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Hard to beet
My husband swore he wouldn’t eat beets before I prepared them and my brother-in-law is still conflicted about them since an incident with his childhood babysitter. But I love beets and therefore grow lots of them, both red and golden, in my garden each year.
Aug 25th, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
August 17-23
This week: gear up for the 2009 Gay Softball World Series with an art opening at the MKGAC, rock out WMSE's Radio Summer Camp and hit the lakefront for the Milwaukee Wine Festival and Mexican Fiesta.
Aug 17th, 2009 by Erin Petersen
The way it was
Cronkite felt that journalists had a duty to hold up a mirror to society, to tell and show what had happened. “And that’s the way it was,” was his customary sign-off.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Take it with a grain of salt, pt2
Be aware that some over-the-counter medicines contain a lot of sodium. Two tablets of dissolvable Alka-Seltzer have a whopping 1,134 milligrams of sodium.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Greening our schools
Sustainability is all about those wonderful virtues we grew up with; giving without expecting to get back, finding enlightenment even from your mistakes, sharing the knowledge, recording the failures as well as the successes, implementing and reflecting and doing it again.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Eating right
"Eat Right Racine” was formed earlier this year, and its mission is to “partner with community, business, agriculture, and schools to develop a food system that supports healthy children, communities, economies and environment.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Natural Gardner
August and September are payoff time for vegetable growers. However, this is the time when hot and humid conditions promote insect or disease problems; so keep monitoring plants.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Yes we can
…cooking or canning tomatoes actually increases the amount of lycopene – a super anti-oxidant that’s shown to protect against certain types of cancer.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Parents push for nutritious school lunches
I realized that there were more standards in place for dog food than there were for our own kids
Aug 1st, 2009 by Liz Setterfield
Growing the next generation of green leaders
Shenstone is very excited about her future and says Green Corps has prepared her well to assume other environmentally-focused posts.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
News you need to know
We are fighting for food security from an industrial agriculture system that is destroying our health and the health of our ecosystems; for a connection to (the) cycle of life, and good, tasty food … from garden to plate.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
Puppy love
When not galloping in figure-eights around the backyard, she was collapsed in her bed, head hanging off the edge, a fine thread of drool hanging from one floppy lip.
Aug 1st, 2009 by Malcolm McDowell Woods
