Meal Plan March 1, 2010

Is it really March?  Does that mean the snow might melt off sometime??  There are only twenty days until spring and I am itching for the seasons to change.

Monday – Loaded baked sweet potatoes

Tuesday – dinner at Columbus Home & Garden Show or nachos at home

Wednesday – spaghetti and meatballs (bison!  from the Columbus Winter Farmer’s [...]

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Kids Cook Black Bean Salsa and Smashed Beans

This week we cooked two black bean dishes at the Kids Cook class.  Beans of all kinds are high in fiber and protein.  The following two recipes are easy for kids to make and enjoy!

not the most attractive pictures but I decided to show what they really look like after help from kids

Black Bean Salsa

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Tips for Gardening from the OEFFA conference

I recently spoke at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association (OEFFA) on the topic of Urban Gardening.  Approximately fifty attendees discussed their urban gardening challenges and together we brainstormed solutions.

I transformed my handout for the workshop into a guest post for Kimberly Hartke, writer of Hartke is Online and publicist for the Weston A. Price [...]

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Change Your Life This Summer: Host an Exchange Student

When I was twelve, my family hosted a Japanese girl named Megumi for one month during the summer through the Ohio 4-H International Program.  Hosting challenged us all to communicate differently, show off our community, and open our hearts to new relationships.  We learned so much about ourselves and had so much fun that the next [...]

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Joel Salatin: Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

“We live in an amazing country where it’s perfectly legal to feed your kids twinkies, hoho cakes, and mountain dew, but raw milk, that’s dangerous.”  So began Joel Salatin’s Saturday keynote address to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association annual conference on February 13, 2010.  I attended the talk.  The writing below is my best [...]

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