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Sex Not Food

Sex Not Food

I’ve written before about how running helped me to lose weight. But that’s not the whole story. It really started with a totally different concept of how I look at food, and as a result, at my body and my life. Sex, Not Food may sound controversial or even (gasp!) promiscuous. But it’s really a […]

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Claudia Dreifus

A Visit to My Kitchen: Claudia Dreifus

Claudia Dreifus is in my kitchen today, discussing her thoughts on news, and a few of her latest favorite things—from books to scissors! Claudia isn’t a mover and shaker in the organic movement (as many Farm Country Kitchen guest are), but she’s a mover and shaker in the journalistic world. She’s a prize-winning journalist (HigherEducationQuestionMark.com) […]

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Why All the Floods?

Why All the Floods?

Is it me, or are we being inundated with catastrophic floods? Cedar Rapids, Nashville, Australia, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana…the list goes on, and while it seems like an especially bad year, the trend has been growing. You can blame it on global warming, the rapture, or just plain bad luck. But I have a different theory. […]

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5 Tips for Mastering an Antique Show

5 Tips for Mastering an Antique Show

by guest blogger, designer Mark Kintzel I love going to antique shows. You never know what you’re going to find, or whom you’re going to see.  (Let’s just say, antiques aren’t the only finds with “patina.”)  One year at the Antiques and Collectors Extravaganza in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a dealer was selling coffins. Ummm…I’ll pass. But […]

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Is America a Third World Country?

Is America a Third World Country?

The other day I was talking to a dear friend of mine who had just returned from a business trip to China. “Coming back to America felt like returning to a Third World country,” he said. I was momentarily stunned, because I’d had the exact same thought when returning from Germany a few months ago. […]

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5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens

5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens

by Leah Zerbe, an online editor at Rodalenews.com. I lived a pretty dysfunctional farm life growing up. The fields were filled with corn or soy commodity crops, not delicious, nourishing people food. My late grandfather’s pigsty and chicken coop were long-abandoned and falling apart, and no one particularly cared to fix them up. The farm […]

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One Day, You Too Can Be an NRDC Growing Green Winner!

One Day, You Too Can Be an NRDC Growing Green Winner!

By using less plastic, hanging more unmentionables on the clothesline, and stocking our cabinets with Chocolate Blasters instead of Coco Pops, many of us “go green” on a daily basis. But some people take it all the way. And those are the ones that I reviewed as part of an interesting panel of judges for […]

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Why Women’s History Is So Important

Why Women’s History Is So Important

This is the last week of National Women’s History month. Big whoop, right? Yeah, big whoop (from yo’ mamma) right on your ass if you think you don’t have to care about it. Just ask Hillary Clinton, who, according to a recent issue of People magazine, has logged more than 492,646 air miles traveling around […]

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