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| Links Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) www.pasafarming.org Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO) www.paorganic.org Find a CSA in Your Area! Local Harvest www.localharvest.org Some of Our Favorite Cookbooks: Simply in Season, as well as More With Less and Extending the Table www.worldcommunitycookbook.org (Simple ingredients. Eating mindfully with an awareness of the food needs of neighbors around the world.) From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh, Seasonal Produce www.macsac.org/atoz.html The Green Pages: A Guide to Sustainable Business in Lancaster and York www.fandm.edu/sustain.xml (We're in there! If you know of a business that belongs in there, contact them.) Herbs from the Labyrinth www.herbsfromthelabyrinth.com (Our friend and long-time shareholder Sarah Campbell is an herbalist with a wide range of healing and healthy herbal products. Now sold at Radiance, 9 West Grant Street, Lancaster, PA 17602, (717) 314-3246. As well as Sarah's products, Radiance features Radiant Child Yoga Studio, Therapeutic Massage by Kara, and the Molly Keen Memorial Library.) Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org (A good site on food and agricultural issues. Sign up for their email newsletter. Check out www.organicconsumers.org/Corp/mergers.efm to see which natural and organic products companies are owned by the mega-corporations.) The True Food Shopping Guide www.truefoodnow.org/shoppersguide/guide_printable.html (This is an excellent site with loads of information on whether common products have GMO ingredients.) More to come later. . . |
| What you put ON your body may be as important as what you put IN it. The Environmental Working Group has a site where you can check the safety of the health and beauty products you put on your skin and hair: www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/ |
| Water Safety: The USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program has a page where you can check out the health of your local streams and aquifers: water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ Click on Pennsylvania in the Activities by State box, then click on the Lower Susquehanna River Basins link in the window. |
| Some Interesting Books: Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall Having Faith by Sandra Steingraber Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan In Defense of Food Michael Pollan Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Scroll down for information on the Little Farm Hands Parent & Child Playgarten at nearby Bluesky Farm |
| LITTLE FARM HANDS A Parent & Child Playgarten Come over and play farm! We offer ten acres of land, farm animals, and a fabulous view of the Susquehanna River. Children and their guardians will enjoy healthy imaginative play, baking, and crafting. The land and food are pesticide free. The children's toys are simple, handmade and biodegradable. All natural fiber materials and healthy food provided. Our play garden is ideal for parents/caregivers and their little ones, infants to age six. Our Vision Share the land, enjoy nature, prepare slow food, craft together and practice the ancient art of socialization. Enroll now for Fall sessions. Sessions are five weeks long offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 am to 11:30 am. All sessions are mixed age infants to age six. Sessions require full payment before class begins. Cost per session for a family of one adult and up to two children $200.00 Session I: Little Harvest Days, September 9, 2008 to October 9, 2008 Session II: Little Frosty Days, October 21, 2008 to November 20,2008 Barbara Freiberg was inspired by Waldorf Education when she discovered Rahima Baldwin's book, You Are Your Child's First Teacher and Diana Carey and Judy Large's, FESTIVALS FAMILY AND FOOD. This led her to study Administration and Community Development in Waldorf Schools of North America at Sunbridge College, N.Y. When employed by Waldorf Schools, she was a member of The Council of Teachers, assisting and leading Early Childhood programs in the United States and Great Britain for seventeen years. Her children both graduated from Waldorf schools. She has offered play groups in her home since 1993. This year we are very happy to announce Erin Darby will be assisting! For more information contact Barbara Freiberg at 717-252-0606 or e-mail littlefarmhands@live.com |