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There’s a great piece on MSNBC this week about all the horrible things we went through as kids that OUR kids will never have to survive.
It says if you grew up in the fifties, sixties or seventies, you’re pretty darn lucky to have made it out alive. What with chomping on the lead painted bars of your cribs and the family tanning sessions in the backyard, some of us are pretty screwed.
So what was missing from the article? Continue reading »
So this whole farm share thing is working out better than I expected it to. I actually managed to use almost everything this week. It also looks cool, at least the last box did. Very colorful.
Here’s how it went down: Continue reading »
Today on Babble:
“Dream It/Do It: Eco-Friendly Baby Gear”
By Tracy Chait.
Cheap and indulgent ways for new parents to go green.
Read it here.
The words “Manhattan” and “Farm” don’t go together in my mind. So when I heard that there was a FarmShare that offered deliver to The Big Apple, I was skeptical.
After some soul searching (more like gut-searching, as in examining my ever-expanding waistline), I decided that I was willing to give it a try. We went whole hog — which is just an expression, because there’s no bacon involved — and got vegetables, farm fresh eggs, and fruit. Continue reading »
They say that if your budget can’t handle All Organic All the Time, the one most important thing to buy organic for your kids is milk. And yet, at $6 per gallon, it’s a tough one, even if the rest of the cart is full of bargains. I know I’m grateful for the not-organic-but-not-quite-conventional option of No Hormones/No Antibiotics milk myself, and that–at roughly half the price of organic–is what my family drinks.
And yet, I can’t help but feel for the family dairies that are suddenly seeing red after making the difficult and expensive switch to organic milk production.
For example, Continue reading »
They try so hard to keep their kids healthy, but parents in New York City say all those organic lunches and fruit salad snacks are losing out to the lure of the ice cream truck. Continue reading »
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