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Eat Organic: Maximize Personal and Planetary Health
Save the planet. Protect your mother. Save your life. Sustain Ability.
Detoxify from the decadence of winter. Gently bring your body to balance by giving your diet a nutritional overhaul. Be adventurous and go on a personal quest for that perfect "O". Organic agriculture and sustainable farming are a fast growing segment of lifestyles of health and sustainability as many jump on the holistic health bandwagon in search of their green soul.
Explore sustainable farming practices and organic eating during March, national nutrition month. Organic sustainable farming practices perpetuate an eco-system of humanity from pasture to plate. Life is about relationships. Our relationship with the land, our relationship with one another, person to person, community to community – expanding into an ever widening web of sustainability: One global holistic world view.
I invite you to examine your relationship to food, the land, and each other. Allow room for meaningful relationships in your life, taking a vow to infuse them with gratitude. Focus on One relationship with the soul purpose of serving the greater good of all. Sustain Ability a new look at humanity, there are angels amongst us. Sow a seed to blossom from your heart – evolving human potential through inspired action. This spring visualize yourself emerging from the darkness of winter, face upturned, greeting the light with a smile.
Manifest,
The mama in charge
M. Parks, CHES
Health Educator
Mama Blessings 2007
Year of the family
Sustain Ability
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Green Business Sustainability Spotlight
Mama Blessings, Mamacitas, and Full Circle Farms come together in Girdwood, Alaska, to spearhead a good ol' fashioned grass roots movement. All three businesses embrace concepts that contribute to establishing a local ecosystem of humanity. Protecting the environment is the core element, from field to fork eating organic is the best insurance policy against eliminating pesticides from your diet, avoiding hormones in meat, and other chemical additives that are synonymous with death and disabling disease. Sustainable farming is about so much more than organic agriculture - it is an entire lifestyle and philosophy. Mama Blessings, Mamacitas, and Full Circle Farms - a trifecta of local Alaskan sustainability.
Mamacitas Girdwood, Alaska's Freshest Mexican cuisine serving traditional recipes with a natural and organic twist. Making Girdwood and the planet a little bit nicer, one burrito at a time!
- organics
- recycling
- community involvement
Mamacitas will be the pick up site for Girdwood CSA - Community Supported Agriculture -an organic produce program. Mamacitas, continuing the legacy of community involvement and perpetuating a positive relationship between Alaskans and healthy food. The CSA program is coming to Girdwood Spring 2007!
Full Circle Farms - a leader in reconnecting local consumers with local producers to help develop and strengthen an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable food system.
Mama Blessings is a small home-based "green" business that promotes natural organic living. Protecting mother earth and my family's health has evolved into a full time dream job. Mama Blessings, a small sustainable business in Girdwood, Alaska, enamored with the idea of:
- lifestyles of health and sustainability
- advancing consciousness of humanity through personal development
- protecting this beautiful earth
"Jump on the organic bandwagon - breaking trail to a
sustainable future" -M. Parks, CHES
March Factoid:
The word 'March' comes from the Roman 'Martius'. This was originally the first month of the Roman calendar and was names after Mars, the god of war. (Woodlands Junior School)
National Nutrition Month Factoid:
"Growing children are developing brain function and internal organs to last a lifetime, so their food should be the purest and most nutritious available" (Dr. Greene Website)
Children fed a diet of organic foods were exposed to far fewer -- six to nine times less -- toxic pesticides than children fed a conventional diet (University of Washington Study)
Kid Risk Factors for Pesticide Pollution: