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Tour d'Organics Registration is Now Open!
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Registration for the 2008 Tour d'Organics Sebastopol is now open at our website . Register during 2007 and get this year's prices! As of 2008 event fees will increase as follows: 35 mile - $50... More »
Foodie Facts: Food as Medicine
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Food as medicine. The idea is so simple and profound, yet it’s currently perceived as such a radical notion. “Food as medicine” is found in the title of books, and nutrition programs, and even touted... More »
October Recipes
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Thanks to OA member X-tine Goodreau for this month's recipes! Apple-Beet Salad with Ginger Dressing Serves 2 1 organic Fuji apple 1 fresh beet (apple-sized) fresh arugula leaves Ginger Dressing: 2 TB extra virgin olive... More »
Foodie Facts: An Apple a Day
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Please don’t eat an apple a day— every day--even if it does keep the doctor away. Most apples are strictly a fall-winter season fruit. If you are heeding this folkloric health advice in the... More »
July Recipes
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Thanks to OA member Angela Lucarelli for this month's recipes! Salad Caprese Serves 2 6-½ inch thick slices ripe tomato 6 basil leaves, left whole 1 cup pinenuts 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast 1 tsp extra... More »
You say Tomato, I say Tomahto
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by OA member X-tine Goodreau Some say vegetable and some say fruit. And, some say poisonous, some say aphrodisiac! The tomato is a sweet, yet sour fruit indeed. Loaded with lycopene and folklore, the ubiquitous... More »
June Recipes
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Power salad Makes 2 main-dish salads 2 ears corn, kernels cut from cob 6 radishes, sliced 2 green onions, sliced 1 avocado, ripe, diced 10 cherry tomatoes, halved 12 slices cucumber 2 Tablespoons hempseeds... More »
A cantaloupe is not a cantaloupe
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Melons are sweetly confusing. They hail from Africa, the Middle East and/or India, depending on whom you ask, and the cantaloupe we eat in North America is not cantaloupe. Huh? Let me briefly explain. Some... More »
Salad for Two
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Here's dinner tonight. 3 heads of lettuce, 1 bag of meclun mix, a carrot, some cauliflower, and 1 tomato topped with a dressing of 1 tomato, 2 oranges, 3 sticks of celery, and a handful... More »
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June 2008 