We purchase so few commercially manufactured products. Regular readers of this publication will know that our family tries to make as much from scratch as we can here on our small farm. There is a product, though, that I have been buying for many years. For health reasons, I drink a small amount of cranberry [...]

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Just a quick post today in order to share a link to an article I consider to be worth your time to read. It was published by the Organic Consumers Association and is called Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath. This is one of the most thorough and thoughtful GMO education pieces I’ve seen written in [...]

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This is an important alert to all California readers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is preparing a ‘Programmatic Environmental Impact Import’ (PEIR) which will give them advance approval for all future pesticide spraying programs, without any safeguards of public input of any kind. As I see it, this is the government’s reaction [...]

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Have you noticed the little blue labels under certain products in the aisles of the nearest Whole Foods Market? They read ‘Gluten Free’ and are placed next to specific items to let people with Celiac Disease or gluten intolerance know that a product is safe for them to consume. This is a laudable and humane [...]

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Aren’t you glad you live in Clover country? This TV jingle is one SF Bay Area residents will immediately recognize from childhood, along with the marketed picture we were sold of happy Clo the Cow, enthroned in endless green pastures, endlessly producing milk for human children rather than her own calves. Clo the Cow appeared [...]

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“Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!” That’s what the simplest, most life-loving element inside me wants to shout when I see our vital SF Bay Area water sources being blasted with a toxic herbicide in the name of ‘controlling’ a weed. But I need to do more than shout. I need to give you the [...]

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Some 50 years have passed since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring – a book heralded by her contemporary society as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of its era. I have just finished reading Linda Lear’s very thorough biography of Rachel Carson’s life and wonder if anyone could contemplate the story of this remarkable woman without feelings [...]

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SB 1070, Arizona’s new Immigration Law must not be tolerated or permitted in the United States of America. This law, which will require all immigrants to carry citizenship papers at all times and will allow police to demand the papers of any individual whom they suspect to be an immigrant, is evil and irrefutably un-American. [...]

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I think it’s necessary to start this essay by stating, for the record, that this article does not intend to criticize any person whom, after doing his own research, has decided that the raw food diet is right for him. This piece of writing is about why I decided that the raw food diet was [...]

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I am so frustrated, sitting down to write this article. I am so ashamed. How can people live their whole lives in California, go to school, read newspapers and many books, interact with their neighbors and yet remain so comfortably ignorant of the true history of this state that they are doomed to repeat the [...]

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