Melissa Danielle on August 20th, 2009

When I’m out at a restaurant or market with a prepared foods counter, I look for dishes that look simple enough to prepare at home.
While at Whole Foods Market in Tribeca, the “Our Kitchen” counter offered a salad of spinach, artichokes, and roasted red peppers. It didn’t look all that special to me, but I [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 19th, 2009

Institute for Integrative Nutrition is the only nutrition school in the world that explores over 100 dietary theories and philosophies and offers a whole person approach to health and wellness.
Check out this e-mail about an upcoming webinar on Cravings:
Do you spend a large part of your day craving a certain type of food or substance–be [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 18th, 2009

In our time-obsessed and quick-fix culture, it can be difficult for women who hear their clocks ticking to consider slowing down long enough to work through the issues that have prevented their pregnancies, but wise is the woman who takes the time to remember that conception is a natural process, even if they end up going the medically assisted route.

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Melissa Danielle on August 13th, 2009

My CSA has been receiving tons of peaches this season, thanks to the bountiful harvest from our wonderful fruit share farmer (sometimes it pays to pay in advance!)
In addition to freezing them, I’ve been finding ways to eat them at almost every meal.
If you’re ever in Brooklyn, visit Wilklow Orchards on their Greenmarket farmer’s market [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 12th, 2009

From the ComFood Listserve:
We at Hawthorne Valley Farm are excited about a new program that we will be offering beginning in October 2009, called Hudson Valley Farm Beginnings®.  This program will include nine classroom sessions in on-farm goal setting, strategic and business planning, marketing, and financial management, for those interested in developing or expanding farming [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 11th, 2009

I’m a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Since 2005, I’ve made tremendous improvements to my health and explored exciting new career opportunities.
Today, I want to share this with you!
At Integrative Nutrition, you will learn what foods nourish you and get the tools and support to launch a career in nutrition.
I’m excited to share [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 8th, 2009

I’m a “no recipe” kinda girl, which means I usually just take a look around my kitchen and throw whatever’s laying around (or on its way out) into my Vita-Mix and see what happens.
Today though, I have peaches, basil, peaches, and some more peaches. The Goddess of fruit has blessed my CSA fruit share farmer [...]

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Melissa Danielle on August 6th, 2009

California
Santa Cruz
Administrative Assistant – Organic Farming Research Foundation
Connecticut
New Haven
Special Assistant to the Director – Yale Sustainable Food Project
New York
New Paltz
Farm Manager (The Phillies Bridge Farm Project,Inc)
New York City
Greenmarket Wholesale Farmer’s Market Manager (CENYC)
Urban Horticulturist (CENYC)
Rosendale
Assistant for Cooking Class & Farmer’s Market

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Melissa Danielle on August 5th, 2009

New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”), on behalf of the City of New York (the “City”), is seeking proposals from qualified individuals, companies or organizations to lease, operate and maintain a shared commercial kitchen space (“Kitchen”) of up to approximately 4,000 square feet in the market building at La Marqueta.
Read more here

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Melissa Danielle on August 4th, 2009

“What is a small family farm? People might look at me and say I’m not a small farmer, because of our acreage. If a farm makes over $100K a year, are they a small farmer? If you make too much money [farming], people will have problems with that.”
“The small farmer is the farmer you know.”

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