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So long, Farmhands

January 8, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Kia Ora, as we say in Maori — meaning ‘Be well and healthy.’ We being me and the New Zealanders I’ll be meeting soon. Some of you may recognize my […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: New Zealand, WWOOFING

Dirt Farm Hits the Bottle

January 8, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

On Tuesday, Janell, Bruce, Nick, Wes and I gathered in the tap room to generate label content for the two beers we’ll be bottling soon. We sniffed and sipped and […]

Filed Under: On Foggy Bottom Road, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bottling, Cherry Ale, Craft Beer, Dirt Farm Brewing, Tart 31, Work Session IPA

Why Do We Love Them?

May 12, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

The simplest way to answer that question is to put one in your mouth, like the guy in the photo to the left just did. The answer is the red […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: anthocyanins, California strawberry growers, Strawberries, Strawberry ripening, Strawberry shelf life

Sit Stay Training Featured at Dog Days Festival

April 29, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

My dogs don’t follow instructions. They’re smart guys who understand English pretty well, but they generally do what pleases them, not what pleases me. When I tell them to get […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Meghann Weller, Meghann Weller-Redmer, Sit Stay Dog Training, The National K-9 Learning Center

Leesburg Chiropractic Pursues Total Wellness

April 28, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

When I visited Leesburg Chiropractic last week, Dr. Sampson gave me company pen that looked like it had been slammed in a drawer. Between the words “Leesburg” and “Chiropractic”, the […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: chiropractic, Dr. Chris Oliver, Dr. Eric Saxton, Dr. Josh Sampson, Jeff Hawkins, Julie Bertin, Leesburg Chiropractic, Stephanie Clark

Kale as Tender as Parsley

April 16, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

I ate my kale with pinto beans and quinoa — not a fancy dish, but cheap and nourishing. First I braised the kale with some onion, and since heat softens […]

Filed Under: Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: brassicas, cabbage, great country farms, kale

GCF Offers Heritage Breeds from Spring House Farm

April 14, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

It was feeding time when I arrived at Spring House Farm for a visit, so I put on a pair of muck boots and followed Andrew Crush to the breakfast […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Andrew Crush, confinement feeding, forest finished meats, grass fed meats, Heritage breed pigs, Mule Foot pigs, Ossabaw pigs, Spring House Farm, type-2 diebetes research

Group Site Partner Nova Medical Re-Imagines Health Management

March 30, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

The old adage that every cloud has a silver lining ranks pretty high on the list of Things That People Say About The World. We know it isn’t true — […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Dr. Grace Keenan, integrative health care, integrative primary care, Kiet Ly, Nancy Jezior, naturopathy, Nova Medical & Urgent Care Center, Nova Medical Group, Sharon Lindblad, The Randy Radish

Does Wheatgrass Accelerate Recovery?

March 18, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

I used to be an athlete. When I was 17, I could swim 100 yards of freestyle in 47 seconds, and no one has ever swum 100 yards of butterfly […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: benefits of wheatgrass juice, drinking wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass and blood oxygen, wheatgrass and exercise, wheatgrass anecdotal evidence, wheatgrass experiments, wheatgrass skepitcs

Grassing up

March 10, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

It’s supposed to be good for you to a degree that makes you wonder whether it’s too good to be true. Some of the claims are hard to believe: “Wheatgrass […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: drinking wheatgrass juice, great country farms, Omega 8006, wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass juice benefits, wheatgrass juice claims

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