Organic

GET FRESH WITH SARA SNOW
Discovery Health Channel
When to Watch: Thursdays at 8 PM ET/PT

Editor’s note: We’ve had a chance to view this show twice and we approve! Sara Snow is charming and the topics and tips are great. Let your obsession with Ugly Betty go for a while and watch the show on The Discovery Health Channel, Thursdays at 8PM ET/PT.

In the new primetime series, GET FRESH WITH SARA SNOW, Discovery Health introduces its resident natural living expert, Sara Snow, who shows accessible ways to make healthy living everyday living by focusing on the small things you can do to create a healthier life for you, your family and for generations to come. (more…)

By Arabella Greatorex

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By Lisa Poisso

Is your produce organic? There’s an easy way to tell: read the code from the sticker on each piece.
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By Tara Bzdok

Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about fair trade, shade-grown and organic coffee — that purchasing it contributes to a better environment, a safer and more humane workplace and a chance for the farmers to make a real living. But did you know that cocoa, also known as “chocolate,” is grown in a very similar manner and has the same social and environmental impact? (more…)

By Julie Bloss Kelsey
You know not to garden near your house, because your home was once painted with lead-based paint. You know not to garden near the road because automobile exhaust used to contain lead. But did you know that former farming practices might have contributed to lead and arsenic contamination in your soil? (more…)

By Susun Weed

Your garden: what fun — and frustration — await you there! The best mentor you can choose, as far as I’m concerned, is nature herself. Nature likes life everywhere. Have an open field and plants magically appear! This is the way plants grow when left to themselves. We don’t have to struggle so much. (more…)