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The High Price of Vanity: How Natural Is Your Natural Skin Care Routine?
Many of the synthetic chemicals and artificial fragrances in our everyday skin care products have names that might sound like Greek to us. Their pronounceability is only a tiny part of the problem they pose. Because our skin can absorb up to 60 percent of … Read More
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Two Gluten-Free Grain Bowls for Fall
I don’t know about you, but for me the dinnertime scramble is real. Whether you have a job or kids or both, it can be a struggle to satisfy the desire to eat something vibrant and delectable without having hours to spend in the kitchen. Read More
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Waste Not: Essential Oils and Sustainability
Essential oils are potent, chemically complex extracts of herbs, spices, fruits, and other plants. They form the basis of the fragrant science of aromatherapy — the therapeutic application of pure, superior-grade essential oils for physical and psychological well-being. Aromatherapy appeals on many levels, and its … Read More
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Tomato Slab Pie (VIDEO)
We’ve officially arrived in the season of late summer abundance, when food ripens faster than it can possibly be consumed. Every afternoon I’m greeted by a new, sunny cluster of ripe Garden Peach tomatoes on my lone tomato plant. I’ve been using the fruit, bursting … Read More
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Common Sun Sense for Protecting Skin’s Health and Beauty
We’ve become a sun-phobic society. Yet most living things — plants, animals, and people — need at least a little sunshine in order to survive and thrive. Certainly, overexposure to the sun is the single most damaging event for your skin. It’s not just sunburns … Read More
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Bloom Day — August 2018
What began as a pretty wonderful summer here in the Northeast has become a Super Soaker. While news of raging wildfires in the dry, dry western states and Europe comes steadily each day, we have spent the last month feeling very much like we’re
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Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Foreword from Forest Bathing Retreat
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The Five Most Popular Essential Oils — and Why You Need Them
If you tend to follow healthy lifestyle habits, then you’ve probably at least heard about essential oils. Perhaps you already use them. But do you really know what they are? In a nutshell, essential oils are volatile (meaning they evaporate easily due to their molecular … Read More
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On Writing — and Rewriting — a Rabbit-Raising Book
Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. You might even like it. That's the case for Storey’s Guide to Raising Rabbits, a book now in its fifth edition.
As a kid, I liked rabbits and writing. While
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Bloom Day — July 2018
While our friends in some parts of the country are suffering extreme heat and others are just on the other side of June’s record rainfall, summer is settling in nicely here in New England. Apart from last week’s uncomfortable temperatures, it’s been a pretty blissful … Read More
