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From the Farm to You

Dear Friends, We got our second box of produce today from our CSA, Helsing Farms. We get one box of fresh picked produce every Tuesday from now until the season ends in October. It is still pretty ...

Peace Corps Goes To Paradise

Dear Friends, This month, the UW Alumni membership pamphlet is offering the opportunity of a lifetime to Take That Trip You’ve Always Wanted! I glanced at one of the choices—Fly by Nomads private j...

Food as Medicine

Dear Friends, I have a great treat for you this week: I would like to (and I am using Dohrea’s word) illuminate just a little the work my wife Dohrea has been engaged in the last few years, and sha...

Pollution of Transnationals

Dear Friends, Is this not an absolutely precious picture? Don’t you love it? Nothing nurtures us and protects us like the love of our mother. We stand ready to defend her at all costs. But what abo...

Organic Garlic Part 3

Dear Friends, It came to my attention that after over a year of publishing our weekly newsletter, it needs a name! So this Memorial Day Weekend of 2010 we christen it—Forward Thinking. Our world to...

Organic Garlic Part 2

Dear Friends, Do all people have the right of access to the best healthcare? Do all people have the right to obtain healthy food? Do we consider these issues important enough to become personally i...

Garlic: a Superior Antimicrobial

Dear Friends, Over the next couple of weeks we will be looking at garlic as a medicinal food and why we have chosen it for our Therapeutic Foods line. It is fascinating to see how smart nature is—s...

The Eyes of a Child

Dear Friends, The magic of nature is all around us. We need to develop the eyes of a child again so that we can tune in again and bask in her glory. Planting the garden this weekend (on Mother’s Da...

Gardening Tips from the Masters

Dear Friends, It’s Spring full bloom and friendship is in the air as you can see in our photo here. But take a very close look—what is different about this photo? It is vegetable garden planting ti...

Forward Thinking Review

Dear Friends, This week I want to take a deep breath and reflect with you on where we have been over the last twenty months. The newsletters covered many topics, exciting but also alarming. There i...