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 7/21/2010 - NVPG
Stumbled on this good Mainstream Media primer on the "High Cost of Cheap Food" - good to pass along to your skeptical friends.
7/5/2010 - Beatrix Farm
Hello Everyone,
Our next On Farm Day 2010 for picking up fresh chickens will be Saturday, July 17th from noon till 5pm. Place your orders now to reserve your chickens.
Dave & Regina Farinholt
Beatrix Farm
6/1/2010 - NVPG
"Label Rouge" method pastured Chickens are the traditional way to grow poultry so that the birds are healthy and the meat is more flavorful and finer grained. These birds are available in limited quantities from Second Wind and Notting Hill.
5/17/2010 - NVPG
Relatively low-level exposure to common pesticides -- probably from residues on foods -- doubles kids' risk of ADHD, Harvard researchers find.
Kids with higher-than-average levels of pesticide metabolites were about twice as likely to have ADHD as kids with undetectable levels of pesticide metabolites, find Marc C. Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, associate professor of environmental health and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.
"This raises concerns that ubiquitous pesticides may be contributing to the national burden of ADHD, which already is quite high,"
3/26/2010 - Notting Hill
Notting Hill started lambing very early this year; we may have some true "spring" lambs available for Easter. Spring lambs are approx 30 lbs and sold live for $60 (no processing). Please contact us directly via email, if interested.
3/1/2010 - NVPG
Pastured Eggs now Available!
US Grade AA Eggs from 100% cage-free and Pastured hens.
Click on the Egg icon to order your fresh eggs.
Available for pick-up at Briarmead farm in Front Royal.
2/11/2010 - Briarmead
At this time of year with much SNOW on the ground and this past season's beef and lamb entirely sold out, we look ahead to warmer weather and our next butchering date in May-June; place your orders now. We appreciate all of the feedback about this year's healthy and delicious beef and lamb. The beef has excellent, rich flavor that has made several customers comment on how it makes conventional feedlot beef taste oh-so-BLAND. Additionally, Briarmead lamb chops are planned as the centerpiece of a local professional chef's upcoming gourmet dinner; sure to please the palates of a group of discriminating guests. We'll let you know how that comes out in March! |
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Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food
Eat Food
- Don’t
eat anything your Great Grandmother wouldn’t recognize as a food.
- Avoid
food products containing ingredients that are:
- Unfamiliar
- Unpronounceable
- More
than five in number
- Include
High-fructose Corn Syrup.
- Avoid
food products that make health claims
- Shop
the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
- Get
out of the supermarket whenever possible
Mostly
Plants
- Eat
mostly plants, especially leaves.
- You
are what you eat eats too.
- If
you have the space, buy a freezer.
- Eat
well-grown food from healthy soils.
- Eat
wild foods when you can.
- Be
the kind of person who takes supplements.
- Eat
more like the French, or the Italians, or the Japanese, or the Indians, or the
Greeks.
- Regard
nontraditional foods with skepticism.
- Don’t
look for the magic bullet in the traditional diet.
- Have
a Glass of wine with dinner.
Not Too
Much
- Pay
more, eat less.
- Eat
meals.
- Do
all your eating at a table.
- Don’t
get your fuel from the same place your car does.
- Try
not to eat alone.
- Consult
your gut.
- Eat
slowly
- Cook,
and, if you can, plant a garden.
www.michaelpollan.com
Read: In
Defense of Food
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