CSA: Foraging at Paisley Farm
One of the added benefits of joining a CSA is the ability to pay a visit to the farm where your food will be grown. Mine, Paisley Farm in Tivoli, NY, just decided…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 9
Here we are at week nine, and every time I tell people what I am doing they are still fascinated, scared, interested — in general, I still get a huge mixed ball of…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 8
After I got over our decision to add in fish (fish oil for me, raw fish for Cameron), the journey was back on. It was just another week of otherwise raw organic vegan-ness,…
Crafting a New Food System
Most of us in the Western world do not really eat food anymore, instead consuming what Michael Pollan calls food-like substances, engineered by food scientists to provide maximum “nutrition” (read calories) at minimum…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 7
Proteins… the word of the week. Where were we going to find more proteins at a cheaper price and in the volume we needed? A source that benefited both of our blood types,…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 6
We had finally arrived at week six, and it was time to pick up our first CSA box of delicious organic goodness. Cameron and I arrived a bit early to make sure we…
Community Supported Agriculture
Living in a big city, it is very easy to have no relationship whatsoever with the food that we eat every day. We go to the grocery store, the deli or the bodega…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 5
Another week of expensive taste! Where did we go wrong again? Well, after analyzing more into our diet, suddenly a lightbulb went off. The majority of the recipes we made were based out…
Kicking the Beauty Habit
Like most girls out there who read women’s magazines and joyfully shop at Sephora, I had an enormous cabinet filled with beauty products — smoothing, clearing, slimming, tightening, anti-wrinkling, cooling, warming, you name…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 4
Sometimes correcting a problem is best with baby steps. Week four was all about learning from week three, correcting our mistakes and building on that learning process. Although, when we compensated for the…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 3
Hmmm, how to start the story of week 3? How about, expensive! The third week was indeed a bit pricey, but let me go into greater detail on why it was. Chugging right…
90 Days of Organic Raw Vegan-ness: week 2
It’s week two and I still firmly believe the key to success is the preparation of food. I have several examples to prove my theory. One super example is that of my best…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
