January 30th, 2012 | Additives, Food Security, Our Food, almonds, California, FDA, feature, GAPS, grain-free, health, nuts, organic, pesticide, raw, SCD
All the good stuff is under attack. Being on the GAPS diet we eat a lot of almonds, in fact I just finished making almond-cashew and honey cookies tonight. If anyone has a good source of almonds please let me know!
By Michael Doyle
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has again upheld U.S. Agriculture Department rules requiring treatment of raw almonds, in the latest blow to organic farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The mandatory pasteurization or chemical treatments protect consumers from salmonella. The requirement to apply them is also well within the Agriculture Department’s power, a federal judge ruled this week.
October 25th, 2011
Milk is synonymous with Punjab (the land of five rivers) and all milk products. Butter is an important cooking medium apart from being consumed raw along with the food. wikipedia
The Sikhs have a special relationship with milk. It is sacred. They have special ways they culture and prepare thi ...
October 14th, 2011
I'm compiling this post this from various emails we've received today. The images are by Heather Passmore and are posted so you can use them however you think best--print them out to hand out at #occupyvancouver or post them as your profile photo on facebook, use them on your blog, email them to fri ...
June 30th, 2011
We had a most delicious dinner after my Saturday trip to Trout Lake Farmer's market last weekend. One of my favorite vendors, although I don't know the name, had huge freshly harvested wild morels. Of course I bought some. After reading the book Chantrelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares earlier this yea ...
February 7th, 2011
Well I've been feeling a bit bad about not posting many recipes lately, so I just wanted to share this one. Recently we've started adding juices to our kefir--yum! Very easy fresh and full of friendly enzymes, probiotics and vitamins.
3 apples
3 medium carrots
1-2 inch piece of ginger
1 c of ...
January 31st, 2011
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The grassroots Real Milk movement was begun years ago, by Sally Fallon Morell in the US. Here in Canada, Michael Schmidt gave the movement an opportunity wh ...
January 21st, 2011
I have a couple friends that are doing detox or cleansing treatments after the holidays, to set their bodies on a healthy course for the next year, and perhaps lose some weight gained through all the holiday feasting. I hadn't given much thought to doing one myself, since I feel I generally keep a h ...
January 3rd, 2011
But if I won a continuous brew system that would do too....
Not so long ago I stumbled across an amazing project -- clothing made from kombucha leather! What else but kombucha can be a delicious healing beverage and a jacket all at once? I guess how they do it is by fermenting the kombucha in lar ...
November 15th, 2010
This is a very simple technique that makes an extra tasty batch of kombucha. By adding fruit juice after the ten day fermentation period you get a fizzier drink, which means there is more alcohol. This drink is very much like a grape soda, but good for you!
I have been making kombucha lately with ...
November 12th, 2010
"The centralisation of our food system is currently the greatest danger to the food security of our nation."
Since I am on the topic of raw milk this week I have to post this very important statement from Michael Schmidt. It was presented at a news conference on the steps of the Alberta Legislatu ...
