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Yesterday's Food: A Conversation With My Grandma | My maternal grandmother is an active and healthy 91 year old. Her secret? Eating as naturally as possible. She attributes her longevity and good health to the natural, home-grown, and locally-sourced foods of her childhood. Recently I visited with her about her growing up years on a small farm in the 1920s. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Yesterday’s Food: A Conversation With My Grandma

Easy Homemade Essential Oil Deodorant | I've tried so many deodorant alternatives I can't even count them all. Then I found this one: an easy homemade essential oil deodorant that meets all of my expectations: it smells good, it works (even combating stress-sweat, intense exercise, and hot, humid summer days), it’s economical, it doesn’t stain my clothing, and I feel great about the ingredients. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Easy Homemade Essential Oil Deodorant

Is It Possible To Heal From Multiple Chemical Sensitivities? | Teresa suffered for years but doctors told her there was nothing wrong (yet she would probably be on prescription medications for the rest of her life!). After research of her own, she found out that she had multiple chemical sensitivities and embarked on her own healing journey with alternative health care and whole foods. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/86

Is It Possible To Heal From Multiple Chemical Sensitivities? (KYF086)

Why We Love Cast Iron | My husband asked about the black specks in the mashed potatoes. "Oh, that's just my frying pan. The non-stick coating is wearing away." Then he brought home a box of old cast iron pans from a garage sale. I ignored them as long as I could, but now? I'm the biggest fan ever -- here's why we love cast iron. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Why We Love Cast Iron

Root Veggie Tartiflette | This happy accident started when I was trying to use up a few extra root vegetables. It's not a stew. It's sort of a casserole. But it is comfort food: homey and rustic. This tartiflette (a traditional French dish) includes root vegetables, which are high in antioxidants, fiber, and essential minerals. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Root Vegetable Tartiflette

What's Right for Your Family: GAPS or Traditional Foods? | The Traditional Foods Movement has been an impressive agent of change in thousands of people’s lives. Out of this movement have come many heroes: WAPF, Paleo, Primal, GAPS, AIP, Grain-Free, etc. But what are the differences? And what is right for your family? | GNOWFGLINS.com

What’s Right for Your Family: Traditional Foods or GAPS?

Hills of Shiloh Farm | We’re heading down home… to your farms! Urban, suburban, or rural -- whatever you’re growing and doing, we want to see it. This time you get to meet Leslie, Ken, and Nathan, who are growing heirloom vegetables and fruit plus raising chickens, ducks, goats and cattle on 15 acres in Vermont. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Hills of Shiloh Farm

More Urban Farming with Greg Peterson (plus free webinar) | One of our most popular guests, Greg Peterson is back for the third time. He's been inspiring others and practicing urban farming on his 1/3 acre city lot for 25 years. We're talking more about The Urban Farm (his home), the concepts of "food miles" and seasonal eating, plus he is inviting you to a free webinar on urban farming. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/85

More Urban Farming with Greg Peterson (plus free webinar) (KYF085)

Homemade Bread in the Sun Oven | Baking bread in a sun oven is so easy -- it yields bread with a nicely browned crust and a moist, soft inside, plus keeps your house from getting too warm in the summer and saves electricity. Plus, you get to pull up a chair and read a bit while it bakes! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Homemade Bread in the Sun Oven

10 Easy Ways to Pack More Fermented Foods in Your Child's Lunch | Fermented foods pack a nutritional punch for any meal. But, what to pack and how to provide variety? Here's how to make the most of your child's school lunch with fermented foods -- without adding lots of prep time. | GNOWFGLINS.com

10 Easy Ways to Pack More Fermented Foods in Your Child’s Lunch

Roasted Corn, Tomato, Sweet Onion, and Salmon Salad | Summer may be officially over, but in most areas of the country the late season harvest is still in full bloom. This delicious recipe isn't a light salad, but a satisfying, nutrient-dense mixture of ingredients that touches on all the taste points of the culinary palette. In other words, it's da bomb dot com! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Roasted Corn, Tomato, Sweet Onion, and Salmon Salad with Creamy Herb Dressing

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?

Homespun Seasonal Living | Lover of glass jars and honey bees, Kathie embraces seasonal living in the Flathead Valley of Montana. She's a writer and teacher and shares her love of simple living and creativity both locally and online at her blog, Homespun Seasonal Living. Get to know Kathie through this podcast. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/84

Homespun Seasonal Living (KYF084)

A Chicken Coop in the Making (Granary Turned Coop) | We remodeled an old granary into a chicken coop nearly three years ago. To be honest, there's not much that we would change or do differently. It has happily housed so many of our egg-laying friends that I thought I'd show you what we did, why we did it, and what we changed. | GNOWFGLINS.com

A Chicken Coop in the Making (Granary Turned Coop)

Chai Chocolate Chip Ice Cream | While autumn is definitely imminent, summer is still going full force for at least half of the time. And believe me, there is no desire for hot drinks or baked goods on those hot days. Thankfully I came up with a solution: fall-infused iced treats! | GNOWFGLINS

Chai Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This is my story... what's yours? | Coming out of high school, I was all about “healthy living” -- except I had no idea what healthy was. I exercised excessively and ate low-fat vegetarian. I lived by and obsessed over an unhealthy desire to be stick thin. I chased after accolades and accomplishments. The cost was high. Here's my story... what's yours? | GNOWFGLINS.com

This is my story… what’s yours?

Tips for Growing Fall Vegetables | One of the best ways to settle into growing your own food is to change your perspective on the growing season. Gardening is not just a summer activity. Depending on your zone, gardening is something that can happen year round. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Tips for Growing Fall Vegetables

KYF #083: Getting Your Spouse on Board with Erica Mueller | Though she was raised on from-scratch cooking and whole foods, Erica Mueller's journey started all over again once she got married. Her husband was not on board, so they started with baby steps and won him over bit by bit. And now, Erica and her husband both feel strongly that their boys should grow up knowing and loving the taste of real food. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/83

Getting Your Spouse on Board with Erica Mueller (KYF083)