Organic Families

  When you walk into a cafe on a hot day to buy a refreshing smoothie the last thing you want to see is a menu with foreign ingredients as optional add-ins. Spirulina, wheatgrass, lucuma, guarana, mesquite, maca root…where’s the translator when you need one? Don’t let these words send you running to the nearest vending [...]

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Charlie Barra is the 83-year-old proprietor of Barra of Mendocino, a winery producing organic grapes in Northern California’s Redwood Valley. He purchased the land in 1954, and planted new vines the next year. As a California winemaker for over 60 years, he’d be a legend just for longevity if nothing else. But Barra has also [...]

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You better stop picking up oysters at last call at that shady bar in the bad side of town, because they’re filthy dirty. Global warming may be to blame for a new rash of the herpes virus wiping out Pacific oysters.

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