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Growing Food Security: The Benefits of Urban Gardening

Urban and localized gardening can bring fresh, organic, healthy, sustainable and affordable food to nearly every household, creating a resilient food system.

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Food as Medicine: The Healing Power of Nutrition

Well-being is increasingly linked by researchers to a healthy diet, motivating many people and the medical community to take seriously plant-based diets and the role of gut microoganisms.

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Composting Made Easy: Turn Food Waste into ‘Black Gold’

Uneaten food rotting in landfills accounts for almost a quarter of U.S. methane emissions, but it can be turned into dark compost that enriches garden soil with these steps to get started.

Urban garden growing rows of vegetables, flowers and plants in raised beds

Growing Food Security: The Benefits of Urban Gardening

Health practitioner pointing to vegetables in a circle labeled with corresponding vitamins contained in them

Food as Medicine: The Healing Power of Nutrition

Food waste in brown paper bag to turn into compost

Composting Made Easy: Turn Food Waste into ‘Black Gold’

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Featured Articles

The Candida Diet

The Candida diet is similar to the South Beach diet and the paleo diet—low in carbohydrates; sugar (even in healthy foods like fruit); and fermented foods like vinegar and alcohol. Read More »

Being Well Has Never Been Easier

Be Well Holistic Massage Wellness Center, Ocala, offers massage, medical massage, acupuncture, organic skin care and facials and oriental medicine, plus yoga starting August 1, with the addition of chiropractic in 2022. Read More »

Food Really is the Best Medicine

Sponsored Content Check out Dr. Laura Varich's Q & A on eating healthy foods that help to lower your cholesterol, improve sleep and lower your hypertension. Read More »

Grilled carrots seasoned with cumin and herbs, ricotta cheese and pecans cooked in a cast iron pan over a grill

Grilled Cumin Carrots with Pecans, Ricotta and Herbs

Carrots seasoned in cumin and herbs with pecans and ricotta make for a delicious meat-free, vegetarian grilling recipe. Read More »

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BBQ Brussels Sprouts Sandwiches with Brussels Sprout Slaw

This tasty vegetarian recipe for barbecued Brussels sprouts is the perfect meat-free meal to grill up. Read More »

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Sizzling on the Grill: Healthy, Sustainable Summer Fare

Delicious, green alternatives to traditional, carbon-emitting grilling methods including chemical-free charcoal, healthy plant-based grilled foods and eco-friendly dinnerware. Read More »

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Food to Heal the Planet

Organic, locavore and small-farm advocates are speaking out against the U.S. food system with its use of pesticides, poor treatment of animals and lack of regenerative soil management. Read More »

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The Nutrition Shift in the Medical Field

The medical community is slowly shifting toward using nutrition in tandem with traditional care to help manage and prevent disease. Read More »

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Nature Documentaries Mislead Public Opinion

The unswerving presentation of nature as an untouched wilderness in nature documentaries misleads viewers into thinking that an abundance of these areas currently remains. Read More »

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Las Vegas Seeks to Ban Nonfunctional Grass

Las Vegas-area water officials hope to impose a policy banning grass on “nonfunctional turf” that no one walks on in such places as highway medians, housing developments and office parks. Read More »

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Dealers Align Behind Electric Cars

The success of electric vehicle models, along with a plan to stop selling new internal combustion cars by 2035 in California, have propelled the transition from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. Read More »

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Huge Indoor Vertical Farm to Serve Food Desert

The agriculture startup Plenty Unlimited Inc. is building an indoor vertical farm in Compton to provide jobs and fresh produce to the historical “food desert” and surrounding areas. Read More »

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