Healing Through Nature
What does it mean to have the corner office with a big window? It’s the office that comes with a promotion and title. But why is the window so important? A host of researchers from architecture to...
View Article“The Farmer’s Flu Shot”
The day was cool against the skin, yet warm enough to adapt to as I moved about. Moisture hung in the air as a thin fog hovered in the tree branches at Moon Valley Farm, owned by Grace MacNeil her...
View ArticleGet Ready to Dance
This past week I was browsing in a store with my daughter as the rain and sixty degree temperatures were rapidly falling — snow was predicted. After just a few moments at a clothing rack I heard a...
View ArticleThe Promise and Perils of Cannabis
The wind-swept land is barren, stark and beautiful with wide expanses and long roads leading over and into the horizon. This is a land that can struggle to grow anything and everything, whether it is...
View ArticleOwning Life and Mining Death
Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman does not conjure the image of a thief. Bowman, at 75 years old, is not unlike most farmers in this area of southern Indiana growing grains and soybeans. What is...
View ArticleFreedom for the Hoosier CAFO?
With a few exceptions the passage of Indiana Senate Bill No. 373 will make taking unauthorized photographs, video recordings or motion pictures of operations at manufacturing or farming businesses now...
View ArticleNine Steps to Reclaim the Desert
Predictions in the agriculture sector may negatively affect what is on your plate and in your wallet. As weather patterns continue to change, now is the time to consider planting a garden. Or be...
View ArticleAnaphylaxis and the Hidden Ingredient
It could be in your cosmetics or in the food you eat. Although once considered a rare food allergen, the numbers are growing of those who are allergic to sesame and the products that are derived from...
View ArticleSoil Bacterium: The New Superhero?
Last year after learning about arsenic contamination in rice, I stopped eating all rice. Now I eat it in very small amounts, and mostly organic and brown unless I am eating out where these are not...
View ArticleDisease and Subtle Corruption
A Question: How is your gut microbiome? In the past few months I have learning more about the gut than I thought I ever wanted to know. And as harsh as the word can sound, it’s actually more like an...
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