Nutrition or is Food Medicine? The right food is as important to the body as the right gas is for a car. We have gotten to believe that only a doctor’s prescription for a pharmaceutical is really what is going to make us well when in fact the opposite is often true. Many of us have reactions to pharmaceuticals because although based on plants they have upped the power of the chemical to a point that is often too strong for many of us. Also, the built-in safeguards that a plant-based chemical ... continue reading...

Footehills Farm New Year 2019   When I first started writing the new entry for our blog, I was going to try to write something deep and philosophical about the farm, the forest and our places in them. Instead, since it is a new year, I am going to tell you about our new business plan for the farm – where it came from and where we think it is going to.   When we started building the farm we had the idea of being closer and more in control of our food and building in an ... continue reading...

Taking Action                   For those who read any of our posts on Facebook, you know that they are a mix of advances and retreats, of good and bad news. This missive we are writing is similar because while we cry for Gaia, we celebrate the opportunity we have to take action, however small, to help mitigate the damage that has been, and continues to be, done in the name of “progress and growth”. Over the past 6 years, and since we moved onto the farm and started building it, we have had ... continue reading...