They say bread is life,
and, sure, bread is good.
But, water …
Water is the stuff life is made of.
More than just a mere thirst quencher,
water is the luscious, liquid basis of our bodies.
It makes up more than half of who we are!
“There just wouldn’t be any you, me, or Fido the dog without the existence of an ample liquid water supply on Earth,” confirms the U.S. Geological Survey. “The unique qualities and properties of water are what make it so important and basic to life.”
Photo by DFID, UK Department for International Development (CC-BY-2.0) via Wikimedia Commons
There’s a craze sweeping the countryside that combines two of the things we love most:
food and friends …
and not necessarily in that order.
The brain-child of five food-lovin’ ladies, Food Swap Network is a growing work of gustatory genius.
So … what’s a food swap?
Say it isn’t so …
Haven’t we been taught that foods sold in the U.S. are basically, for-the-most-part, kinda, somewhat safe?
I mean, that’s what the FDA is for, right?
Hmmm … not exactly.
“For numerous suspicious and disturbing reasons, the U.S. has allowed foods that are banned in many other developed countries into our food supply,” warns nutritionist Mira Calton, who co-authored the new book, Rich Food, Poor Food.
Calton and her husband spent six years traveling the seven continents to investigate food additives and ingredients. From their research, they compiled a list of dubious products that, although forbidden by foreign governments for health reasons, are permitted in foods sold here in the U.S.
Here are the top 13 offenders:
Would you rent a pair of jeans?
Bert van Son is betting that you would.
Bert van who?
He’s a Dutch fellow who owns a trendy clothing company in the Netherlands called Mud Jeans.
Since his website is written in his native tongue, I’ll do my best to translate.
(No, I don’t actually speak Dutch. Fortunately, the grapevine is an English-speaking establishment).
The Lease a Jeans program is designed to help eliminate wasteful clothing production (and wasteful spending).
The gist: instead of owning a pair of jeans indefinitely, you can just keep it for a year before you send it back and move on to something new …
or, at least, new to you.
Image by C. H. Trotter via Wikimedia Commons
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
