Simply Raw for Kids: Guacamole

Simply Raw for Kids: Guacamole

Check out two of my beautiful kids in the Alchemy Raw Kitchen!
Kids need raw food too!

Transition Towns

Transition Town Initiative - start one in your own town! It starts when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis?

There is a movement emerging worldwide by necessity based on our inevitable relocalization. It started in Europe and is now moving across the States. It is about re-membering (putting ourselves back together) with ways of the past and the technology of the future.

Check out this video with Rob Hopkins, author of The Transition Handbook



...it is a model which is about ordinary people catalyzing together with their friends, neighbors, community to look at the PRACTICAL responses to peak oil and climate change...growing nuts and bolts of relocalization...based on that where we get to at the end of this can be better than where we start from...

Its origins are inspired by permaculture with a focus on food security because it is the most sensible place to begin. Local food movements are rapidly growing side by side with Transition Initiatives. Communities are establishing their own food systems, creating their own currencies and growing their local economies. It is a movement of optimism and solutions AND it is creating history. Take part!

To find out if there is a movement in your town or to start one, go to: www.transitionus.org

If you are here in CT where I am - mark your calendar for the next TRANSITION TOWN TRAINING right here at in Hartford @ The Growing Green Wellness Center April 10 & 11th. Email me about our ongoing meetings!
Also check out: http://www.shiftthemovie.com/ and http://www.communityplanet.org/

Books to Read:

Transition Town Handbook by Rob Hopkins


Toward 2010: Perspectives on the New Age


The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet by Jack Reed

Update & Recipe from the Alchemy Kitchen

Been busy in the Raw Kitchen and blogging on The Green Girls, twitter & FB! Lots going on in the name of community our way! Info to come soon on our Transition Town Initiative, BALLE Chapter, Farm Fundraiser & more....but until then check out some of my Livin' Live videos from Alchemy....

True Food

Are you staying up to date on the latest GM news? Follow Center for Food Safety on FB & Twitter and use these social networking tools to spread the word! Check up my latest blog on http://www.thegreengirls.tv/ about GM foods if this topic is news to you. This is one of the most important issues our generation of mothers will face in our lifestime. Please, keep your instinct intact and your awareness acute. To stay current on the latest, check out my friend Rady Ananda and his up-to-date blog FOOD FREEDOM (http://www.foodfreedom.wordpress.com/ & on Twitter).

http://truefoodnosew.org/2009/11/17/new-report-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-pesticide-use-on-genetically-engineered-ge-crops-due-to-the-spread-of-resistant-weeds/

Thank you for being awake and paying attention!

proof for what we already know

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/three-approved-gmos-linked-to-organ-damage/

Grow Everything in 2010

As much as I am excited about the New Year I remain concerned about the future of food in our country. Let our resolutions be ones that secure this precious commodity. Start ordering seeds to plant in the coming year, try growing some sprouts, organize a seed swap, gather with others and garden together, buy fruit trees, berry bushes and most importantly use your voice.

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/recommending-aid-for-holiday-giving/

also check out http://www.ftcldf.org/ and http://www.westonprice.org/ to stay up to date on corporate "food safety" bills attempted to be pushed through the Senate by Big Ag aka MONSANTO

Grateful for Organic

I am so thankful to have in my presence those who not only appreciate organic food but also understand the significance of its existence on this fragile planet. My children being first and foremost to grasp this concept. For us eating organic is more than a choice - it is a priviledge and a way of life.

The holidays were more simple than usual this year and I like simple but there were twinges of uncomfortability as we struggle to cover the basic operating expenses for all my "visions" in a community that does not quite get what we are about yet. So when we sat down to our holiday meal tears came to my eyes as each of my children expressed their gratitude for being able to eat an organic meal knowing that was the extent of what I was able to give them this year.

Wow. My children were most thankful for my choice to feed them organic over everything else. The depth of their understanding of how important this is (from
six to sixteen) struck a chord. I felt such gratitude to have children that are able to grasp not only how important it is to me...but to their future as well. Granted they are exposed to the battles of choosing organic over conventional every day at our cafe.

Running an all organic food business has had its challenges....the biggest one primarily being the inability to profit (much less cover operating expenses) to run such a place. They see us working long hours, day after day and help out a great deal as well so we can live our dream in hopes that others will soon understand. Our dedication to feeding others as we feed our family has been a tremendous (and often challenging) learning experience with a cost.

This season I am more grateful than ever to have children that appreciate the most basic gifts life has to offer and it is my hope that the freedom to eat such foods remains theirs forever.