Happy Organic Month, Neighbors

In celebration, every brand featured in this edition of Think Wisely offers Certified Organic options. May we all be inspired to make everyday choices in favor of a more sustainable, hopeful, and regenerative future.

As the apocalyptic red skies of fire season and the extremes of drought and flooding become increasingly commonplace, life as we know it is being threatened, and one industry in which we are seeing the real-time effects is agriculture.

Every day seems to bring with it some disheartening news on climate change and how it is changing our planet; the red flags are hard to ignore, yet, collectively, we do.

“Wanted” posters, old maps, and conversations with strangers at small-town country stores—these are the methods apple detectives use to find lost varieties of a fruit that once grew in orchards around the country.^{1 2 3 4} According to The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada by Daniel Bussey, more than 16,000 unique types have been docum

Once upon a time, before Keto and Paleo and Non-GMO, before Earth Day and USDA Certified Organic, Margaret and Philip Isely were knocking on doors and lending out books on nutrition. They were passionate people, people whose values were rooted in something they actively believed in, something they lived.

(P.S., it’s never too early to start!)

There are a lot of perks to growing older (wisdom! confidence! perspective!), however, the little brain blips you may start to experience aren’t so fun, and maybe even a little worrisome.

Sometimes a supplement comes along and changes your life. It’s like an aha! moment in a bottle.

“Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.” —Frans Lanting

“Right here in America is one of the world’s most threatened natural systems. The Northern Great Plains is as important as the Amazon or Arctic, and deserves our attention.” –Martha Kauffman, Managing Director, Northern Great Plains

We’re delighted to see you—it’s been a while! And thanks for the invite…consider this our RSVP. YES, we will get outside and Rock the Grill this month, and we’ll invite our neighbors too!

Nothing says summer like a backyard barbeque! However, cooking certain foods over high heat, like that of a grill, can actually create dangerous compounds—compounds that are associated with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. But don’t cancel the party just yet!