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Many of us deal with some common issues in our daily life. It is easy to over medicate and treat the symptom instead of dealing with the underlying problem. If you’re looking to avoid prescription drugs and want an alternative treatment, the following herbs may be your solution.

I don’t want to make most of the content of this blog political, but with our current political climate and some of the initiatives that are being pushed through state and federal legislative bodies, it is hard to keep from mentioning them. 

I think most of the country has had a very unusual winter season, not that I’m complaining too terribly much.  Any winter with as little snow as we’ve had here in Ohio is good in my book.  I’m currently enjoying temperatures in the mid-60s which is unusual at this time of year.  My garden isn’t too terribly interesting at this point, I could post pictures of bare trees or beds that are cleaned up for winter but no one wants to see that.  Instead, I’ll post a few photos taken by my dad in my parents garden.

It’s time for another collection of articles from around the web that I’ve found interesting, so let’s dive right in.

Traditionally, February is one of the coldest months of the year where I live, but our winter has felt like anything but.  I think we have gotten a grand total of three or four inches of snow all winter which doesn’t hurt my feelings at all, having grown up in California, but has left my husband grumbling.  He doesn’t think it is winter without a foot or two of snow on the ground.  Despite how warm it has been, it seems like everyone has been sick anyway.  I think it is especially easy for those of us who live in a cold winter climate to forget that temperature isn’t the only contributing factor to getting sick.

A couple weeks ago a petition requesting that Obama cut FDA ties to Monsanto made the rounds.  Here is an article on the subject as well as a link to the petition.  If you have not already, please consider signing it.

Having just had our second child, I seem to have babies on the brain.  We had our second successful home birth and could not be more happy with our experience, in both instances.  This time around, labor took me by surprise and from start to finish it was all over in under 6.5 hours, a far cry from the 44 hour labor I had with Rowan.  As such, here are a few articles that have resonated with me the past few days.

Soup is one of those remarkable dishes that is simple, generally healthy, and an excellent way to keep your New Year’s resolution to eat more vegetables.  According to the Chinese, soups are a great way to keep your immune system healthy.

We are big fans of raw milk around these parts.  Short of that, we’ll take regular pasteurized milk.  There has been a recent crackdown in California regarding raw or unpasteurized milk, and where I live in Ohio, you basically have to go underground to get access to raw milk.

Here are a few more November photos of our garden. Enjoy!