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Iced Green-Ginger-Mint Tea

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.15.2012 | Home

Read More: Maria Rodale, Romance Novel, Ginger Green Tea Recipe, Lady Jane's Salon, Bookstores, Green Mint Tea, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Iced Tea Recipe, Maya Rodale, Sun Tea Recipe, Home News

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure 'Tis the season for cold refreshing beverages and I just cannot...

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7 Ways to Care for Summer Chickens

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.14.2012 | Green

by guest blogger Jean Nick, author and sustainability expert If you bought chicks in the spring they are about half grown by now, and they're big eno...

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Summer Wish List: 10 Things I Want to Do

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.13.2012 | GPS for the Soul

Read More: Maria Rodale, Xponential Music Festival, Staycation, Music Festivals, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Summer, Summer Vacation, GPS for the Soul News

OK, so Memorial Day has passed (unofficial first day of summer), kids are done with school (second unofficial first day of summer) and it's almost off...

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Total Recall

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.12.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Maria Rodale, Pesticides, Coach Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute, Weed Killers, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Glyphosate, 2 4-D, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood, Executive Director of the Rodale Institute. Just this week, Evenflo recalled 35,000 convertible highchairs....

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The Favored Daughter and Why Women Will Save Afghanistan

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.11.2012 | Women

I don't usually like to read books like The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future, by Fawzia Koofi. I'm not one who ...

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9 Rules Every Woman Should Break

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.08.2012 | Women

Read More: Maria Rodale, Romance Novel, Breaking Rules, Rules, Romance, Lady Jane's Salon, Bookstores, It's My Pleasure, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Maya Rodale, Women News

Excerpted from It's My Pleasure, a book by Maria and Maya Rodale Women should be seen and not heard. John Adams once laughed at his wife Abigail imp...

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Where Do Strawberries Come From?

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.06.2012 | Healthy Living

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who's been helping me in the garden. He grew up in the Bronx and, let's just say, I'm starting from sc...

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Organic Farming in a NYC Public School

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.05.2012 | Home

Read More: Maria Rodale, The Earth School, Alberto Gonzalez, Food Education, Public School 364, PS 364, Local Food, NYC Public School, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Gustorganics, Organic Food, Organic Valley, Home News

by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics Hatching chicks from eggs, growing kale, and making homemade vanilla ice cream wi...

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Shopping with a Conscience: Treasure and Bond

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.04.2012 | Style

Read More: Treasure and Bond, Maria Rodale, Organic Clothing, Charity, Shopping, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Style News

I have a hard time shopping for clothes. Between being a little too curvy to fit into a lot of popular brands, too picky to want to wear most trendy t...

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The Cleaning Games

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.01.2012 | Healthy Living

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure The cleaning games needn't be an at-home version of The Hunger ...

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Point Phillips Perennials: Selling Hope

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.30.2012 | Green

Yes, yes, I know I raved about Terrain a few weeks ago. But there is a different sort of nursery that I love even more. It's the kind of nursery that'...

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5 Exercises for a Blissful Heart

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.29.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, William Horden, Meditation, William Douglas Horden, The Toltec I Ching, Mind Exercises, I Ching, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger William Douglas Horden, author and spiritual teacher Fear-based thoughts are part of our DNA passed down through the generations--ou...

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Hysteria

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.25.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Maria Rodale, Romance Novel, Invention of the Vibrator, Vibrator, Romance, Lady Jane's Salon, Bookstores, Hysteria, In Good Hands, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Movie, Maya Rodale, Video, Entertainment News

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure The movie Hysteria is an absolute gem. It's about the invention...

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Eat Local App: Fresh Foods at Your Fingertips

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.24.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Nrdc, Local Food, Wendy Gordon, Eat Local App, Green Guide, Natural Resource Defense Council, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Onearth, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Wendy Gordon, pioneer in the green consumer movement Asparagus, radishes, and spinach are trending this week in my neck of the wood...

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10 Ways to Eat a Tortilla

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

Read More: Maria Rodale, Tortilla Recipe, Tortilla, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Breakfast Recipe, Recipe, Dinner, Lunch, Taste News

Tortillas are very handy to have around, whether it's breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert, whether you are alone or feeding a family. And the whole g...

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Foraging for Ramps: 5 Rules Everyone Should Know

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.22.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Foraging for Ramps, Organic Seeds, Wild Ramps, Wild Leeks, Tim Mountz, Ramps, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Happy Cat Farm, Foraging, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Tim Mountz of Happy Cat Farm This time of the year if I am not in the fields planting, I am out in the woods. I do a lot of trail-r...

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How to Make Organic Food Shopping Fun for Kids (and Parents!)

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.21.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Kids, Maria Rodale, USDA Organic Label, Food Shopping With Kids, Maria Rodale's Blog, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Organic Food, Healthy Living News

So, as many of you already know, I have three kids who are of widely separated ages. When my first child was born 30 years ago, there were no organic ...

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5 Things I Learned at Summer Camp

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.18.2012 | Healthy Living

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by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure Summer camp was one of the best, most formative experiences of...

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The Future of Agriculture: Triple-Bottom-Line Beauty

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.17.2012 | Business

Read More: Maria Rodale, Alberto Gonzalez, Croop Cooperative, Mike Bedessem, Local Food, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, George Siemon, Gustorganics, Organic Food, Organic Valley, Business News

by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics Several weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend Organic Valley's annual meeting...

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How to Pick Up The Pieces Of Your Life

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.16.2012 | Healthy Living

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Every so often, whether it's after a long hard spate of work, finishing a big project, ending a relationship or recovering from a crisis (big or small...

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Start Your Own Modern Homestead

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.15.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Farming, Canning, Robyn Jasko, Preserving, Local Food, Homesweet Homegrown, Gardening, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Homestead, Grow Your Own Food, Modern Homestead, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Robyn Jasko, cofounder of Grow Indie With the rise in food costs, pesticides, and GMOs there's never been a better or more important...

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Italian Wedding Soup, NOT from a Can

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

My kids love Italian wedding soup. Not just because they are half-italian, but also simply because it's yummy. But the smell of that soup from a can, or even from the giant vat at the supermarket, smells like bad vitamins to me.

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50 Shades of Politics

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.11.2012 | Women

Read More: Maria Rodale, Politics, 50 Shades of Grey, Romance Novel, War on Women, Romance, Lady Jane's Salon, Bookstores, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Maya Rodale, Women News

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure While our government schemes to limit women's access to contrac...

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Nine Natural Ways to Love Your Skin

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.10.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Skin Health, Natural Skin Health, Chinese Medicine, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Natural Skin Care, Dr. Eliaz, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc, integrative medicine pioneer, researcher, clinical practitioner, author, and lecturer Your skin is vulnera...

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Do You Believe in Chakras?

Maria Rodale | Posted 07.09.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Energy Medicine, Ambika Wauters, Wheels of Life, The Book of Chakras, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Chakras, Anodea Judith, Healthy Living News

I'd heard about chakras way back when I was a teenager, and associated them with "New Age" woo-woo nonsense, or perhaps a reason to collect multicolor...

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