1. Buy Your Food From Bulk Bins.    Most natural food stores, and many supermarkets, offer a variety of loose goods like flours, powders, pastas, beans, nuts, dried fruit, coffee, tea, and spices – and there are awesome advantages to buying these items bulk.  Firstly, you don’t pay for anything other than the [...]

  Whether you’ve started out from seed or just purchased your spring starts, we’re finally (!) entering the arena of actual planting.  Yay!  Final frost will vary by region, but no matter where you are, all that planning and digging and weeding and waiting will soon begin to pay off.  By now you should have [...]

  This blustery spring Saturday, we took a ferry to Seattle. We perused the produce at Pike Place Market and sipped Lambic framboise at The Pike Pub, we toured the Seattle Aquarium, and ate vegan gourmet 76 stories above the city, in the tallest building downtown.     It was windy out on that water! [...]

March 31st marked the fabulous finale to my official RAW experiment, but my actual experience didn’t just end there!  After 31 days of ~99% RAW, I felt better than I had in ages. So even though I was excited to nibble on some of my old cooked-food favorites, I was also eager to eke out [...]

Oi there! Time to tell me what you think! This blog is about community, so this is your weekly space for your comments, critiques, thoughts, support, and suggestions. What did you like this past week?  What were you less than enthused about? Which section would you like to see worked on?(the food? the fashion? the [...]