It can be difficult to come up with the perfect holiday gift. This year, why not help your loved ones get on the weekly track to better health: less meat, more veggies! Indoor gardening can be a relaxing (and delicious) way to cure cabin fever. With so many different vegetables, herbs and planters to choose from you’re sure to find a gift that is both personal and thoughtful!
Terri Wahl is the founder of a LA based CSA. These can bring weekly helpings of local, seasonal agriculture right to your doorstep – perfect for helping you go meatless!
The Baltimore City Public School system is about to become the first fully Meatless Monday school system in the U.S. They’re joining a growing international movement of individuals, organizations, communities and cities making the commitment to lower meat consumption and enjoy a plant-based diet on Mondays.
The beginning of autumn marks the point when many of our favorite fruits and vegetables are ripe for the picking. This year, harvest has become a national affair. Michelle Obama’s famed White House garden is in bloom and ready to offer its bounty to a country hungry for nutritional guidance.
Large quantities of cheap fast food may seem like a bargain on the surface, but a closer look shows us that these highly processed, industrialized food products have a multitude of hidden expenses. Brian Walsh, a health and science writer for TIME Magazine, recently tallied up the impact that industrial farming is having on the environment, our health and the national budget. Our solution: go meatless on Mondays!
Blogger extraordinaire Kerry Trueman opens her eyes to the virtues of the ubiquitous zucchini.
Summertime…and the sowin’s easy. In the first installment of our series, we looked at the perfect seeds for summer planting. Now, it’s time to crack open those seed packets of greens, beets, radishes and turnips and get to work! These so-called “cool weather” crops actually germinate faster in warm soil. They grow more quickly in summer, too. Start this Monday, and you could be harvesting the ingredients you need for those end-of-summer salads and slaws!
Now that the kitchen garden revival is in full swing, thousands of newly minted gardeners are starting to savor their first harvests. But what if you missed the boat on the spring planting season? Don’t worry, it’s not too late. And it’s Monday – the perfect time to start a new personal project. This week respected food blogger Kerry Trueman launches her Kitchen Garden Series where you’ll discover mid-summer is a great time to plant certain delicious veggies!
If ever a vegetable needed a marketing makeover, it’s kohlrabi. This delightfully crunchy, slightly sweet vegetable suffers from the double whammy of having a funny name and an even odder appearance.
With its crisp texture and distinctive bite, the summer radish adds crunch on a lazy, sweltering day. Not only is the radish a pleasure to eat, it’s an excellent source of folic acid, vitamin C and potassium.
There’s no better way to get excited about veggies and herbs than to grow them yourself! Gardening relieves stress, beautifies your home and can save you money, too.
