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"Start a Local Community Garden or farmer's Market People are always talking about the importance of buying locally grown fruits and vegetables, and I agree that local food is far healthier than food that has been transported in planes and trucks and been stripped of many of its nutrients in the process. Unfortunately, in many communities buying locally just isn't a realistic option yet. In small towns all over the country, people just don't have access to farmer's markets. And even if they do, the items on sale—soaps, flowers, baked goods—can be both expensive and nonessential." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Search your neighborhood for organic food stores and farmer's markets to purchase your produce and meats. If you find a farmer's market that suits your needs, be sure to ask them if their merchandise is organic, since some farmers use pesticides and other toxins. But if there isn't a health-food store or organic market in your community, you can take steps to remedy the situation. Submit a petition signed by parents to local grocers, requesting that they designate a section for organic products." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"His goal at the farmer's market isn't so much to sell fruits, it's to educate people about the vast array of fruits on their doorsteps. When a family arrives at the co-op, he starts telling them all about the different fruits. They purchase a bunch of tropical apricots, mountain apples and Surinam cherries. I ask two kids what they think of the market. "Our parents said that we had to do something educational today," says one tween fingering a bignay. "This is educational but it's not too bad. It's fun, actually." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"For more information on starting a local farmer's market, see http://edis .ifas.ufl.edu/fy639 and www.organic-growers.com/start_a_farmers_ market_l.htm. Support Child-Friendly Legislation Our government can help us in our fight to protect our children. In the resources section, I go into detail about many laws—from the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act to mercury-free vaccine legislation—geared at preventing childhood illnesses. I cannot emphasize how important it is for you to support this legislation, both on the state and federal levels." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "If you find a farmer's market that suits your needs, be sure to ask them if their merchandise is organic, since some farmers use pesticides and other toxins. But if there isn't a health-food store or organic market in your community, you can take steps to remedy the situation. Submit a petition signed by parents to local grocers, requesting that they designate a section for organic products. It's really that easy—if more people understood how effective petitioning can be, they'd no longer accept food contaminated with toxic fertilizers and other chemicals." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"This economic reality of high-priced fresh foods is going to encourage you to frequent farmer's markets, co-ops, and locally grown foods where the costs are much lower for higher-quality foods because the prices are not controlled by agribusiness, which tends to push the high-calorie junk foods. Buying local food straight from the farmer puts you in closer touch with the origin of the food, cuts a significant portion of the time and money spent transporting and "selling" the food, saves you money, and places more dollars in the pocket of those who produce your food." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Externally, we are looking at shifting out of conventional restaurants, and out of the center of the grocery store with its processed, adulterated foods, and into the farmer's markets, the co-ops, and the produce section of the grocery store. As pointed out in Chapter 2, buying cheap, calorie-rich, nutrient-poor processed foods in the center of the grocery store can add to the diabetogenic process." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Eliza is a 27-year-old science writer from California with the wholesome good looks of a farmer's daughter. As a writer and editor of health magazines, she is familiar with every fad diet and "health supplement" that has come along in the past decade. The countless stories she had researched on health and wellness had galvanized her belief in the subtle, long-term power of eating unprocessed foods. For this trip, she'd done several months' research into the nutrient values of fruits and vegetables that we'd expect to encounter in Nicoya." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Feel free to substitute fresh ingredients depending on what's available at your store or farmer's market. HOW TO EVOLVE YOUR SHOPPING STYLE Although most of my recipes call for familiar ingredients, some ingredients such as agave syrup or whey protein powder may be new to you—and you may not know where to find them. Others, such as tomato sauce with no added sugar or non-Dutch-processed cocoa powder, differ in important ways from those you may be currently using." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Most likely, you can find a local farmer's market in or near your city, especially near rural areas. A farmer's market is the best place to buy your food because it is grown in your local environment and picked ripe, plus it supports local, small-production farmers. You might be saying, "I know organic foods are good for me, but they're too expensive." My response is—how much do you think your health is worth? By comparison, how much do you spend each year on new clothes, personal grooming, or even on a $3.50 fresh latte every morning?" - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Depending on what you buy, you may pay a slightly higher price when shopping at the farmers' market, but there are two significant reasons to shell out a few more cents: first, you know exactly where that money goes —straight into a farmer's pocket; and second, that farmer's produce is guaranteed to taste better than the grocery variety. If you can't find a farmers' market nearby, it's not very hard to start one for your community." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In exchange for tending the coppice, Love can sell excess fruits at his farmer's market. It's a beautiful garden, filled with wonders such as the egg fruit, a golden, mango-sized fruit shaped like a teardrop. Near the entrance is the noni: a lumpy, gnomish fruit that smells like dirty socks. It's also called the vomit fruit, says Love, but some people think it cures cancer. It can't be eaten raw because it's too tough; but in juice form, it became the locus of a health craze that swept through the diet-obsessed 1990s. A dog follows us through the orchard, eating fallen mangoes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Instead of heading for the dermatologist's office, make a U-turn to the farmer's market. Cut down on your meat and decrease your heat. This strategy is not about the ethics of eating animals, being the highest carnivore on the food chain, or deforestation of the Amazon to raise cattle. Rather, it is about finding the balance of animal protein to green plants in your diet that is right for you. You may transition to a near total vegephile existence in your Diet Evolution, or you may decide that all you are comfortable with is one meatless day a week. The choice is yours." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"A 2006 ADVERTISEMENT in the farmer's Almanac for a book called Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods claims that two servings a week of grape juice fights "heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer!" Its main source is a 1928 book called The Grape Cure that has sold more than one million copies and is still in print today. Written by Johanna Brandt, the book recommends that sick people should eat nothing but grapes. The author provided anecdotal evidence of curing terminal cancer patients." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Servings: 4 Serving Size: 1 cup Volume: 4+ cups Total Time: 14 minutes Cook Time: 4 minutes Prep Time: 10 minutes vegetarian No Cook Vegetable Kabobs Hit the garden or the farmer's marketfor these fresh vegetables and dinner becomes a feast!" - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Only the farmer's boy, handicapped by the stallion, was allowed to stay behind. Again the neighbors came to make a point of the farmer's good fortune. Again he told them, "Good luck, bad luck! Who can say?" The next day, the fighting spread to the outskirts of the village not far from the farm. Eventually the enemy retreated, but not before they burned the surrounding hillside and destroyed the farmer's old stone fence. The next day, their sons returned to safety and their own homes unscathed, the villagers came once more to cluck at the farmer's ih fate." - Pratima Raichur, Mariam Cohn, Absolute Beauty: Radiant Skin and Inner Harmony Through the Ancient Secrets of Ayurveda (Get the book.)

"I'm arranging the lists this way because many people find that they do "destination" marketing: They shop for canned goods, for example, at their local supermarket and fresh fruits and vegetables at a farmer's market or other local source. Obviously, you won't be buying everything you need to eat for the duration of your SuperFoods Diet in one shopping trip! Some of the SuperFoods are fresh foods that should be purchased on a regular basis. But don't think you must be running to the market constantly." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Also, local farmer's markets can be a great source for organic foods, often at lower prices than you will pay in the supermarket or health food store. Favorite Brands Vitamins and Supplements When I opened my first Natural Medicine Store, I stocked the shelves with natural products from a variety of manufacturers. It was not long before the difference in my patients' and customers' responses signaled to me that not all product manufacturers could be trusted. According to a recent survey of nearly 1,000 supplements conducted by ConsumerLab." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"If you can't find bilberries at the farmer's market, look for preserves in gourmet shops. Add a smear of jelly to your morning toast and look sharp. • Exercises Replace Corrective Lenses? When most people think of eyes, they think of eyeballs, not muscles. But in fact there are six basic muscles attached to the eyes, and they can be trained to help improve vision. In brief, many behavioral optometrists and some ophthalmologists believe that eye muscles can become rigid before their time, and that you can retrain your eyes to see better by doing a series of relaxation exercises." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In time, thanks to family, friends, and the farmer's market, his room was brimming with fresh-cut flowers and potted plants. I also brought pictures of the people and places he loved: a recent eight-by-ten black-and-white portrait of me and our boys that my husband had framed for me for Mother's Day, a picture of our home, and pictures of his favorite spots on the beach. I remade the walls nearest his bedside with visual reminders of the people and places awaiting his return. I encouraged our two boys to think of what they might bring to lift their papa's spirits." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Depending on what you buy, you may pay a slightly higher price when shopping at the farmers' market, but there are two significant reasons to shell out a few more cents: first, you know exactly where that money goes —straight into a farmer's pocket; and second, that farmer's produce is guaranteed to taste better than the grocery variety. If you can't find a farmers' market nearby, it's not very hard to start one for your community." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Alice Waters's cheerleading of mulberries has resulted in skyrocketing prices at California farmer's markets. When yuzu, a Japanese citrus, started being touted by celebrity chefs like Jean Georges Vongerichten and Eric Ripert, producers rushed to bring anything yuzu to supermarket shelves. When chef-artist-scientist Ferran Adria of El Bulli first tasted an Australian finger lime, the latest buzz fruit, he broke into tears. Each finger-shaped fruit teems with spherical pulp vesicles that are the citrus equivalent of caviar." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The habit of constant adjustment to changing environmental conditions was deeply ingrained in the southwestern farmer's psyche from the very beginning. The ancestors of the Anasazi were already farming the valleys and hillsides of the Colorado Plateau when Rome was still a growing town and the Assyrians held sway over much of southwestern Asia. But their successful adaptation to their homeland was never in long-term equilibrium. Changing rainfall patterns, constant ebbs and flows of farming populations, and numerous behavioral changes danced an intricate waltz through the centuries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Writing to the farmer's Registeryears later, Craven recalled the sad state of the land. "At that time the whole face of the country presented a scene of desolation that baffles description—farm after farm had been worn out, and washed and gullied, so that scarcely an acre could be found in a place fit for cultivation. . . . The whole of the virgin soil was washed and carried off from the ridges into the valleys."9 Visiting Virginia and Maryland the following year, in 1800, a baffled William Strickland declared that he could not see how the inhabitants scratched a living from their fields." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"If that is impossible, buy them from a farmer's market. Be sure to ask about their use of pesticides and herbicides. For non-vegetarians, buy meat locally from people you know. If that is not possible, buy minimally processed meats, and avoid the meat of animals that were injected with antibiotics and hormones or that were fed animal feces. I was shocked to learn that on some of the big corporate farms, chickens are fed pig feces: this is one of the most disgusting forms of recycling I have ever heard of. Meat from wild game is probably the safest to eat." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Go to a farmer's market. Or, if you can, go to a local farm and buy your food there. See where it comes from. Say hello to the people who grow and raise it. If you're lucky enough to be able to do that, you'd be giving yourself a real gift. In Conclusion So after writing this book, you'd think I'd have a very definite opinion on what the best diet for human beings looks like, wouldn't you? Truth is, there is no perfect diet for humans. The only fact that could reasonably be called a universal truth when it comes to diet is this: The more plant foods, the better." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Propelled to prominence in southern society, Ruffin began publishing farmer's Register, a monthly journal devoted to the improvement of agriculture. The newspaper carried no advertisements and featured practical articles written by farmers. Within a few years Ruffin had more than a thousand subscribers. Eager to compete with the new cotton kingdom emerging out West, South Carolina's newly elected governor James Hammond hired Ruffin to locate and map the state's marl beds in 1842. Ten years later Ruffin accepted the presidency of the newly formed Virginia Agricultural Society." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"I am pretty large myself and so was taken aback by his hulking size and broad farmer's shoulders, yet he is a gentle giant. He teaches algebra at Wasco High and grew up here. His mother and brother farm near Wasco. "Show me what concerns you," I said. We got in his pickup. The first place we visited was a dilapidated area of Wasco, Myreck's Corner, on a bad road where shacks leaned against each other for support. "There are no foundations and a septic tank is shared by everybody. They rent for four hundred a month." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "You can go out and work on the farm, too, and pick food one day on a sort of farmer's holiday. Most require payment in advance, usually starting at about one-half or more shares, which can be a few hundred dollars. Sharry Smith of Tampa, Floria, visited Sweetwater Organic Community Farm once to help nurture her connection with the Earth. She loved it so much that she became its education director. "Sweetwater began with eight acres of prime agricultural land only one mile from Tampa's airport," she said. "Right now about one hundred families belong." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

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