St Louis Sources
Saturday Sources: Three Rivers Community Farm - CSA
My ideas about healthy food have evolved over the years. In the fall of 2006 my new neighbor introduced me to a farmer’s market that sold produce and meats from local farmers. I found it to be an amazing thing to meet those farmers and speak to them about their practices and begin to get to know them. I loved the fresh produce and the new foods that we tried. This was certainly a step up from shopping at Whole Foods. At about that same time I became aware...
Saturday Sources: Summer Sources of Local Food
Hello everyone. As you know I am a big fan of the real food movement in St. Louis and a big part of that is shopping to get as much of my food as possible from local farmers. This can be a bit more work than just running out to the closest grocery store when you need an ingredient but we find it to be worth it. Thankfully here in St. Louis we do have lots of choices for sources for local, in season, products from nearby farms. Farmer’s...
Saturday Sources: Brick City Farm
It has been a while since my last installment of Saturday Sources but I have several local farms lined up for interviews over the upcoming weeks and months. Here is one that you can help get off the ground right now by contributing to their Kickstarter! ~PattyLA Brick City Farm is a new urban farm coming to the South City area of St. Louis. I had a chance to chat with Joanna Landis about this new venture and I’m excited to share these details with you here today! Below...
Saturday Sources Traveling Tea
Today’s interview is with Kateri of Traveling Tea. Traveling Tea is a local business in St. Louis that is dedicated to tea. She sells a wide variety of teas of all varieties and flavors. Most of her teas are organic and many are also fair trade. My family has enjoyed many of her teas over the past several years. Her peach is a particular favorite of my husbands. I hope you will enjoy learning a bit more about Kateri and her company Traveling-Tea. Even if you aren’t local to...
Saturday Sources: Hanley Fold Farm Goats Milk Soap
Today edition of Saturday Sources is a bit different from the past couple. Instead of a producer of an edible product today I am interviewing Anne of Hanley Fold Farm. Hanley Fold Farm produces and sells goats milk soap as well as lotion bars and lip balm. I will admit that I have a particular weakness for homemade soap. If you haven’t tried it you really should. It is so much more moisturizing than anything I have ever purchased commercially. There is one other distinct difference. These are available...
Saturday Sources: The Farmer’s Larder
Well things don’t always go as you planned. My life got so busy that this series fell by the wayside for a bit but here is another installment. I have been purchasing meat products from The Farmer’s Larder since the first year that they were at “my” farmer’s market, Tower Grove Farmer’s Market. I was more than a little excited when I first discovered that their kielbasa was sweetened only with honey! That was an early product that we grew to love. Another favorite is their smoked ham hocks. I...
Saturday Sources: Missouri Grassfed Beef
This is my second edition of Saturday Sources and I am pleased to have an interview with Jeremy Parker of Missouri Grassfed Beef. I have been getting my beef from Jeremy of Missouri Grassfed Beef for several years. I love the good relationship I have with him and so many of the farmers that I purchase from regularly. I know he is passionate about what he does so I wanted to ask him some questions to share with all of you. Even if you aren’t local to us here...
Saturday Sources: Week1- Winter Sources
Today is my first edition of Saturday Sources (yes I am aware that it is actually Sunday. Sometimes that happens.) Over the next few months I hope to highlight different farmers and producers in the St. Louis area for you to learn more about them. Most of these posts will be interviews. Next week will be an interview with my Grassfed Beef Farmer. For my first edition, however, I want to talk about our opportunities here in St. Louis to get local food and products in the winter. We...
Have you visited a Salt Room?
Have you heard of Halotherapy? What about a Salt room? No? I hadn’t either until this summer. It just so happens that I am a very lucky American to have a Salt room in my vicinity. There are more opening up all the time so you just might be too. I have tried to find a comprehensive listing of salt rooms around the country to include on here but I can’t seem to find one. Sorry you will have to google it for your own area yourself. Here I...
Acupuncture
I have used acupuncture extensively in my healing journey. I realize that many are not familiar with this ancient healing art and how much it can do for you. Acupuncture is one piece of an ancient medical approach referred to as Traditional Chinese Medicine. TCM involves various methods of assessing the health of the body through examining the tongue, face, pulse and symptoms. Treatment usually involves some combination of herbs, diet changes and acupuncture sessions. Not everyone will get every treatment every time and different practitioners seem to favor one approach...
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