Mary Crimmins

We have officially entered into the Farmer’s Market season and I can almost taste the summer tomatoes. Farmers everywhere are planting, watering, weeding and harvesting their crops. I am an avid supporter of Farmer’s Markets and think that everyone should shop at one if available. And here’s why:   Meet Your Farmer – This is [...]

Perhaps you have heard of this before, every year the Environmental Working Group puts out a list of their top chemical residue offenders. They test for the highest levels of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides. I love lists like this because it can be really challenging to navigate when we should buy organic and when it’s ok to buy [...]

This is one of my favorite reoccurring posts to write because I get to take a minute to celebrate those things in my life that I couldn’t live without. It takes me back to the experience when I was young and every night at the dinner table, my mom would ask each family member “What was the [...]

Farmers Markets have been gaining in popularity all across the country. Woo-hoo! It’s so encouraging to see new small farms pop up each year. In fact, I just met a new farmer last weekend at my local market and was able to ask him all about his growing practices. We had a long conversation about [...]

The author is my sweet sister Madeline Lemon. For as long as I can remember, Madeline has struggled with the inflammatory digestive auto-immune disease Crohn’s and has been living with it for over 10 years. Because of all the medicine she was on, she now has medication induced psoriasis and another auto immune issue called hidradenitis [...]

It’s that time folks, to put down the donut and pick up the apple. The hardest thing for me right now is giving up sugar. This is a battle that I fight often as I get off sugar and then start eating it again. Lately I have been indulging in dark chocolate with almonds and [...]

  Buying meat can be stressful. What the heck do all those labels mean? Who can you trust? Understanding the labels and terminology is really important.  For example, a label might say “All Natural” and we automatically think that is the healthy option. Most people consider “all natural” to be the same as “organic” however [...]