It’s Easter season and eggs are everywhere but are all eggs created equal? You know the answer to this or I wouldn’t be asking the question. No, they are not. Try this little experiment. Buy three dozen eggs: 1 doz regular, grocery store eggs; 1 doz eggs marked free range; 1 doz local, farm fresh […]

I had the experience last week of eating out a lot more than I have in the recent past. It was fun, as it usually is, to go out (especially to have someone else cook AND clean up!) But, I found myself scouring the menu for the right thing to eat. We lucked out with […]

Everyone is talking about it… How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

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When my little J was just starting to eat solid foods I felt like I didn’t have the time or energy to make my own baby food. I bought Beech Nut Pureed Veggies (Gerber had too many additives) and rice cereal and we mashed bananas. Then M arrived and I had learned to puree veggies […]

Need a great place to stop for ice cream, play and hang out with animals: Kilby Creamery. One of two places in Maryland that starts and completes the entire ice cream making process on site. They have a nice play set for the kids and animals for petting. Today, was a glorious day to be […]

We hit the Inner Harbor tonight for dinner with the kids and parents. It was late and we wondered into Pizzazz Tuscan Grille. By a stroke of luck we found that they support local, free range and other sustainable cooking practices. Wahoo! The food was yummy and the staff was attentive especially to our three-ring […]

Reduce, reuse and recycle. For a long time I was only focusing on the ‘recycle’ part but this earth love triangle doesn’t work without the first two. It isn’t enough to just recycle if you are not purchasing recycled products, first reducing your trash output and then reusing as much as possible before sending your […]

Barbara Kingsolver in her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.), mentions that March is the hungry month. I had never thought that much about food before. It is really a recent thing that we don’t worry about having enough of a harvest to last through the winter. Goodness, many people these […]

Today was a shopping day. Buying local means that you do not get all your food in one place. I have this dream of opening a store, well maybe not a store, just a four walled space where farmers could bring their produce year round here locally. Really all my dreams are self serving, I […]