VegSource.com has a vegetarian recipe directory that is most likely the deepest on the Internet. The site looks like it goes back 10 years at least, and was homegrown with a grassroots spirit. The …

For kindness to be more fully realized, it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It also needs to be infused with wisdom, supported by courage, and threaded with balance.
- Sharon Salzberg, the …

Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Cooking, loves to pull recipes out of vintage and out-of-print cookbooks, and put them on her www.101cookbooks.com blog. Sometime she builds off a recipe she finds, such as building …

“Gluten can’t be absorbed through the skin, although this is a common misconception,” says gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Picco of the Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic. Gluten can only cause inflammation when it’s swallowed, he says. Other …

It seems that you can’t open a newspaper, or turn on the TV without being bombarded by warnings about H1N1, or Swine Flu. We try to guard our family’s health all of the time, …

Quinoa is a gift for those of us on gluten-free diets who want a high-fiber breakfast cereal. Quinoa is not a grass, and is closer to beets and spinach than to wheat. Quinoa originated in …

“I’m so busy!” has replaced “Fine, How are you?” as the most common way people respond to the question “How are you?” Everyone bemoans their frantic schedules, their lack of time to relax, or
to …

What is your deepest connection to the natural world around you? Your heart-based connection to the world around you? Your community in the way it is meaningful to you? Map your local area and …

Being a locavore means eating fresh foods grown close to home. It doesn’t get much more local that this meal; the mushrooms and dandelions are from my backyard, and the eggs are from my neighbor …

Native peoples have rubbed their bodies in mud to detox forever. Making yourself a foot bath is pretty much the same idea. Clay naturally exudes negative ions, which draw toxins from your body – …