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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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Here’s To Another Growing Season – Reaping The Rewards of Community Supported Growth.
First impressions are everything. And our forward face is a little friendlier than most. Just beyond the threshold of Chickahominy Falls,...
knease1
Oct 13, 20233 min read
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Beat The Heat & Ban The Burn - A Natural Sunscreen Recipe
We’re exposing ourselves to more harmful UVA rays while thinking we’re staying protected. Additionally, most chemical sunscreen
Blair Doucette
Jul 11, 20234 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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Paw(p)-Up Market This Saturday
Some of our best friends in the world have paws for feet, enjoy the occasional trash bin perusal, and are really really good at doing a...
Blair Doucette
May 11, 20231 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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Bask in the Forest
Forest bathing, or shinrin yoku, is a therapeutic practice that originated in Japan in the 1980s and is now being utilized stateside for its
Blair Doucette
Jan 11, 20233 min read
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The Health Benefits of Taking Breaks Outdoors
breaks, especially outside, has been shown to lead to healthier and happier lives, as well as contribute to increased overall production
bdoucette7
Oct 18, 20223 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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Stop and Smell The Kale - The Health Benefits of Gardening
Gardening, along with volunteering on a farm (ahem, like at Woodside Farms), can have many health and therapeutic benefits.
bdoucette7
Aug 2, 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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CSA Members: The Seeds That Grow Our Farm
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs blossomed in a post-Green Revolution world. The Green Revolution is a model of farming...
bdoucette7
Jul 6, 20223 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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Naturopathic-based Practices for Covid Care
Two years and some change into this global pandemic and it seems we've come to the understanding that this virus is here to stay. With...
bdoucette7
May 24, 20224 min read
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The Many Health Benefits of Living the Farm Life
Around 12,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors stopped migrating to where the food was and began growing their own. This was the...
bdoucette7
May 3, 20223 min read
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