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Are Your Mind and Body Connected for the Best Health Benefits?
The mind-body connection: Perhaps we’ve all heard about the importance of the mind-body connection for what feels like forever. But, if...
knease1
Mar 19, 20245 min read
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Medicinal Herbs that are Heart Healthy
As we ease into February, our chilly winter landscapes are often dappled with shiny pink hearts and requests to be a loved one’s...
Blair Doucette
Feb 7, 20244 min read
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A Recipe for Health
This time of year, you’re probably busy adding cinnamon to everything and decking halls left and right with boughs of holly. But did you...
Blair Doucette
Dec 8, 20235 min read
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Sourdough Health Benefits for the Holiday Season
Sourdough has so many health benefits, if not just for your physical health, perhaps for your mental health.
Blair Doucette
Nov 14, 20235 min read
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Fuel for Fall
Thinking up an autumn dreamscape can, by itself, conjure up cozy feelings of crisp evenings, golden sunshine, and the smell of leaves...
Blair Doucette
Oct 30, 20237 min read
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Medicinal Herbs for your Back to School Journey
Navigating the maze-like hallways of a new school year’s social and physical well-being can be a bit tricky. Our favorite young scholars...
Blair Doucette
Sep 6, 20237 min read
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Raw Milk: A Controversial Health Food + Recipes
The Controversy On Raw Milk: Around the turn of the 20th-century Tuberculosis (TB) rates, along
bdoucette7
Jun 14, 202310 min read
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Seed Between The Lines With Companion Planting
Companion planting is the practice of sowing different plant species within close proximity in an effort to utilize different beneficial fea
Blair Doucette
Apr 5, 20233 min read
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Celebrate the Spring Equinox with These Healthy Recipes
March 20th - the vernal equinox - marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere.
bdoucette7
Mar 9, 20237 min read
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Combat Stress: Easy Natural Tips
It’s somehow two-thirds of the way through January, as we dive into the new year, the weather is changing, the holidays are behind us, oh...
Blair Doucette
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Your Winter Herbal Cupboard
Now, as the daylight hours crawl into bed earlier and the fields hunker down for the winter, we find ourselves nestling in with a blanket or
bdoucette7
Nov 21, 20224 min read
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What To Do With Extra Okra and Green Beans
We’re up to our eyeballs in okra and green beans here on the farm to the point where we almost can’t see an end in sight.
bdoucette7
Sep 8, 20226 min read
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Optimal Nutrition & Real Food
So, if I were to boil everything that I learned in grad school about optimal nutrition down to just one small concept it would be: eat real
bdoucette7
Aug 23, 20224 min read
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Natural Medicine Around the Farm
did you know that these tiny golden flowers that look as though they're tumbling out of the woods are actually filled with medicine? The pla
bdoucette7
Aug 9, 20223 min read
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The Hanover Tomato, Central Virginia’s Most Famous Ingredient
Since these tomato seeds are planted deep into the Hanover soil, each and every tomato that is produced on this farm is a Hanover Tomato. No
bdoucette7
Jul 22, 20222 min read
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Pause for Purslane
Here we go, I’m very excited! I was introduced to purslane as a somewhat beneficial weed while working here at Woodside Farms my first...
bdoucette7
Jun 14, 20222 min read
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Trust Your Gut
You know that gut feeling you get when something is wrong? Or those butterflies that flit around your stomach when you get nervous? There’s
bdoucette7
Jun 7, 20222 min read
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Natural Remedies For Arthritis
“Arthritis” is actually the general term for joint inflammation. However, when most of us use it, we often are referring to...
bdoucette7
Apr 19, 20223 min read
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Pickle for your thoughts ~ What’s the *dill* with pickles?
Pickles! Glorious pickles! A farmer or gardener’s pantry is usually built on the back of pickles. I really do love to peek in and see...
Blair Doucette
Apr 12, 20223 min read
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Drink More Water
The sun! It’s out and it’s glorious! Absolutely everything about my mood changes for the better as soon as the sun’s out. But with great...
Blair Doucette
Mar 22, 20223 min read
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