Parsnips

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s that time of year when it seems like just about everyone is on some new health kick. So, if you can’t beat ‘em, might as well join ‘em, right?

Embodying health can be as easy as filling up your shopping cart with fresh, nutritious, inexpensive, and certainly tasty seasonal produce, and planning your meals around it. Choose January’s best to get the most for your money because, when you shop smart, quality and quantity do go hand-in-hand! Whoever said, “You can’t have your cake, and eat it, too” clearly wasn’t a savvy, seasonal shopper.

When winter rolls around, I like to mix up my salads with some delicious seasonal foods.

I've been called a soup head all my life, and I certainly live up to that name in autumn. As soon as the weather gets colder, I start making soup almost every day. Here are three hearty soup recipes perfect for autumn that I personally love and make all the time. 

There are lots of good reasons to eat seasonally: when fruits and vegetables are fresh, their nutrition is at its peak, and it’s more environmentally sustainable, for starters.  Ayurveda encourages eating seasonally too, and if you’re growing your own food, then it just makes sense to eat seasonally.  But it can be difficult to eat the fruits and vegetables that are in season if they’re new to you, or if yo

Parsnips are a member of the family Apiaceae, commonly known as the carrot family, which contains ninety-one genera and includes parsnips or Pastinaca L. The plant originally was found from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus region of Asia and was cultivated from the wild parsnip.

Growing your own organic vegetables is the best way to ensure they will not be exposed to excessive, harsh chemicals. But what if you have sandy soil? Sandy soils are made up of loose, granular dirt containing small rocks and minerals. A common misconception of gardeners is that you cannot grow anything in this kind of soil. I am excited to tell you that even though a great deal of vegetables cannot thrive in this soil, there are a few that actually can. Check out these 7 vegetables that you can grow in sandy soil!