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Spring into Action with Renewed Energy
The sun has returned! And, as natural living beings, it is normal for us to feel a breathlike resurgence of energy. Spring is the time of...
knease1
Apr 5, 20243 min read
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Medicinal Herbs that are Heart Healthy
As we ease into February, our chilly winter landscapes are often dappled with shiny pink hearts and requests to be a loved one’s...

Blair Doucette
Feb 7, 20244 min read
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A Recipe for Health
This time of year, you’re probably busy adding cinnamon to everything and decking halls left and right with boughs of holly. But did you...

Blair Doucette
Dec 8, 20235 min read
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Sourdough Health Benefits for the Holiday Season
Sourdough has so many health benefits, if not just for your physical health, perhaps for your mental health.

Blair Doucette
Nov 14, 20235 min read
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Fuel for Fall
Thinking up an autumn dreamscape can, by itself, conjure up cozy feelings of crisp evenings, golden sunshine, and the smell of leaves...

Blair Doucette
Oct 30, 20237 min read
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Here’s To Another Growing Season – Reaping The Rewards of Community Supported Growth.
First impressions are everything. And our forward face is a little friendlier than most. Just beyond the threshold of Chickahominy Falls,...
knease1
Oct 13, 20233 min read
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Medicinal Herbs for your Back to School Journey
Navigating the maze-like hallways of a new school year’s social and physical well-being can be a bit tricky. Our favorite young scholars...

Blair Doucette
Sep 6, 20237 min read
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Beat The Heat & Ban The Burn - A Natural Sunscreen Recipe
We’re exposing ourselves to more harmful UVA rays while thinking we’re staying protected. Additionally, most chemical sunscreen

Blair Doucette
Jul 11, 20234 min read
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Raw Milk: A Controversial Health Food + Recipes
The Controversy On Raw Milk: Around the turn of the 20th-century Tuberculosis (TB) rates, along
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Jun 14, 202310 min read
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Seed Between The Lines With Companion Planting
Companion planting is the practice of sowing different plant species within close proximity in an effort to utilize different beneficial fea

Blair Doucette
Apr 5, 20233 min read
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Celebrate the Spring Equinox with These Healthy Recipes
March 20th - the vernal equinox - marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere.
bdoucette7
Mar 9, 20237 min read
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5 Nourishing Recipes for Spring Transition
Though it's not technically spring according to our calendars, we're knee-high in spring energy. The perennial buds that make their debut ev

Blair Doucette
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Combat Stress: Easy Natural Tips
It’s somehow two-thirds of the way through January, as we dive into the new year, the weather is changing, the holidays are behind us, oh...

Blair Doucette
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Bask in the Forest
Forest bathing, or shinrin yoku, is a therapeutic practice that originated in Japan in the 1980s and is now being utilized stateside for its

Blair Doucette
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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Sleep Hygiene: Tips and Tricks
Sleep hygiene is basically establishing a healthy bedtime routine that is conducive to falling and staying asleep. Here are some

Blair Doucette
Jan 5, 20234 min read
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Self-Care this Winter
We’re incredibly lucky here in the part of the commonwealth where the rolling Piedmont meets the gentle Coastal region to keep us fairly pro

Blair Doucette
Dec 19, 20225 min read
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How Mindfulness Can Help Diabetes
Many of us know by now that mindfulness practices, like yoga and meditation, have positive health benefits. But if you’re like me, you might
bdoucette7
Dec 1, 20222 min read
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Your Winter Herbal Cupboard
Now, as the daylight hours crawl into bed earlier and the fields hunker down for the winter, we find ourselves nestling in with a blanket or
bdoucette7
Nov 21, 20224 min read
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Fall on the Farm & Ways to Stay Healthy
We’re so fortunate to live where we do, with easy access to the city and a major interstate that could get us just about anywhere, yet tucke

Blair Doucette
Nov 15, 20223 min read
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The Many Health Benefits of Art
We nourish ourselves and our families through the meals that we serve at home, we build memories by hosting events at home, and now there is
bdoucette7
Nov 4, 20223 min read
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