Summer Reading
I was fortunate to have a bright sunny week at the beach last week. I unplugged as best as I could and caught up on some reading. Thanks to a speed reading course I took freshman year in college, I’m a voracious reader. After spending much of my summer in a camp garden, my reading [...]
Continue reading »Eating Weeds
Today for lunch at Ballibay we had weeds in our soup. No joke!
Continue reading »A Camp Food Revolution
The Food Revolution lives on at summer camp! Camp Ballibay would impress the heck out of Jamie Oliver. These campers love good food!
Continue reading »The Best Summer Job
Looking for a great summer job? This opportunity can’t be beat. Camp Ballibay is a magical place and the food is part of that magic. I had the honor of working in the camp kitchen last summer and I’ll be returning this summer to work in the garden and the kitchen. If you’re passionate about [...]
Continue reading »Resilience
re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Resilience. The word keeps surfacing for me lately, it’s become a mantra to help keep [...]
Continue reading »Michelle & Jamie, Let’s Talk About Oil
Things are looking up when it comes to the health of our kids. Two days ago, Michelle Obama announced a comprehensive initiative to end childhood obesity in a generation. The program, Let’s Move includes a broad base of smart ideas, like eliminating food deserts, giving parents better information about food, improving the school lunch program [...]
Continue reading »What’s Cheap Oil Got To Do With It?
I’m not talking about the kind of cheap oil that goes into Girl Scout Cookies and other forms of industrialized junk food. Its the oil that comes out of the ground that I’m thinking about! Created tens of thousands of years ago from prehistoric animals, not cottonseeds or soybeans. After spending the day meeting with [...]
Continue reading »Nutrition Education is Failing Our Kids – It’s Time to Get Our Hands Dirty Instead
Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. ~Chinese proverb The latest research shows that nutrition education is not working! It is ineffective in creating behavior change in getting our kids to eat more veggies. So much time, money and energy has been spent in [...]
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