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Lee Burdett

About Lee Burdett

Lee holds a Masters in Music Education from Florida State and was a band director in her past life. Married to her college sweetheart for over 26 years, she has been homeschooling their two children for the last 9 years. A lifelong foodie, her real food journey got a kickstart when her sister took her to hear Sally Fallon speak on Nourishing Traditional Foods in 2007. Together with her sister, she produced a DVD on making nourishing traditional breads using the soaked flour method. Today Lee is co-leader of her local WAPF chapter, and teaches about real food and alternative health topics to her local community. She is busy pulling out the shrubs from her home in the suburbs of Orlando and replacing them with edible landscaping. She also blogs at Well Fed Family, shares videos on the Well Fed Family YouTube channel, and interacts on all the usual social media networks: Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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How are our bodies equipped to handle toxins? What can we do to help our bodies detox? How can we find holistic dentists to assist in safe amalgam removal? Is healing cavities naturally possible? These are the questions I'll tackle in the third part of our discussion on mercury in American dental practices.

Mercury Detoxification & Healing Cavities Naturally

Does long-term, chronic exposure to low doses of mercury vapor pose any risks? What might the health effects be? And, are there any subsets of our population who might have greater sensitivity to mercury? These are the questions we will answer in this continuation of our discussion on mercury amalgam fillings.

4 Factors That Determine How Severely Amalgam Fillings Affect Your Health

'Will you do a post about amalgam fillings and curing tooth decay? What do you think about biological dentistry? How can I find a dentist with a holistic practice?' asks Michelle A. To begin, let's talk about the historical uses of mercury and what various countries are doing today, as well as the FDA's confusing response to mounting evidence against the safety of mercury in dental fillings.

The Historical Uses Of Mercury & Its Use In Dentistry Today

Sausage... A gourmet delicacy, yet it is the essence of nose-to-tail farm frugality. Nothing goes to waste when all the scraps and small pieces of meat are used to make sausage. Salting, smoking, fermenting, and drying are all ways to preserve meat for longer without refrigeration. Sausage made at home from the best local, pastured meats, mixed with tons of wholesome flavor, avoids all the chemicals found in processed meats.

Homemade Italian Sausage

In 1942, the entire world's supply of antibiotics amounted to only 64 pounds. Today, over 60 million pounds of antibiotics are used in the United States each year. Antibiotic-resistant infections are now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Why has this happened, and are there antibiotic alternatives that work?

Explaining Antibiotic Resistance + Natural Alternatives That Work!

Kombucha can be expensive to purchase, but it costs just pennies to make at home! Once you get the hang of it, it's time to experiment with flavorings. Here are 5 fun spiced and fruit flavorings for Fall.

5 Kombucha Flavors {for Fall}

It isn't herbal supplements, it isn't vitamins, it isn't magic. At its simplest, homeopathy stimulates the body's innate healing ability. What it is, how it works, and your other burning questions about homeopathy... answered.

Homeopathy On Your Homestead

As the fresh tomato season wears on, you find that you've exhausted your family's patience with all. those. tomatoes. So make sauce! You'll use up several pounds of tomatoes at a time, plus sauce freezes well and cans for long-term storage. This sauce includes healing bone broth!

Fresh Tomato Sauce with Healing Broth

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot | “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” --Wendell Berry. Just like everything else, it’s a journey beginning at your own front door. Here are a few ideas to help you Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot in your own home, neighborhood, and town. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot: The Four Rs of Conservation

Compound Butter {butter gets dressed up!} | If you’ve ever had honey butter, you’ve had compound butter. Compound butters are easy to make and they freeze well so they're handy whenever you need a quick flavor boost, an easy sauce, or a way to dress up simple food for company. Here are a myriad of flavor combinations and ideas for using them. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Compound Butter {Butter Gets Dressed Up!}

Raw Milk Q&A | Switching to raw milk is a good starting place for many newly health-conscious families. I went to one raw milk-producing family farm, Fall Creek Farms in TN, to ask important questions: Is it safe? Is it from a good source? How long does it last? Why is it more expensive? and more! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Raw Milk Q & A

Cajun food focuses on local ingredients found in the bayous and river delta, and (unsurprisingly) their menus feature fish and seafood quite often. Like catfish, which ranks high on the list of comfort foods for many a Southerner who grew up catching them, rolling them in cornmeal, and frying them. I use eleven different seasonings in my custom spicy blend! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Cajun Catfish + Homemade Cajun Seasoning

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods | Fresh lemons and spicy ginger... Those are the scents drifting over my writing area right now. I love my essential oils, and I love my cool mist diffuser humming along beside me. I've learned and discovered so much about essential oils and diffusion over the last few years -- and am eager to share! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Essential Oil Diffusion Methods

Once upon a time, "seasonal eating" applied to everything -- not just spring onions, summer berries, or fall pumpkins. Meats were seasonal, too. Pork was most plentiful in winter when the cold temperatures insured proper hog butchering conditions. Here's a winter pork roast, where you can make use of whatever winter vegetables you've got on hand. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Pork Roast with Winter Vegetables

12 Health Secrets From A Real Food Pioneer | At Wise Traditions 2014, the annual conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell (president of the organization) shared her own 12 health secrets at the closing ceremonies. Here they are -- you'll want to make a note of these because they will make a huge impact on your health. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

12 Health Secrets From A Real Food Pioneer (Sally Fallon Morell)

Pear and Pumpkin Crisp | A craving for the fall flavors of pear, pumpkin, and spices inspired this crisp. The filling is an unusual combination of sweet pears with chunks of tender pumpkin wrapped in a spicy maple syrup. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Pear and Pumpkin Crisp

How To Start A Bulk Food Co-Op | Individuals and families can harness the power of buying in bulk by joining other like-minded people to form a private buying club. In other words, a bulk food co-op. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Start A Bulk Food Co-Op

Going Gluten-Free: Fad or Necessity? | I went gluten-free a little over a year ago. Since then I've heard gluten-free eating called a "craze" that lacks common sense, hurts the wheat industry, and randomly condemns an entire food group. Is gluten-free eating a fad -- or is it a necessity? After intense soul-searching and research, here is my answer to this question. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Going Gluten-Free: Fad or Necessity?