Posts From Heidi Pyper

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What’s So Great About Kale?

It all started a couple of years ago.  It was kale this and kale that. When you ordered delivery organics, the box arrived at the door loaded with kale. The

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What’s So Great About Peaches?

Each Peach Pear Plum, I spy Tom Thumb … and he’s 97, doesn’t need glasses and his skin is amazing! As a Canadian I live for the summer growing season.

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What’s So Great About Homemade Cleansers?

A friend recently asked me what products I use to clean with. She assumed, correctly, that I don’t use chemical-based cleansers (see my previous post on What’s So Bad About

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What’s So Bad About Household Cleaners?

When I was a kid I had Saturday morning chores. My jobs were to dust and vacuum the living room, polish the furniture with Lemon Pledge and polish the brass

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What’s So Great About Coconut Water?

You know something’s up when one day you spot a small news item reporting the health benefits of this or that, then there’s a friend of yours saying she ran

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What’s So Great About…Strawberries

What’s so great about strawberries. No word of a lie, last night as my husband was washing strawberries, and my 4 year old daughter poking her nose into the sink,

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What’s So Bad (Good) About…Barbecue?

I have to say, when I began thinking about this post I was totally depressed. Who wants to hear (during Barbecue Week no less) that grilling causes cancer? Not me, that’s

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What’s So Great About…Planting Your Own Herb Garden

No back yard?  Containers will do just fine thank you very much. Sadly, gardening isn’t a hereditary gene. My garden contains whatever the previous owner of my home planted and

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What’s So Bad About Juice?

You are going to hate me for this – I hate me for this – but juice makes the bad list.  And I’m not just talking about Sunny D or that

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What’s So Great About Asparagus?

There are few things that say “Spring!”  more deliciously than asparagus.  The green spears’ ideal growing season are about 6 – 8 weeks in the spring and early summer. While you