“Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk”

President's Cancer Panel Report, May 2010.

"Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, food grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers…
Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic run-off from livestock feed lots can be minimized by eating free-range meat raised without these medications."

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Fresh Organic Mushrooms


Portabella Mushrooms
$1.40

Shiitake Mushrooms
$2.99


Cremini Mushrooms
$1.15


Fresh Organic Ghee made only on Full and New Moons in accordance to a strict ayurveda tradition

Ghee
$14.85
From Community

Going Green Cleaning Services, Inc

We are proud to have as members  a professional Green cleaning service that is safe, reliable and efficient, using non toxic and eco friendly cleaning products.

Going Green Cleaning Services will provide the pleasure of walking into a freshly cleaned and healthy home and to do it in a way that is safe for you, your family, your pets and the environment.

Their work is 100% guaranteed to be done to your total satisfaction. [...]

From Organic Recipes

Organic Heirloom Tomato Salsa

Summary: Salsa can be made from any type of tomato, these are especially good. Especially in the summer when there is an  abundance of tomatoes

Ingredients

2 pounds organic heirloom tomatoes
1 medium organic red onion
1 cup organic cilantro
1 organic Jalapeno pepper
1 tsp sea salt + more for taste

Instructions

Core the tomato, remove the brown stem part.
Cut off any cruise or blemishes. Chop the tomato until it is well diced. Think how you want it to [...]

From Sustainability

Food Label Glossary

Certified Naturally Grown

Every day we run into new terms for food.  Sometimes there is a new certification, other times its a new way to process or farm the food.  Occasionally its a new “marketing” ploy to get you to buy a particular type of food. It can get very confusing for the conscious eater.

Here are a few terms to help you as you vote with your dollars what types of food you will eat.

Farming Terms

Certification for [...]

From Holistic Food Therapies

Food Therapy

Case Purchases

Our  Case Purchases selection in the store is for diets and therapies that are often sought out by individuals with and without chronic disease for the purpose of supporting and or improving their natural immune system.

The selection  supports:

Raw Food Diets,
Cooked Food Diets
as well as diets that focus on juicing fresh organic foods.

The selection is designed for cancer patients, preventive cancer practitioners, and individuals that require bulk organic food purchases.  Quarter, half, [...]

From Feed Your Brain

Storing Your Organic Fruits

We have been enjoying the fresh organic fruits this summer, especially the local blueberries, peaches, and melons.  Thank you Mirit.  As part II to an earlier post – Storing Your Organic Produce , where I listed how to store vegetables, I would like to share tips and tricks to extend the life of your fresh organic fruits, without plastic.

We have been moving more and more to paper bags for storage in the refrigerator.  You can [...]

From Organic Gardening

COULD BP'S DISPERSANTS CAUSE APOCALYPTIC RAINS?

BIRDS AND VEGETATION ARE DYING…
Widespread Mysterious Crop Damage Near Gulf Oil Spill Area

From Feed Your Brain

Storing your Organic Produce

stored vegetables

We all have the same question.

How do I store the different vegetables or fruits from this weeks Harvest?

Often just putting them in the refrigerator accelerates the problem and they dry out. But we all try to make our fresh organic fruits and vegetables remain that way as long as we can. During Harvest Day we have learned that green leafy plants love to be stored in wet towels with flake ice on top of them, [...]

From Acupuncture

Four Winds Acupuncture

We  want to welcome Four Winds Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine as a new pick up location for Ormond Beach members.

Conveniently located at 115 East Granada Blvd, Suite 1 in Ormond Beach. Starting next Thursday (06/17/2010)Four Winds will be available to members to pick up their fresh organic produce.  Pick up time will be between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm

I have to tell you that you are going to love the setting.  It was immediately [...]

From Organic Recipes

Grilled Organic Veggie Tostadas with Fresh Organic Salsa

Summary: Grilling brings out the natural flavor and sweetness of zucchini, yellow squash, red bell pepper, eggplant and onion in these savory tostadas. Grill whole wheat tortillas  for a crispy base and top with fresh salsa, sliced avocado and a squeeze of lime.

Ingredients

1 pound organic tomatoes, seeded and diced
1/3 cup finely chopped organic cilantro
2 tablespoons organic lime juice
1 teaspoon salt, divided
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground organic black pepper
1 organic jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and finely [...]

From Organic Recipes

Organic Three Cheese Eggplant Parmesan

Summary: If you didn’t know that this was baked instead of fried, you’d never know the difference. By not deep frying the eggplant, which is traditional and soaks up incredible amounts of oil, you decrease calories and fat. Similar to traditional eggplant parmesan, this dish comes out just as bubbly and filled with rich real Italian flavor. Serve with a light organic green salad and don’t forget glass of organic red wine.

Ingredients

2 organic free [...]

From Nutrition

It's the Fiber

Imagine eating 100 grams of fiber a day as you hunt and gather from all manners of roots, berries, leaves and plants. Now, realize that the average American eats about 8 grams of fiber a day while they work their way through a week. It was the fiber that helped our ancestors to stay thin and healthy.

Of course all that walking around and running from “things” that eat you helped too.

Did you know?

Can [...]

From Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Gulf Oil Tracker

I am trying to remain positive about this catastrophic ecological event, but I continue to cry. I do not wish for this blog to become a negative outlet. But I do truly and firmly believe that the DeepWater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill must have our attention and we must pour our hearts, our positive energy and our Spirits into it. Because we must find a deeper meaning to what we [...]

From Nutrition

Blueberries

Flagler Organics has made a great connection with a local organic blueberry producer for Palm Coast, Bunnell and Flagler Beach members.  We are so excited about our first harvest on Tuesday.  We will have hundreds on pounds of fresh organic blueberries, so bring a friend, tell and neighbor and share with everyone this great opportunity to buy fresh organic blueberries below farmer market prices and well below retail.

Blueberries are rich in Vitamins A, C, [...]

From Nutrition

Does Your Diet Prevent Disease?

Today many “foods” we have the option of eating taste great but may have little or no nutritional value. There are many recent studies that show we are actually what we eat. Either we are eating to prevent disease and inflammation or we are not, and I can say from experience that it is not easy. The National Cancer Institute says that 8-10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day can decrease your risk of [...]

From Lifestyle

Organic Coffee

Fresh Brew from LifeThyme Cafe in Palm Coast, City Walk

Some of you already know that we carry fresh organic coffee from The Life Thyme Cafe and Wellness – Anne Marshall and Carola Coopers’ new and wonderfully exciting apothecary, massage and organic coffee cafe in City Walk, Palm Coast.

Believe me you will not find this organic product at the Farmer’s Market or even in your local big industry grocery stores.  We drink coffee and I [...]

From Community

Gulf of Mexico Wildlife & Beach Cleanup

Thank you everyone for generously donating your old sheets, towels and heating pads.  The need for these items is still great.  If you have not heard the news today, the box that was lowered did not work and oil is now beginning to land on the beaches of Alabama.  We will continue collecting these items and sending them to the Gulf of Mexico.  The items can be dropped off of [...]

From Community

Green Winters

Green Winters
A new distribution center location in Ormond Beach for fresh organic produce.

Green Winters is an organic garden center in Ormond Beach with native and edible plants. We are so excited to have found a great location  for pick up and delivery of fresh organic produce.  Green Winters will benefit our members with their selection of native plants and organic garden supplies. We want to thank [...]

From Organic Recipes

“Daddy, let’s have corn and chard soup for dinner tomorrow”

The other night my daughter came home from what must have been a wonderful lesson on nutrition because she wasn’t

interested stir fry  Chinese food, which she loves,   but ate two bowls of salad (red leaf lettuce from share and tons of avocados from share).

She then said, “Daddy, lets have corn and  chard soup tomorrow”.  I had never done it, but we gave it a go.  I used chicken broth as

a base, but certainly vegetable [...]

From Organic Recipes

Zucchini Solutions

A few weeks ago I rendered all of my zucchinis’ nutritional value null by breading it and frying it to death in a vat of oil. The kids loved it. This time I added a little of the unhealthy, while preserving some of the zucchini’s original values. From a suggestion on Facebook, following my last post, I cut the zucchini’s length wise like steak fries. I dipped them in egg and [...]

From Nutrition

Going Bananas?

According to Alternative Medicine practitioners, food is medicine. Each piece of fruit or vegetable that we eat contains certain nutrients & minerals which contribute to our health.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) each food is categorized as warming, cooling, or neutral to the body. For example, when you eat red pepper, a warming food, you feel hotter, maybe your face gets red or you sweat. By [...]

From Feed Your Brain

Taking Local Honey Gets Allergies to Buzz Off

When it comes to preventing or easing seasonal allergies, local honey works far more effectively and safely than the immune-suppressing allergy drugs prescribed by doctors or sold over the counter. It also saves you lots of money. Horticulturist/author Tom Ogren (www.allergyfree-gardening.com) has described local honey as being packed with pollen grains and other nutrients making it one of the most potent immune-system boosters.

How local honey works is similar to homeopathy’s concept of “like cures like.”

Allergies [...]

From Community

New Site for Alternative Health Florida Practitioners

We are very excited about a founding member’s new web site – Alternative Health Florida.  We believe it is a much needed site for alternative health care practitioners who wish to benefit from the marketing experience of an established company like Creative Consulting of Palm Coast, Inc.  And as the names says, they are local and that makes it a big plus for Palm Coast alternative health care practitioners.

The  site will benefit the [...]

From Community

Herbs Workshop at LifeThyme Cafe

Herbs and the Immune System

About the Workshop

During this cold and flu season, come and learn about some of the most important herbs for your immune system.  In this 2 hour class we will look specifically at several herbs and explore the properties and uses of each.  We will learn the basics of herbal tea blending and will blend a tasty immune tea during class.

Anne Marshall BA, LMT

Anne is a [...]

From Sustainability

Seven Organic Predictions for 2010

Did you know that only 1% of all pesticides causes nearly all pesticide-related risks to early childhood development from dietary exposure?

Just one percent is enough to bring on autism, ADHD, birth defects and allergies with the number of children to be impacted by these health disorders on the increase, according to the Organic Center (www.organic-center.org), which released its projections on March 16.

That one percent was #1 of the center’s “Food Safety, Agriculture and Nutrition: 7 [...]

From Organic Recipes

Using beans in an organic kitchen

Organic canned beans are fast and easy to use. For really good beans prepare them from scratch. Its really easy to do, you just need a bit of planning.

First, rinse and sort dried beans, discarding any blemished ones or any grit. Then soak:

* LONG SOAK: Cover dried beans with three times their volume of water and lets stand in refrigerator for 12 hours or overnight. Drain.
* QUICK SOAK: In saucepan, cover dried beans with three [...]