Vegans and vegetarians are often asked about protein and iron, as if getting enough of these two nutrients was inextricably complex. In reality, eating protein and iron rich foods without eating meat is child’s play compared to ensuring adequate intake of certain nutrients, especially omega 3 fatty acids. When your job is all about whole, […]

Click here to read the first part of this interview with Monica Walker, health practitioner in Portland, Oregon, and visit her website: http://www.ourwholebody.com/ Joanna Steven: I love what you say about empathizing; it reminds me of John Gottman’s book How to Raise an Emotionally Intelligent Child. We don’t often realize that children can become very […]

I met Monica Walker on the local Weston A. Price Foundation mailing list in Portland. While many of my clients are vegans, my interest in nutrition and optimal health does not allow me to wear blindfolds. If I can learn from someone’s work, it’s my duty to study it. I learned many things from Weston […]

Monsanto has done a very good job of convincing others that Genetic Modification is our salvation, that it will eliminate the need for pesticides and herbicides, and will ensure that we will have continuous supplies of food as our ingredients will be, essentially, indestructible until they reach our plate. I felt it was important to […]

Back when we lived in Iowa, and did not have a lot of child-centered activities in town, we would take Franklin to the public library for new books to read to him. He loved it, and it gave me a chance to check out the “New Books” section for something I could read while Franklin […]

I met Mandi at a Waldorf playgroup in Ames, Iowa. I was feeling so lonely and isolated there that I looked for like-minded people with kids about Frank’s age, and found her. There she was, at the first playgroup meeting, with a 2 week old baby who was birthed unassisted (because the midwife didn’t get […]

Conventional Wisdom recommends iron supplementation for all infants older than 6 months. The most common form of supplementation is rice cereal — that’s right, refined, usually not organic, rice cereal, a food that has so little nutrition within it it is basically a carrier for minerals added later on. In addition, the iron in rice […]