Please welcome my good friend Raine Saunders (pronounced Rainy) from Agriculture Society. She’s an expert at finding and sourcing health-supporting foods from both local sources and online merchants. In this post, she shares what sustainable food is, why you’d want to eat this way, and three ways to get started. Her brand-new book, The Savvy Shopper’s Guide to Sustainable Food, is just one of the products included in the Extreme Health Digital Library, where you can get 53 health products valued at $835 for an incredibly low price of $39.97 (75 cents each) through Thursday, March 7, 2013.

As I type this, food freedom supporters are gathering in Minnesota at the trial of farmer Alvin Schlangen, co-owner and manager of Freedom Farms Co-op. Watch the short video to hear his story. “Alvin Schlangen, a peaceful Minnesota farmer and founder of Freedom Farms Co-op, connects people with the foods of their choice from local producers. Over the past two years, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has illegally raided Alvin’s van, warehouse, and farm. The state has now brought 21 charges against Alvin related to food distribution; all are misdemeanor counts. Four of the misdemeanors are in trial [this week]. If convicted, Alvin faces up to a year in jail and hefty fines… just for helping to connect consumers to the producers and foods of their choice.” –Raw Milk Food Freedom Riders

Is this Amish butter or not? Come along with me and we’ll find out.

With these last pictures I post in 2010 — also the pictures that *almost* didn’t get posted at all this year — I issue you a challenge. (Call it a friendly suggestion for a New Year’s resolution, or if you don’t “do” those, call it what you like.) In 2011, I challenge you to …

Hello, and welcome to my post for this week’s Tuesday Twister! The highlight of our week was going mushroom hunting with our friends Beth and Kerry Olson of B & K Natural Farm (pastured poultry). They’ve been avid mushroomers for 30 years, and we were honored and blessed to be invited along on one of their cherished days in the woods hunting for wild edibles.