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Wild Blackberry Honey Jam:

Wild Blackberry picking time whether your planning on just fresh eating, freezing berries for later use or making jams, jellies, pies or ice cream starts here in the month of July. It’s usually hot and can make for some very uncomfortable picking if you go out in the heat of the

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"Nourishing Jams, Jellies, Preserves and more" Blog Hop Details!

BLOG HOP COMING!!

Time to get Jamming!

At the end of August I along with 2 other bloggers Wardeh @ gnowfglins and Diana @ A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa will be hosting the “Nourishing Jams, Jellies, Preserves and more” blog hop.

If your not familiar with a blog hop here is an explanation of how

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Lacto Fermented Beet Kvass:

About 2 years or so ago I gave Beet Kvass a try. Personally I could not stand it at the time. It was way to salty for me and my husband couldn’t stand the taste of it even though he loves beets done up any other way.

This summer I planted 2 long rows of beets

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Women's Natural Health E Course:

Starting today @ Naturally Knocked Up, Donielle’s E Course has gotten underway.

There is still time to sign up. Registration continues through this coming Friday, July 16th.

Infertility now strikes one in six couples, one out of five known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and our children are increasingly suffering

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Two Nourishing E Course Lessons:

Today I am stepping out into a side of blogging I have not entered before. By supporting other bloggers in their endeavors to teach others various aspects of learning how to improve their health by moving away from foods that harm us and do not nourish us. Many of the younger blogging moms have worked

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What is a Healthy Food Pyramid?

……….and just what changes are being made by the
USDA with their FOOD PYRAMID?

Searching the web for A healthy Nutrient Dense Food Pyramid was almost impossible (basically it was non-existent on the web)  to find until I recalled having seen the one put together by
Nourishing Our Children.
Click on over to their site for

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Foolproof "Healthy Homemade Mayonnaise"

Many of you already make your own homemade mayonnaise, others you’ve considered but never have tried. Then there are others that say why bother, just buy it from the store. Then there’s that group that has made it and it turns out only every so often. Mayo is one of those condiments that

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Blogging Friend having contest today - read & enter!!

……….CONTEST IS OVER……….

My Blogging Girlfriend on the West Coast
Robynn’s Ravings is having a contest today.

Not just one contest but 3 separate contests all in one day.

$50.00 gift certificate to Great Harvest Bread,Co.

OR

“Burritos For Two including gourmet burritos, fresh chips with

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Sustainability and Caring for Creation:

Hi all – I’ve got several blog postings in the writing out stages or thought stage and not much time to really give to finishing them up yet. One post in the writing stage is about the ducks we will be raising soon once we get the chicken or rather duck tractor built.

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Getting to know your Local CSA's:

A few weeks ago we were able to attend our local Organic Food Expo sponsored by the Kansas City Food Circle who’s network is the greater Kansas City, Kansas / Missouri Metro area and beyond.
It was our first time to ever attend one of their events. Parking was a premium to find which

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Grinding your own Flours: Nutrimill?

DO YOU OWN THIS MILL?

We recently purchased this mill through
Pleasant Hill Grain
You can read review at this link about the Nutrimill

MY REVIEW ON THE NUTRIMILL and why we are shipping it back.

We did a lot of research on mills and settled on this one because of the

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How to take Fermented Cod Liver Oil and not make faces!

If you recall a while back I did a posting called
“A Nourishing Start to your Day! EGGNOG”
and
I was adding my Cold Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Well after weeks of blending the coconut oil into eggnog ingredients I stopped doing it. I haven’t stopped getting my daily 2 T. of coconut oil.

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FRESH – grassroots movement:

I’m looking forward to this movie coming out on DVD just as Food, Inc. did. Are you?

Here’s the trailer for FRESH and link to their site (see below). Check out to see if it’ showing anywhere in your area. Like FOOD, INC. its not hitting the major movie theaters. I saw

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A Nourishing start to your day! EGGNOG

EGGNOG

For several months now we have been making fresh homemade eggnog daily. Started out with just my husband doing it to gain weight back after having been sick and hospitalized. We have a very wise Dr. who prescribed a daily or more homemade eggnog over anything else to put

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Dr. Weston A. Price - 1936:

Update April 25th, 2010 – I was getting ready to send this link from my blog to a friend that is now following Nourishing Traditions and found the video had been removed by the owner. I went to You Tube and found it again so it’s back up and running for hopefully a

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Today is Kick Off Day!

…………..and no I am not talking about the Super Bowl!

It is ” KICK OFF DAY “ for the

” 28 Day REAL FOOD Challenge ”
to cooking and eating better and to better health.

To read about the Challenge and it’s never to late to start head on

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Pass the Pepperoni!

You haven’t eaten “Pepperoni” until you’ve eaten homemade!

It’s over a week since we had our all day butchering marathon. We’ve had ground pork sitting in our spare refrigerator waiting for sausage making day. Thankfully it’s a super cold fridge of which we don’t open on a daily basis and the meat kept very

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Making our Cupboards more Healthy! MSG and more.......

SAY NO TO MSG!

Monosodium Glutamate and it’s many alias’.
The most widely used flavor enhancer on the market!

If you have only been avoiding the the terms MSG / Monosodium Glutamate because of knowing the ill health effects then you are in for an alarming list of the alias’

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Enriched Foods Wake Up Call..........

ANOTHER Reposting……[ first posted June 5th, 2009 ] brought this one up in light of a great posting over at Just Making Noise “The dirty secrets of Processed Cereals”.

Read below and then listen to the video before heading  over to Just Making Noise for a fine write up about industry and

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