Lesley Stiles
Healthy Habits Equal Healthy Hearts
February is Healthy Heart Month and is the essential month of love. It makes good sense; we hope the people we love will hang around for a long time and keep their hearts healthy. Kids definitely ...
Jan 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Atonement
Dust settles into quiet corners as radiators sizzle and rain lends a soothing melody to the marked peacefulness of January. After the holidays have come and gone, the month of atonement arrives. M...
Jan 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Calm Holiday Season May Require a Strategy
Depending on your frame of mind, the holiday season can either be a warm glowing/uncontrolled baking/ hugging time of year, or an overwhelming/anxiety-producing/grumpy/depressing time of year. As y...
Nov 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fall Brings a Delicious Variety to the Table
October is an exciting time of year for food freaks. We get this phenomenal crossover season that blends cool weather crops with remnants of sexy summer goods, eagerly jumping over the line. You ca...
Oct 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Crazy abundant Sun Gold tomatoes, jalapenos and eggplant grace the gardens. Tomatillos rank as a top performer this summer as well. I have seen so many squash and lemon cucumbers that I could start...
Jul 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Summer’s Bounty
Hopefully, by this stage of weird summer, you have some red or yellow cherry tomatoes to lovingly snack on while watering or tending your garden. Our long, cold, wet spring has most definitely conf...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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It's Grillin' Season!
Grill season has descended upon us full bore, bringing delectable seasonal choices of locally grown produce to get our imaginative juices flowing and hearts beating fast in anticipation of meal tim...
May 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grow Your Own
If the blessed event has not already transpired, now is the time to get a summer garden thriving with your coddled seedlings and exotic stash of seeds. Our crazy weather may have delayed placing pr...
May 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grassy Green Asparagus
Local asparagus from Brentwood, Stockton and the Central Valley returns to farmers’ markets all over California for, hopefully, an amazing spring season. Fat or thin, long or short, asparagus capti...
Apr 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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