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Information found on the Our Natural Life website and Podcasts is meant for educational and informational purposes only. We hope that it might motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions, based upon your own research, and in partnership with your health care provider. It should not be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis, or courses of treatment.

    ONL059 Nature’s Harmony Farm Tour

    We’re very excited about our latest Podcast! Last fall, on our farm tour to Nature’s Harmony Farm with Tim and Liz Young, we were inspired to make the transition from suburb to country. Our new place, Broad River Pastures, is about 7 miles from Nature’s Harmony. We think you will be inspired as we were. You can listen to the Podcast on the link below.

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    ONL058 The Fourfold Path to Healing with Dr. Thomas S. Cowan

    FourfoldFCover2008.jpg Dr. Tom Cowan, principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing, spoke with us recently about the Fourfold Path to Healing approach that he uses in his medical practice, wrote about in his book, and teaches at the Fourfold Path of Healing Conferences. The essential question he addressed in our conversation was “Is it true that people can live long, healthy lives without cancer and heart disease? Dr. Cowan believes that the answer is yes. Our Podcast interview can be accessed below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, Tivo, or Sticher.

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    Website Recovery

    On January 15 our web host had a major server failure which required that we completely rebuild our website.

    We apologize to the thousands of other blogs and websites that  linked to our blog posts and podcasts because all those links are now broken. All of our posts have been restored but they need to be re-linked on your website.

    We now have a more robust automatic backup system that will ensure that we don’t ever have to rebuild links again. A complete failure can be fully restored in a very short time.

    //Jon

    ONL057 OMG, We Bought the Farm!

    DSCF4252.JPGOnce in a blue moon, something amazing happens that changes everything. Jon and I have been going through a lot of changes since our last recorded Podcast in November. As I write this on the eve of the last day of the first decade of the 21st Century, we are only hours away from a blue moon and lunar eclipse.

    While New Year’s Eve is always a time for celebration, this one is especially dear for Jon and me, even in addition to celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary on January 1. Here is the teaser (with apologies for the cliches): our goose is cooked, we bought the farm, and I’m going out to pasture in June! Keep reading to find out more! You can listen to our Podcast by downloading ONL057 from iTunes, Zune, Tivo, or Stitcher or by clicking on the embedded link below.

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    Merry Christmas from Our Natural Life

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    Thank you so much for listening to our Podcasts and reading our blogs in 2009. It has been an awesome year! Your kind words, suggestions, and support mean so much to both of us and we are truly grateful. We have plans for an even more exciting year in 2010. We’ve been very busy during our fall hiatus but hope to touch base with you all soon to let you know what we’ve been up to. Remember to subscribe to both the blogs and Podcasts if you want to keep up with us best.

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    ONL056 Chef Rachel Matesz

    rachelmail.jpgToday’s Thanksgiving Podcast focuses on something we’re the most thankful for – nutritious, healthy, unprocessed food!

    We are so blessed to eat great food provided by our local farmers and are always grateful to share a good meal with family and friends. Chef Rachel Matesz has written two great books to help you prepare meals for your family. These are The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet and Cookbook, and The Ice Dream Cookbook . In this interview, she shares some great tips from her books on healthy meal preparation.

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    ONL055 The Liberation Diet

    In this show we turn the diet experts on their heads. Annette Presley, co-author with Kevin Brown of The Liberation Diet , refutes the mainstream doctrine of weight loss and promotes the eating of real, traditional foods. Annette Presley RD LD NSCF-CPT is a dietician, personal trainer, and adjunct professor. She purports a return to the diet our ancestors ate before the advent of processed foods. The Podcast can be found on the link below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher.

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    ONL054 Zachary Adam Cohen on Farm to Table and Social Media

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    This Podcast is a conversation with Zachary Adam Cohen, creator of the Farm to Table blog and television show and self-described “evangelist for the sustainable food movement”. Zachary talks with us about how his dream project started and addresses skeptics on the topic of social media. The link to our interview is found below.

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    ONL053 Truth and Lies about our Food with Robyn O’Brien

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    This Podcast includes our recent conversation with the activist mother of four, Robyn O’Brien. Robyn is the author of The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making us Sick and What we can do About It. In her book and this show, Robyn shares her story of how she came to be an unlikely food crusader and began to educate others about food allergies, food additives, GM foods, and the dangers of soy. The interview can be downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher. You can also listen from your computer using the embedded device below.

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    ONL052 Preserving the Harvest Tips from Karen K. Brees

    preserving_150.jpgKaren K. Brees , Ph. D., author of The Complete Idiot’s Gude to Preserving Food is the subject of Cathy’s interview today. Her book is a great beginner’s reference on canning, freezing, pickling, and more. The Podcast interview can be played on the device below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher.

    Karen, a master food preserver, lives on a ranch in Idaho where she raises South African Boer goats (for meat) and vegetables. In spite of a small growing season, she manages to produce a large bounty of produce for her family. By preserving her harvest, she and her husband enjoy local, sustainable food year round. Food preservation techniques used to be handed down from mother to daughter, but many of these traditions have been lost over the last 40 years as modern, processed, convenient foods filled the supermarket shelves.

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