pesticides

Your Health: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Author
Jill Grunewald
Holistic Nutrition Coach
Publication Date: 
November 1, 2010
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There was a time in the not too distant past when choosing what to eat was simple. It entailed a jaunt to the garden or orchard and harvesting what was in season or venturing to the cellar for canned green beans or peaches. Meats were processed at the local butcher and cured for longevity. Maybe you traded raspberries for apples with a neighbor.

Resources
Read Up!: 
Food Rules, by Michael Pollan, Penguin Books, 2009.
Nourishing Wisdom, by Marc David, Bell Tower, 1991.
Act Locally!: 
Weston A. Price Foundation Washington, DC 202-363-4394 westonaprice.org
Minnesota Grown St. Paul, MN 651-201-6648 www3.mda.state.mn.us/mngrown

Helping our Bee Pollinators

Author
MARLA SPIVAK
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
Lady Bird Johnson had a great vision.
Footnotes/Endnotes

ON THE WEB!

Michigan State University, nativeplants.msu.edu
/publications.htm#2

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, wildflower.org

Status of Pollinators in North America, nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11761

North American Pollinator
Protection Campaign, nappc.org

Pollinator Conversation Program
xerces.org/Pollinator_Insect_Conservation

Resources on Pollinators,
dels.nas.edu/pollinators

Read Up!

Pollinator Conservation Handbook, by M. Shepherd, SL Buchmann, M. Vaughan, S. Hoffman Black, The Xerces Society, 2003.

Oily Food

Author
STEVEN L. HOPP
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50 Ways To Love Your River

Author
Reprinted from the Oregon Environmental Council
oeconline.org

More and more, people forget the impact they have every day on their rivers. Most clean water regulations focus on reducing pollution from big sources such as factories and sewage treatment plants. Although industry needs to be cleaned up further, it’s time we turned our attention to forestry, agriculture and the behavior of each resident of the watershed.

Rain, Rain, Where Do You Go?

Footnotes/Endnotes
Planting for Clean Water www.bluethumb.org

Friends of the Mississippi River www.fmr.org

Minnesota Associate of Watershed Districts www.mnwatershed.org
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