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Even in November there is plenty going on in our garden.  Here are a few images that we especially appreciate.

For those of us in Ohio, we received some good labeling news recently.  The Ohio Department of Agriculture agreed to withdraw a dairy labeling rule that prohibited milk from being labeled as produced without the use of the artificial growth hormone, recombinant growth Hormone (rbGH).

When the weather changes and temperatures start dipping, we tend to gravitate towards comfort foods and meals that stick to our ribs in the cold winter months: soups, stews, and casseroles. I generally try and avoid turning on my oven during the hot summer months so I especially look forward to our winter meal routines. We go from eating an abundance of tomatoes, peppers, berries, and stone fruit to root vegetables, squashes, leeks, kale, and a multitude of others.

I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is just weeks away.  Here is an excerpt from Martha’s book, A Pocket Full of Posies on the focus of herbs during the holidays.  Enjoy!

Here’s an update on our recent chocolate post.

It’s time for another post with articles on subjects you may have missed the first time they were published.

Here is an excerpt from Martha’s book, A Pocket Full of Posies, extolling the virtues of chocolate.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as in many other cultures, the eyes are the windows to the soul and they believe one can see the degree of a person’s shen, or spirit in them.

Here is a round up of a few articles in the past couple weeks that caught our eye and you may have missed.