part 14
I’ve been drinking a quart of green smoothies daily for about a year now, with a few exceptions. When I fail to drink them for a few days (too busy, need to go to the store, etc.), I find that the first sip of the next smoothie is so welcome, so delicious, so satisfying. My [...]
1 Comment • Continue Reading →should chemotherapy be mandatory for children with cancer?
Five years ago, I wrote editorials that appeared in Utah papers about my reaction when Parker Jensen, diagnosed by Primary Children’s Hospital with “probably Ewing’s sarcoma” (a rare soft tissue cancer) was being forced into chemotherapy by the sate of Utah against his parents’ objections. The incestuous group of doctors, social workers, guardians ad [...]
15 Comments • Continue Reading →are you gardening yet?
I hope you’re planting a garden, since it’s May 14 and prime planting season! I am enjoying the sunshine and getting my hands in the dirt (that’s “grounding” that gives you lots of antioxidants, by the way). This is my first year doing it solo, though, so it’s lots more work, turning all [...]
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