Nourishing Our Children

June 22, 2014

Resources for Baby’s First Solid Foods

You may be surprised to read that we don’t recommend rice cereal as baby’s first food! What, then, if not rice cereal? We have covered this topic fairly extensively, and so have others in our community in articles and in books. As such, we will simply link to various resources rather than replicate the information here.…

June 7, 2014

It’s been ten years since I was introduced to Nourishing Traditions.

The story of my life can be divided into the time before and after I opened the book. The principles outlined by Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig in Nourishing Traditions, have been deeply transformative for me on every level: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Not only has my diet changed fundamentally, but my career path has as well. I…

May 29, 2014

Raspberry Gelatina

Why Gelatin? In their article Why Broth is Beautiful: Essential Roles for Proline, Glycine and Gelatin, The Weston A. Price Foundation explains that “Gelatin is rich in the proline and glycine components that people need, but weak in methionine, histidine and tyrosine and utterly lacking in tryptophan. Accordingly, textbook writers from the 19th century on…

May 17, 2014

How do we alleviate nausea when pregnant?

Morning sickness is common during early pregnancy and it is definitely not limited to the morning for many. These are some recommendations from Sally Fallon Morell’s PowerPoint on Guidelines for a Healthy Pregnancy. Here are some options for vitamin B6 via our Amazon affiliation:BioticsNow FoodsSolgar Theories about morning sickness Old Theory: Increased hormones levels; progesterone relaxes…

May 5, 2014

Healing with Essential Oils

We recommend Vibrant Blue Oils. I love the fact that so many in our community have experience with a wide variety of healing modalities that they can share with us. Jodi Cohen is an example. She writes about her experience of healing herself and her children from a variety of symptoms with essential oils in…

May 3, 2014

3 Free Online Conferences

So many opportunities to learn online for free start tomorrow! The Thyroid Summaries Starts May 4, 2014 23 expert interviews and classes will be presented over the course of 2 weeks on every aspect of the thyroid. Subscribe and view for free If you’d like to purchase the conference to experience it at your leisure,…

April 8, 2014

The Nourished Kitchen

In short: For those who have limited time, I most sincerely recommend The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle. I envision that I will buy it as a gift often via our Amazon affiliation, and will refer to it regularly myself. My Review On a personal note, I am sincerely delighted and honored…

February 17, 2014

A Blessing Way Ceremony

We are all just walking each other home. – Ram Dass On Saturday, I was invited to a blessing way ceremony for Lisa Cauthers, one of our community members who lives in the Portland area. Lisa has written a blog post for us that I encourage you to read about what she wishes she knew before…

January 22, 2014

We seek your creative contributions.

Artist and environmental educator Nancy Judd of Recycle Runway creates couture fashion from trash as an innovative way to provide education about conservation. I am collaborating with my friend of over 25 years on a PowerPoint, study guide and e-book called: Creative Sustainability: educational materials for preserving our planet. We welcome you to view this introductory preview, still…

January 15, 2014

Grade B maple syrup – is it really better?

One of our First Step recommendations is to: “Replace sugar with natural sweeteners in moderation, such as raw local honey, Grade B maple syrup, pure maple sugar, molasses, dehydrated coconut nectar, coconut palm sugar, green powder stevia, rapadura and sucanat.” When it comes to maple syrup, we’ve always recommended Grade B in accord with the…