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Farm Food Update #2

By Katja Swift

Well, it’s the middle of the month, and this project has been quite a project so far! With all the snow, things have gone not quite the way we expected, but we’ve gotten through. Our Meat CSA delivery from Chestnut Farm was delayed again due to Snowpocalypse: The Return of the Revenge Part 4, so…

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Coconut Treats

By Katja Swift

I was just writing to a client about ways to increase coconut oil in her diet, and I thought I should share with the class. A lot of people enjoy coconut oil in savory dishes, such as eggs or chicken, but I really don’t, so I’ve come up with some other ways to get my…

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February Food Project Update: Week One

By Katja Swift

The first week of our Farm Food February project has been very successful, and very enlightening! Also, challenging.

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Farm Food February

By Katja Swift

Each year, our students do projects related to food, lifestyle, sleep, and more. All of our students do these projects, though they vary slightly from group to group. We do them each year too, different projects with different groups so that we can be in solidarity with each of them. When the Second Year students…

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Motivation to Succeed

By Katja Swift

Whether you’re an herbalist or a parent (or a teacher, or anyone who works to educate and motivate people!), motivating the people you work with to succeed is often the hardest part. You can research all the best answers, you can compile great masses of data, you can even get your client to agree that…

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Herbalism and the Law: The Practice of Medicine in Massachusetts

By Ryn Midura

The most common way an herbalist can find herself in a court of law is by appearing, intentionally or unknowingly, to be practicing medicine without a license; the evidence against the herbalist in cases of this nature tends to hinge on the use of certain restricted terms. (Roger Wicke has written an extensive and expertly-argued…

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Phoenix Cookies

By Katja Swift

Tonight, we’re teaching our Food Allergies for the Holidays class – we teach it every year, but every year the recipe list gets longer as we come up with more and more delicious holiday treats!

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Tapeworm? No problem!

By Katja Swift

Our dog… You know, some people love fine wines. Some people appreciate fancy truffle oil. Our dog, she loves goose poop. I don’t know what it is, but she seems to think it is the tastiest of all delicacies. Yuck. And of course, here in Boston, there’s no shortage of goose poop. Which makes Elsie…

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Tea of the Month: April

By Katja Swift

You can tell a lot about a person from what’s in their teacup. Here’s a peek into ours!

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Muffin Madness!

By Katja Swift

Love muffins? Tired of eggs and bacon for breakfast? Committed to sticking to your paleo* diet? Then you, my friend, have come to the right place.

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