by Maureen Turner | Aug 5, 2010 | Wellness
The 36th annual summer conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association—to be held August 13 to 15 at UMass-Amherst—will kick off with a Raw Milk Symposium, featuring talks by two leading experts in the field. Sally Fallon Morell, founder of the...
by Jim Motavalli | Aug 5, 2010 | Wellness
The American media circus has moved on, the drugstores are removing the “H1N1 Vaccinations Available Here” signs, and most people are engaged with other concerns. Like SARS, avian flu and hantavirus, swine flu is yesterday’s scare. But perhaps...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 2, 2010 | Wellness
Winton Pitcoff offers a detailed list of reasons he’s a fan of raw milk, beginning with perhaps the most basic one: “Well, it tastes really good. You start there,” he says. “A lot of people don’t know what real milk tastes like, because...
by Samantha Presnal | Oct 7, 2010 | Wellness
Thanks to technology, kids today can do almost anything—virtually, that is. Once they sign into cyberspace, the rules and boundaries of the real world blur as quickly as a screen saver. Mom always said don’t play ball in the house—unless...
by Molly M. Ginty | Nov 4, 2010 | Wellness
When she looks at her suburban street, Geri Barish sees cancer. She believes it’s under her feet, in the soil that came from a landfill and has been sprayed with pesticides. She believes it’s overhead, in the electric transformers that hang from telephone...
