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What We’re Eating: Beans and Greens

February 18, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

I started eating beans like thirty years ago because this girl served lentils and rice for dinner one night, and I wanted her to like me, so I started making […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: beans, Beans and Greens, chronic illnesses, diet and chronic disease, diet and health, How Not to Die, Rancho Gordo

About Eating Plants

February 15, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

This winter we farmers have been reading a book with a catchy title: How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, M.D. This excerpt from the Preface shows why the book […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. Michael Greger, healing foods, How Not to Die, lifestyle medicine, reversing heart disease, Whole food plant-based diet

Hailey’s Bean Salad

February 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

The bean salad we enjoyed at Meredith’s going away party came from a book called Plant Pure Nation, which is the practical companion to a film detailing what happened to people […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: plant-based diet, PlantPure Nation, The China Study, Veganism

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

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

Nine Generations at Georges Mill Farm

February 20, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

“That’s Saffire,” Molly Kroiz explained, nodding at the goat who’d turned to look us over. “She used to be the queen, but there was a coup d’etat last summer, and […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Georges Mill Farm, goat behavior, goat cheese, goat farming, goat social structure, goat's milk, John George, Molly Kroiz, Sam Kroiz, Samuel George, The German Settlement

GCF Kale Watch Week Three: Spinach

February 13, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

I picked the spinach in that bowl on February 10, which is the dead of winter on the Blue Ridge, but the leaves I pulled from the ground were not […]

Filed Under: Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: balsamic vinegar, cold weather gardening, greens, spinach, temperatures, winter crops, winter greens

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