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Curious Produce: Little Potato Cucumbers
Jessup has a locally-grown (organic, of course) oddity on the shelf right now: the Little Potato Cucumber! The texture is similar to a regular cucumber and the flavor is mild, mellow and cool, much like traditional cucumbers. If you … Continue reading
Day On The Bay
A great deal of my childhood was spent on the Chesapeake Bay, netting crabs (or trying to), collecting oyster shells, and waving at passing sailboats. My great grandmother would steam blue crabs and we’d sit in the sunshine and talk … Continue reading
Eyes On Your Kids
You’re the parent. You’re the boss. You make the decisions for your family. Right? Well, food marketers have noticed that there’s a very influential lobbyist, of sorts, in your midst: Your child. Children have an impressive repertoire of tactics to … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Family, News
Tagged brand loyalty, brand trust, branded characters, calorie needs, cartoon characters, cartoon eyes, cereal, commercial free childhood, Cornell University, eating habits, eye contact, Food Psychology Department, healthy food, marketing tactics, marketing to kids, MOMs policy, nutrition needs
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Eat Your Weed
MOMs is in full-obsession mode this week over dandelions – and we have every reason to be. We, Americans in particular, are choking our ground water with fertilizers and drying out our clean water resources to try to give grass … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Lawns, Native plants, Vegetables
Tagged bee balm, chicory, Christopher Hobbs, clover, common plantain, cow slip, dandelions, edible weeds, elder, fertilizer, ground ivy, lambs quarter, lawn care, lawn chemicals, major plantain, medicine cabinet, nutrition, plantago major, psyllium fiber, redbud, safe disposal, soil amendment, soil improvement, weed weasel
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Change Your Scenery
If you had told me, when I started in the natural health field at 19 years old, that one day I would be traveling to faraway lands for my job, I would’ve laughed. Then I would’ve finished pricing my products … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Fruits, Gardening, Natural Health
Tagged annatto, biodynamic farming, coffee farms, Costa Rica, eco-resort, ginger, glass frog, guanabana, hanging bridges, howler monkeys, La Fortuna, livestock, medicinal plants, New Chapter, rambutan, Sacred Seeds, sloth, sustainable hospitality, turmeric, weather channel
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Brushing Your Teeth Should Feel Good
On a recent early Fall day, in the wee hours of morning, about 20 MOMs employees showed up at the parking lot in College Park and piled our sleepy selves onto a mini-bus for a trip to adorable Kutztown, PA … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Energy Resources, Local, Recycling
Tagged bristling machine, cranberry floss, ergonomic, Kidz, Kutztown PA, left-handed, oral health, Original, Radius, recycled rubber, right-handed, Scuba, solar panels, Source, toothbrush, Totz
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A New Pledge
This post is the conclusion to a previous post. Check it out here. In Olympia WA, Alaffia is a small company that receives raw ingredients from their Togo women’s cooperative, then packages, labels and ships finished products for sale to … Continue reading
Posted in Green Careers, Natural Health
Tagged Afican Black Soap, Alaffia, Alaffia pledge, artisan women, Beautiful Curls, body lotion, body wash, botanical ingredients, community empowerment, conditioner, cooperatives, employment, Everyday Coconut, Everyday Shea, gender equality, hair oil, hand soap, Olowo-n'djo, Olympia, shampoo, Togo
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Alaffia Pledge – Gender Equality and Community Empowerment
Often when a passionate and enthusiastic person, concerned about human rights and environment, decides to focus their energy on making a difference they look to support charitable organizations that may offer funds, education and outreach to communities that either need … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Ecology, Family, Native plants
Tagged Alaffia Skincare, artisan, basket weaving, Bicycle program, coconut, cooperatives, employment, empowerment, Everyday Coconut, Everyday Shea, fair trade, female excision, gender equality, lemongrass, lotion, maternal health, neem, Olowo-n'djo Tchala, Olympia WA, poverty, reforestation, Rose Hyde, shampoo, shea butter, Togo, traditional, West Africa
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MOMs on the Bay
Employees from the Alexandria store had a great bay adventure recently with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Read on for Alex’s rundown on the awesome day. “It was a balmy summer morning, with the promise of Washington’s finest heat and humidity … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Local, Water
Tagged bald eagles, boat, catfish, CBF, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake watershed, Conservation, CSNY, District of Columbia, Eastern Shore, ecology, Maryland, Mount Vernon, oxygen levels, oysters, perch, pesticides, Potomac River, run-off, salinity, SE Harbor Waterfront, sewer system, trawling, watershed
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A Visit to BioSphere: Montreal
My husband and I took a trip to Montreal this Spring and had a great time. There are many great things about the city, which is known among many other things, to be rather forward-thinking when it comes to environmental … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Ecology, Energy Resources, Family, Water
Tagged acrobats, admission, air pollution, Biosphere, environmental education, experiments, fabric, fashion, fee, hypothesis, Montreal, museum, outfits, parking, review, TOHU, tourism, travel, water conservation, water pollution
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