What’s FRESH & LOCAL in February? Easy Healthy Meals on the Bulk Trail
Loris Sofia Gregory, Healthy Kitchen Coach, Apple Valley, MN Valley Natural Foods, 13750 County Road 11, Burnsville, MN 55337 “A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it is being boiled. ‘Why are you doing this to me?’ The cook knocks him down with the ladle. ‘Don’t try to jump out. You [...] Continue
Creating Healthy Soulful Spaces & Heaven on Earth
“The potential of each moment awaits as you choose according to your abilities and knowing. See each moment as a doorway that invites you to experience your divinity and as you embrace new potentials, an opportunity to move farther into your own heaven on earth…Make a list of everything that you do in your life [...] Continue
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Published in Stressfree Living, April 2009 Reconnecting to your heart’s desires and honoring the heart of your home are complementary. Both hearts nourish a deep inner need for connection and balance. Ancient homes were built around a central hearth to provide a focal point for family life. Still today, your heart and your home serve [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in December?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods” (Burnsville, MN) Nature and local producers collaborate to bring us fresh succulent green and red gifts this month. Even after we have been gifted with a moisturizing blanket of pure white snow, local producers still deliver FRESH & LOCAL, including lush deep green upland cress, crisp bright [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in November?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods” (Burnsville, MN) Mushrooms are easy to overlook in our nutrient-rich rainbow of fruits and vegetables. But research increasingly reveals why fresh mushrooms join the ranks of “super foods” such as broccoli and blueberries that are nutrient dense and calorie sparse. In Asia where food and medicine are [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in October?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods,” (Burnsville, MN) Visualize bringing the jewel tones and earthy tastes of autumn to your dinner table. Beware: eating a cornucopia of deep reds, oranges, yellows and greens can lead to radiant optimum health. The USDA currently recommends eating at least four cups of red and orange vegetables [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in September?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods,” (Burnsville, MN) As September arrives on our doorsteps, we notice a change in the air and in what’s FRESH & LOCAL at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville. We may still have a few fleeting days to savor our last bites of fresh cucumber, sweet corn and watermelon [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in August?
Loris Sofia Gregory, Healthy Kitchen Coach, August 3, 2011. Written for Valley Natural Foods, Burnsville, Minnesota. Follow my FRESH & LOCAL blog the first Wednesday of every month at http://valleynaturalfoods.com/wordpress/ August brings some of the healthiest peak pleasures of the summer. This month gives us a dazzling abundant palette to tantalize our taste buds: the [...] Continue
Understanding Our Relationship to the Earth
A Message from Caroline Myss, March 14 “…Only the human community has the idea that we somehow live apart from the Earth, that the Earth does not respond to our breathing, to our thoughts, to our actions. It’s incomprehensible, to be sure, to even hold such a perspective. But the Earth is that sensitive. Recycling [...] Continue
