Just about everyone I know has at least one furry friend in their lives. We have two – Goliath is a three-year-old Toy Manchester Terrier and Dakota is a year-old yellow Lab. Until Dakota arrived Goliath enjoyed occasional snacks. Since Dakota, who is always interested in eating, joined our family last July, that dynamic [...]
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Cory Clarke, the founder of the Shootflying Hill Sauce Company, has just about always loved to make sauces.
Cory started learning how to make desserts while standing on a chair to reach the kitchen counter. She has always valued the feeling of comfort and love that you can give to someone by preparing good food.
During Cory’s [...]
Though this blog has become a big part of my life, I also research and write books. One of my current endeavors is a book about nutritional controversies for Greenwood Press. While researching the chapter on genetically modified food, I found a truly informative and incredibly appealing book, Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and [...]
Earth Friendly Goods: One Stop Shopping
20-Apr-08Earth Friendly Goods is a one stop shopping site for a host of different eco-friendly products, including earth friendly clothing, vegan footwear, earth friendly home goods, natural bedroom products, healthy food and nutrition items, hemp fabric and twine, stickers, paper goods, and things for the pet(s) in your life.
Many of our products are made from [...]
Envirosax: Reusable Bags
20-Apr-08For years, customers heard the same question from supermarket cashiers – “Paper or plastic”? Just about always, my husband and I would reply, “Paper.” For those of us who patronize the Whole Food stores in the Boston-area, as we do, those days are over. There are no longer any plastic bags. And, while there are [...]
Millions of Americans have food intolerances, allergies, and/or celiac disease. Eating certain foods just makes them sick. Many of these are unable to eat gluten (wheat, oats, barley, and rye) and casein (protein found in milk).
If you have been searching for a gluten and casein free snack that is produced by a socially responsible [...]
Maggie’s Soap Nuts: Unique Detergent
29-Mar-08Have you ever heard of cleaning with soap nuts? I certainly hadn’t. Until, one day, boxes of Maggie’s Soap Nuts appeared on a shelf of our nearby health food store. Since the package indicates that the company donates 10 percent of its net proceeds “to groups that improve the lives of mothers, children and [...]