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Perfectly Peppermint!

2012-01-10T21:54:00.000-08:00

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2788197376990&set=a.2732946235746.136180.1019983348&type=1&theater

New Perfectly Peppermint at River Valley Market Co-op!!!

goodies custom made

2011-12-20T19:52:00.001-08:00

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Find Our Soap at your next hot tub: East Heaven Hot Tubs!

2011-10-31T11:54:00.000-07:00

Emmet's Essentials Organics
Find Emmet's Essentials Organic Olive 'n Aloe Castile Soap at the http://eastheaven.com/ in the showers of each and every hot tub, enjoy!

East Heaven Hot Tub Co. & Paradise Spa

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Relax at East Heaven. Hot tub experience for Northampton, Amherst, and Western Massachusetts. Private, unique room with wooden or fiberglass tub, indoor or under the stars.

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2011-08-04T10:06:00.000-07:00

Another week of Fabulawesomegreat

I have to say: I'm feeling a little thankful this week. Firstly, I've been enjoying delicious, Burgy-centric comestibles all week; Mockingbird's chicken roasted with Twin Maples corn, fresh sliced tomatoes from Crabapple and Town Farm, and toasted Bread Euphoria loaf.

Secondly, the temperature seems to have climbed down off its hot throne to spend a cool day with us in Williamsburg tomorrow, which will set the stage for Brant Deatley's experimental folk melodies played under the ol' tree starting around 3:30, and Rachel's soaps and massage chair ready to catch the tight of neck and sore of back all day long.

And sixthly, Appalachian Naturals and Turkish Kitchen will be joining us tomorrow, the former with their delectable dressings, salsas, and dips, and the latter with the best and brightest in prepared food et. al, such as Tarhana: a dehydrated mix of bulgur, probiotics, vegetables and herbs that can be served as a soup or a cold grain salad.

Oh! And at Angel Park, 7pm, Dennis Caraher! So, yea: there's a lot of stuff. I guess I'd better call it there and just let y'all experience first-hand the incredible selection of fresh food that our "normal" vendors are bringing in week in and week out. See you there!

Andre Huckins and photo courtesy of Sienna Wildfield

Millstone market Private Label

2011-04-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

Now you can get the excellent Foamy Fun Organic Aloe Castile soap at the Millstone Market in Sunderland, MA
(photo taken by Shatay!)

A big shout out from NYC Beauty Blog

2011-04-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.bloginity.com/blog/2011/04/22/natural-beauty-earth-day/?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4db32937a2fb047f%2C0

Maple mama!

2011-03-09T19:06:00.000-08:00

ReDiscovered today; maple makes an awesome moisturizing face mask!
Sugar shack season baby! Yum!

second fri at scma

2010-12-24T21:04:00.001-08:00

Cubism dada birthday 2010 magnetic

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bee body balm

2010-12-15T20:05:00.001-08:00

Mix 1 part bees wax to 2 parts any yummy oil and enjoy!

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honey balm

2010-12-15T20:04:00.001-08:00

A simple gift for the winter face n skin; mix to parts oil (coconut, shea, cocoa butter, olive) to one part beeswax.
Yum.
A full body balm!
Bee beautiful!
RB

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resource for health watch

2010-07-20T21:16:00.001-07:00

http://www.bodyearth.net/health/bpa/bpa-its-not-just-for-dinner-anymore/

2010-05-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

Summer 2010 marks the beginning of free community yoga at the Smith College waterfall, Paradise Pond.

Every Tues and Sunday at 4:30 starting 6/6

come have fun!

210-0495 (413) for any questions or to rsvp

Dandelion Sparkler

2010-05-14T18:16:00.000-07:00

Dandelion Sparkler (which you can call soda or champagne or whatever you like- it is not alcoholic, but is totally magical and fancy!)

The recipe is inspired by a book called Homemade Root Beer, Soda, and Pop:

1 gallon dandelion blossoms

1 cup raisins, coarsely chopped

1 lemon, cut in quarters

1 grapefruit (we used an orange)

1/2 tsp dried orange peel

1 gallon boiling water

1 3/4 c. sweetener (we used honey and much less, but you could use agave or sugar and sweeten to taste)

3 Tblsp vinegar (if you like a more bitter taste- you can add it in with the sugar)

1/8 tsp granulated ale yeast (plus 1/4 c lukewarm water)- this i got at the beer making store on king st.

1. Place blossoms & raisins in large stock pot, then squeeze the lemon in and add lemon rind and pulp. Add the grapefruit and the orange rind.

2. Pour 1 gallon of boiling water over all that and allow to steep, covered, for 1-6 hours, depending on how strong you like it.

3. Add the sugar until it is dissolved and then strain into a jug- make sure the liquid is not hotter than lukewarm

4. Put the ale yeast into a teacup w/ the lukewarm water and let it sit for several minutes until it rehydrates.

5. Add the yeast to the jug, cap and mix it up a bit.

6. Bottle (we used old coke bottles we found and bought new caps- you need either a capper or those old fashioned bottles with rubber stoppers and latches here) and store in a dark, cool place.

7. After 72 hours, open one bottle to check for fizziness and if you like the bubbliness, put in the fridge until you are ready to drink!

I made violet and dandelion blossom ice cubes to serve with it and it was like a fairy cocktail.

Enjoy!

Love,

Dori

Dori Midnight
community folk healing + magic + apothecary
www.dorilandia.com

http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com

Sunscreen

2010-05-08T18:55:00.000-07:00

Newly mixed batch of sunscreen; Olive, Zinc and Aloe.

Call us, if you want some, we'll make it for you or put together a make it yourself kit.
413-210-0495

R

Mother's Day Puppet Parade

2010-05-06T10:28:00.000-07:00

MOEJOS Puppet Parade & Puppet Making Workshop

Mother's Day Puppet Parade in Northampton on May 9th, the join MOEJOS for an all-day puppet-making workshop at the 4th Annual Hilltown Spring Festival on May 15th in Cummington, MA.

MOTHER’S DAY

On May 9th, the Mother Earth and her Endangered Creatures will be taking over the streets of Northampton for the Fifth Annual Mother’s Puppet Parade and March for Peace.

This year the parade will go to Pulaski Park for a Ritual Performance by the MOther Earth JOurney Puppets (The MOEJOS) of Williamsburg, and cellist Stephen Katz of Haydenville, where a vision of sustainability brought forth by the elders will make the Great Mama sing with joy!

When: Mother’s Day, May 9th, 12 noon, Ritual Performance at 1 pm in Pulaski Park. (Raindate May 16th)

Where: Main Street, Northampton, MA. (Puppeteers will be gathering at 11am at the Bridge St. school lawn.

Who: The MOther Earth JOurney Puppets, including the Great Mama, the Earth, dolphins and a whale, birds and beasts, the Carbon turtle and the Hurricane bird, Tara Mama, the Fox, the Phoenix, the Windmill and the Transition Town Turtle! Plus a community of puppet makers, peacemakers, activists, the Transition Town folks, the Pedal People, MotherWoman, and many more – including you!

For more information contact: Beth Fairservis at bethbirth@crocker.com or call 413-268-3588.

Olive Oil

2010-04-05T09:23:00.000-07:00

A fabulous fruit which when taken internally stimulates metabolism, promotes digestion; lubricating mucous membranes and helping treat dry or mature skin.

The vitamin E in Olive oil helps nurture and beautify the skin.

this is why we make our soap with it and love it so much.

Like the ancient story of the dove who brought Noah the Olive branch after the flood and the prevailing symbol of peace it embodies, we choose olive to nurture each other.

Entrepreneurship

2010-03-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.smith.edu/newssmith/winter2010/entrepreneurs.php

Aware Parenting

2009-12-28T15:36:00.001-08:00

http://www.awareparenting.com/english.htm

Mindful Parenting

2009-12-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.yogamates.com/news/698/

Truth in the heart

2009-11-03T04:06:00.000-08:00

http://images.heartmath.com/heartquotes/hq1087.html?mtcCampaign=2026&mtcEmail=1350619

"Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth."

- Kabir

truth

2009-10-21T04:21:00.000-07:00

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

- Mahatma Gandhi

biomimicry/nature songs

2009-10-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/asktheplanet

biomimicry

2009-10-18T17:51:00.000-07:00

http://biomimicryinstitute.org/

Children are philosophers

2009-09-22T18:51:00.000-07:00

http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/wiki/Main_Page

A great talk at Broadside Book tonight by a philosophy professor on his research and application in teaching how to cultivate the natural born philosopher within each child.

Check it out!

Home Grown!

2009-09-21T18:24:00.000-07:00

We are very pleased to be offering custom-made mineral make-up and organic liquid soap, made right here in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Call us for your special order and private label line.

Making it here,

The Emmet's Essentials team!

healthy body care for the whole family

2009-06-28T05:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.ewg.org/kid-tips01?utm_source=tips&utm_medium=email&utm_content=second-link&utm_campaign=kid-health

awesome relationship builder

2009-06-01T06:57:00.000-07:00

http://www.xiosoftpresenter.com/?eventid=7546107
via Ellen Eataugh @ Extatica.com

heart quotes from heartmath

2009-05-27T06:17:00.001-07:00

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

- Audrey Hepburn

Family Yoga keeps the Peace!

2009-05-01T06:19:00.000-07:00

http://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/guestblogger/

2009-04-02T09:15:00.001-07:00

Big Idea - Friedrich Nietzsche : I Am Who I Must Be

"Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Reminds me of Walt Whitman's genius statement: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."

Or how about 50 Cent's (yes, THAT 50 Cent): "Like it or love it, I am who I am."

Do YOU have the courage to stand up and say to the world: "Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be."?!?

Good. Thought so.

4 corners of truth

2009-03-22T12:48:00.000-07:00

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

Confucius
http://www.jesna.org

Global Mindshift

2009-03-18T18:28:00.000-07:00

Great lecture at Forbes library! and they have a new Sam's Cafe snack bar! Learned all about soil science and bio-energy:-)

http://www.global-mindshift.org/

From Higher awareness on the Inner Journey path

2009-03-16T17:47:00.000-07:00

Forgive the hurts

"Forgiveness will never fail to free you."

-- Jerrold Mundis

Kabbalah-inspired films

2009-03-15T10:56:00.000-07:00

http://illuzia.net/en/videos/clips/embryo

Brilliant!

2009-03-06T11:55:00.001-08:00

Big Idea - Byron Katie : Compassionate Alarm Clocks

"It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."" ~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

That's a brilliant statement. Too often we let our stressful feelings get us MORE stressed.

Why not look at a stressful feeling as an alarm clock—a very compassionate alarm clock that's nudging us to wake up to a new reality? A reality grounded in truth.

I like that.

*insert favorite alarm clock sound here!! *

Wake up! :)

"The pain shows you what's left to investigate." ~ Byron Katie from Loving What Is

Let's connect on Twitter & Facebook!

Rally Day! Energy Movement Revolution!

2009-03-01T14:31:00.000-08:00

Thanks to our involvement with Green Northampton http://www.greennorthampton.com/ we got the motivating email from David Starr to get out and put our citizenry to power with a community-wide rally to transform the deadly use of coal and start building the secure green future!http://www.securegreenfuture.org/stopcoal on Sunday, March 1st rallies met in Salem Harbor Station (Salem,) NRG & Brayton Point (Somerset) and Mt. Tom (Holyoke) The voice of a Massachusetts Green Social Democrat leads the effort in organizing http://petervickery.blogspot.com/2009/03/mount-tom-demo.html in Holyoke.

Innovator Jeff Brown (UMass) of http://www.ridebuzz.org/ weaves a web forum for carpool and ways to save while forming community coalitions! Thank you innovation! Amy Vanderlaan (pictured right) of Smith College documented the rally with fellow Amherst college Film Studies student.

Rally Day for Plowing The Norwottuck Trail 3/1 @ 2 pm!

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/nwrt.htm
This Trail is Shovel ready at the
Rail Rally on Damon Rd. (Damon on Right) A crowd of great vigor impressed their shovels on the icy sheets of the Norwottuck Rail Trail.
With hot chocolate and cookie tabeled signature clipboards (ala Michael Docter, family & Friends of the Norwottuck trail), people signed and made their wish known with shovels in hand! This is viable and essential to our energy evolution, what a rallyevent day! on the energy way:-)

Background Information on Plowing the Trail:

Question: Isn’t plowing the road going to be expensive?
Answer: No. The town of Arlington currently plows their 3 mile path and it costs them around $2,500 per year.
Question: Will this mean cross country Skiers will not be able to use the path
Answer: Very few skiers use the section between Northampton and Amherst for two reasons: 1) Several cross roads (plowed) and tunnels interrupt the trail and require skiers to constantly remove their skis. 2) People walk on the path and wreck the ski tracks. Even when the path is plowed, skiers will still be able to use the side of the trail as well as the un-plowed section of the trail between Belchertown and Amherst.
Question: The Rail Trail was originally built for “Recreational Use”. Wouldn’t plowing it change it to “Commuter Use”
Answer: While many commuter cyclists will use the trail in the winter to get between Northampton and Amherst, 1000’s of recreational users will also be able to access the trail who are unable to do so now.
Question: How will the plowing be impacted by the up and coming Rail Trail Resurfacing project?
Answer: Over the next 3 years, some million dollars will be spent to re-surface and widen the existing trail. Friends of the Norwottuck trail and allies are working to insure that the new surface is designed so that it can be easily plowed. (By the way, they are not going to use glass for the bike trail this time!) http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/norwottock_rail_trail_users_wa.html

The Importance of Play!

2009-02-28T09:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24well.html?_r=1&ref=health

Shared with me by Raymond Ducharme Prof. Emeritus at Smith College in Educational Philosophy

2009-02-23T10:39:00.000-08:00

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- John Albert Michener

Inner Journey

2009-02-18T08:30:00.001-08:00

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
http://www.higherawareness.com

Truth in Dream (HearMath)

2009-02-10T12:19:00.000-08:00

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

- Virginia Woolf

let it flow-

2009-02-06T17:05:00.000-08:00

More HeartMath wisdom;

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

- Morrie Schwartz

Being genuine

2009-01-28T07:17:00.001-08:00

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

ala www.higherawareness.com

From The Heart- More Wisdom from HeartMath

2009-01-26T09:54:00.000-08:00

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

-Marc Chagall

polish

2009-01-24T10:18:00.000-08:00

“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”

-- Eknath Easwaran

from selfgrowth.com

heartmath shares wisdom

2009-01-23T09:49:00.000-08:00

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

truly seeing

2009-01-19T08:15:00.000-08:00

"When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see."

shared with me by Ellen Eatough, M.A.

Breathing

2009-01-18T08:58:00.000-08:00

The Calming Breath

- Breathe in and out, nice and easy
- extend your exhale by one count then two,
- Think, "In, I am breathing in. Out, I am breathing out."

Shared with me at a workshop by Elena Volpe, MA, LMFT

wisdom ala heartmath

2009-01-15T06:48:00.001-08:00

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

truth

2009-01-14T12:01:00.001-08:00

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(quotesforall.net)

more from albert-

2009-01-13T06:39:00.000-08:00

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955,
German-born American Physicist
found at selfgrowth.com

look to understand!

2009-01-12T05:57:00.000-08:00

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

(ala Hearmath)

explore!

2009-01-11T12:31:00.001-08:00

http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/treehouses.html

Soul Flares open the heart-

2009-01-10T15:57:00.001-08:00

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these—to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from her essay "Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times"
To read the entire essay, which inspired the name "Soul Flares" visit https://www.soulflares.org/

A thought for the day-

2009-01-09T10:48:00.000-08:00

If the teacher is asking the questions, teaching is going on. If the child is asking the questions, learning is going on.

-Taken from the Living The Field course, the masterclass for miraculous living
that brings together science and spirituality.

glowing treasure!

2009-01-08T10:35:00.000-08:00

Find the glowing treasure inside of you, this year!
For sunshine lamps, we offer you these at www.emmetsessentials.com

The new Essential Oil bar

2009-01-07T08:50:00.000-08:00

Ready for your custom blends
R:-)

from pbs-

2009-01-06T09:02:00.001-08:00

Mister Rogers

We serve children best when we try to find out what their own inner needs are and what their own unique endowments are, and to help them capitalize on that.
- The Timeless Wisdom of Mister Rogers

Emmet's Essentials

2009-01-02T13:44:00.000-08:00

Emmet himself pouring our new formula!

what windows of opportunity

2009-01-01T14:10:00.000-08:00

can you imagine for '09! I wonder?!

Chapatis

2009-01-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

Our lovely Pakistani neighbor taught me how to make Chapatis
She actually rolls two together sandwiching mashed potatoes.
They are a staple at her house (she has a bulk sack of flour from Pakistan) and makes them all day for snacks and meals.

They are super easy: flour, water, salt (we use pink salt)
roll 'em out, sizzle and . . yum! . .

Lovey Dovey in the New Year!

2008-12-26T15:12:00.000-08:00

Eggscellent Sculpt-Your-Soap (Shea butter castile moldable goodness:-)

2008-12-23T16:02:00.000-08:00

Eggscellent Sculpt-Your-Soap (Shea butter castile moldable goodness:-) 12-

at www.emmetsessentials.com

413-210-0495

info@emmetsessentials.com

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The Essential Oil Bar!

2008-12-19T15:37:00.000-08:00

Now available for your custom-goodies!

Call 413-210-0495 to customize or email us @

info@emmetsessentials.com

choice

2008-12-04T08:34:00.000-08:00

"...Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~ Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning

Get a FREE subscription to Philosophers Notes- http://philosophersnotes.com/freebies

we love-

2008-12-01T18:42:00.000-08:00

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist

(from selfgrowth.com)

Dinner On Us

2008-11-26T12:21:00.000-08:00

Rachel Cassia Trigere Besserman wrote
at 3:13pm
This is an awesome class/program at UMASS where you meet and learn with other parents . . pizza first and the kids all get to play while you earn credit towards your degree.

A degree in parenting, how novel!

R:-)

Emmet self-portrait

2008-11-26T11:10:00.000-08:00

mum show - Smith College

2008-11-04T18:54:00.000-08:00

2008-10-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

Warrior II Pose

"Yoga can help improve your posture by increasing your flexibility, toning your muscles, and releasing tension - it's a good exercise option for everyone, regardless of age."
-- Andrew Weil, M.D.

Today's Tip

Why Do the Warrior II?

If you want to increase stamina and express your inner fierceness, try the Warrior II Pose. It was named in honor of an incarnation of Shiva, a fierce warrior described as having a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, and a thousand feet, wielding a thousand clubs.
What the Warrior II Can Do for You

-http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/TIP03058/Why-Do-the-Warrior-II.html

risk

2008-10-11T17:48:00.000-07:00

Dare to risk

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

-- Leo Buscaglia

http://www.higherawareness.com

2008-10-11T16:02:00.000-07:00

October Gardening Tips
Moss in the City - with William Moss
National Gardening Association

1. As a family activity, paint some of your pumpkins instead of carving them all. Use nontoxic paints to create colorful, scary faces, or whatever you can imagine. After Halloween, use the pumpkins to make bread, muffins, or pies with the kids.

2. Pot up amaryllis, gloxinias, freesias, and other winter-blooming bulbs now for blooms by Dec.

3. Spend some time outside under the Hunter's Moon. The full moon in mid-October is one of the brightest of the year. Enjoy brisk evening walks before the cold months arrive.

http://www.garden.org/urbangardening/index.php?page=october_seeds

sing

2008-10-07T18:18:00.001-07:00

culture

2008-09-30T16:26:00.001-07:00

[Hilltown Families] News & Updates

Big Yellow School Bus Grant Program for Schools

New Massachusetts grant program provides essential funds for cultural field trips

We have heard from Local Cultural Councils across Massachusetts that transportation costs are a growing factor in whether or not schools can afford to send students on cultural field trips. Given that there are already huge demands on LCC funds, the Massachusetts Cultural Council has sought ways to support LCCs in their work and to supplement the funding available for young people to connect with art and culture across the state. We are pleased to report that Bank of America Charitable Foundation has invested in a partnership with MCC to help communities meet these rising transportation costs.

The Big Yellow School Bus is a new grant program to help schools meet the costs of providing educational field trips to cultural institutions and events across the Commonwealth for their students. The program invites any K-12 school in Massachusetts to apply for a $200 grant to be put towards the cost of transportation for cultural field trips during the 2008-2009 school year; grants will be awarded on a first come first served basis.

Big Yellow School Bus is an ideal complement to the Local Cultural Council PASS program, which subsidizes the cost of tickets and often transportation to cultural field trips. Because Big Yellow School Bus funds are limited, LCCs that fund transportation for PASS field trips should continue to do so. The Big Yellow School Bus program cannot replace the valuable support that LCCs offer schools around the state. Our hope is that schools will take full advantage of both the PASS and Big Yellow School Bus programs to ensure that as many of their students as possible gain exposure to art and science museums, historic sites, and music and theatre performances.

Please help us spread the word to your local schools about this exciting new grant program! Applications and more information can be found online at http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/programs/bigyellow.html

pie

2008-09-28T18:40:00.000-07:00

Ala!-

National Gardening Association

http://www.garden.org/ediblelandscaping/?page=october_recipe

Best-Ever Pumpkin Pie

by Sandra Oliver

There's nothing like the smell and taste of a fresh pumpkin pie hot
out of the oven. It is the quintessential autumn comfort food. Here's a
classic, easy-to-make recipe that features earthy spices and not too
much sugar. Enjoy!

Pie dough for one crust (recipe follows)
2 cups pumpkin puree (from a 3- to 5-pound pumpkin), well drained
1 1/2 cups milk (or one 12-ounce can evaporated milk)
2 eggs
1/2 cup brown sugar (or molasses, or a combination of the two)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg or 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
Rum, bourbon, or vanilla, to taste

Preheat oven to 425 F. Line a 9-inch pie tin with one crust. With a
mixer or wooden spoon, mix pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar or molasses,
spices, salt, and flavoring. Pour into pie crust. Bake for 15 minutes
at 425 F., then reduce the heat to 350 F. and bake for 45 minutes
longer or until center jiggles slightly when pan is shaken. Makes 6 to
8 servings.

Pie Dough for One Crust

1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup chilled vegetable shortening, cut into four cubes
Ice water

Toss the flours together in a broad bowl. Cut in shortening with a
pastry blender, two knives, or better yet, your food processor. Blend
until mixture looks like coarse meal. Add ice water, 1 tablespoon at a
time, tossing flour and shortening mixture with a rubber spatula after
each addition until a ball of dough begins to form. Add only enough to
make the dough cling together. Chill. Roll out to fit a 9-inch pie pan.

family herbal medicine

2008-09-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

2008 Northeast Grassroots Community Herbal Convergence

October 3rd-5th
This year's Convergence will be held at Earthfire Farm in Ashfield, MA

The Community Herbal Convergence is an annual bioregional gathering co-created by herbalists and activists. We are committed to accessibility, diversity, equality, and sustainability within the fields of Clinical and Community Herbalism, and Herbal Education. The convergence is a celebration of honoring ancient roots and new traditions. With our elders, teachers, and plants as guides, we envision healthcare that moves beyond racism, classism, homophobia, sexism, cultural appropriation, environmental degradation, and the corporate takeover of herbal medicine. This gathering is a space for creativity, sharing, education, gratitude, inquiry, healing, and empowerment. Our intention is to support and nourish diverse, inclusive, and reciprocal healthcare networks in the Northeast.

2008-09-06T19:26:00.000-07:00

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/museum/schoolyard.html

2008-09-05T16:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html

www.schoolofthinking.com

2008-08-31T13:27:00.000-07:00

School of Thinking - What are YOUR strengths?

www.schoolofthinking.com

Dr Martin Seligman is the founder of Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology which focuses on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions.

Creativity!

2008-08-31T08:47:00.000-07:00

Meridian Yoga

2008-08-28T08:41:00.001-07:00

Dear Yoga Friends
I hope your summer is going well!

I'm writing you from New Mexico, deep in the Monzano Mountains, near Albuquerque. I'm attending a retreat with a Sufi teacher named Adnan Sardan. He's amazing by the way.
Last May a forest fire burnt part of the retreat center and the surrounding environs, so the mountains are both black and green .... dark with burnt trees and vividly green where new growth is coming.
When I practice yoga outside in the mornings here, and gaze at the mountains I reflect on the cycle of destruction and creation, dramatically evident in front of my eyes. Life is change, so if you're only feeling the aftermath of the fire, look for the birthing too. Find the little bursts of green in the dark areas of your life. These little spurts of life are there and important. Find them and nurture them .... for you and the world too.

Here are some upcoming Yoga trainings .... offered in the spirit of new, courageous, green life. May we all be blessed with that!

Namaste, Mountain
Daniel Orlansky
www.yogaofenergyflow.com

When you feel there is no hope,
be the hope. ~ Yogi Bhajan

http://www.meridianyoga.com/index.shtml
New Birth on the Mountain

House Rules

2008-08-18T10:15:00.000-07:00

Are rather simple really- Be Gentle and Clean up!

Wow Mushroom!

2008-08-18T09:53:00.000-07:00

LOOK!

What IS that?

WOw! It's a mushroom:-)

Oh my! Emmet pointed this out to me on our way to the library- at first I was confused as i thought I might be looking at an ocean booee (sp?) then it truly looked like a dinosour egg, to me. When we went up to it and realized it was a mushroom we were in complete awe!!!

Our best searches on the net reveal this to be an earthball musroom! What a sight:-)
The Audubon Field Guide to New England has a picture of this mushroom and lists it as a Giant Puffball (Calvatia Gigantea) With much curiousity we delved into it and found it rather solid inside, much like a mozzarella ball. Later we found that the lawnmower had shredded it to bits, spores all over the place!

Sunflower Summer

2008-08-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

We just transplanted a whole family of sunflowers to the front of our apt. building-
people are loving them! :-)

Lightening McQueen snowboots!

2008-08-18T09:42:00.000-07:00

Sabba and Savta (Grandparents) sent the coolest gift! A gift certificate for whatever we want-

We got Emmet these awesome light up boots for only 14 bucks or so . . . ok, so they're probably not fair trade. And who knows where they're made . . . still they light up and Emmet is wearing them now in the heat of summer. They're pretty big and yet he can still walk well in them. Yay! Snow boots:-)

Between the Lions LIVE!

2008-08-16T07:40:00.000-07:00

The Academy of Music in Northampton featured a live performance of the lovely lions from PBS Kids.

Read Between the Lions . . . as they say and check out this amazing show to help kids learn to read!

change

2008-08-15T14:09:00.001-07:00

stay motivated more-

2008-08-14T11:07:00.000-07:00

http://greatday.com/motivate/index.html

be the change!

2008-08-11T17:52:00.000-07:00

from heartmath

dancing globally!

2008-08-11T11:56:00.001-07:00

http://drbenkim.com/matt-harding-dancing-around-world.htm

PVC Free!

2008-08-07T08:06:00.001-07:00

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/852/t/2088/signUp.jsp?key=3567

Tile Zen watercolor for children

2008-07-22T18:20:00.001-07:00

A simple tile with watercolor = hours of fun for the beginner's mind of a child.

Simply wash and create anew!

Be sure to document with your handy cam and get creative on the computer.

The possibilities are endless!

R:-)

Chocolate!

2008-06-23T09:01:00.000-07:00

Looking for something fun to do this summer in the kitchen? Something that will also be just as fun to eat-

CHOCOLATE!

Buying in bulk is essential here-

go wild in the kitchen with melted chocolate which can be shaped or drizzled onto a cooking sheet.

Have fun and yum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art!

2008-06-23T08:43:00.000-07:00

Another backyard gem for us to explore- now that school's out take the kids for a day of art and creativity at this spacious
art museum. Plenty for a full day of fun!
R

p.s. send an Eric Carle postcard below

http://www.picturebookart.org/Send_Ecard

Look Park!

2008-06-23T07:43:00.001-07:00

Looking for a fun adventure this summer?

http://www.lookpark.org/

Right in our back yard is the lovely Look Park!

Cardinal Creation!

2008-06-20T14:23:00.001-07:00

A pair of mating Cardinals is dancing in my backyard . . right across the street from the Veteran's Skate Park in Northampton, MA. Beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1h4vGFO_Qg&feature=related

They dance and prance and chirp so loudly.

Here is what i found on the meaning of Cardinals:
Symbolic Meaning of Cardinals
September 28, 2007, 7:56 pm
Filed under: animal symbolism, animal totems, nature, new age, spirituality, symbolism | Tags: animal guides, animals, bird watchers, bird watching, birds, cardinals, meanings, signs, Symbol, thoughts, totems, wildlife, winter

The symbolic meaning of cardinals deals with vibrancy and brilliance.

As we observe the cardinal - particularly against the backdrop of the stark winter months, we are reminded that even when things appear bleak or isolated, there is always the presence of beauty, hope, and love.

Cardinals encourage us to express our brilliance and reveal our truest selves. Their radiant red is a symbol for us to recognize the gifts in our hearts that we have to give to others in love and friendship.

Here is a quick summary of the attributes & symbolic meaning of cardinals:

* Sexuality
* Vibrancy
* Renewal
* Self-reflection
* Friendliness
* Vitality
* Goodwill
* Industry
* Brilliance

More on the symbolic meaning of cardinals can be found here.

http://symbolic-meanings.com/2007/09/28/symbolic-meaning-of-cardinals/

Here is another video, especially pleasant to watch! Enjoy and be well friend,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cmr2IDIbdc&feature=related

Rachel

p.s. Cardinals must really like Holly trees because here is another Holly tree just like the one in our yard and the Cardinal looks red as a berry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS45FgG2LyQ&feature=related

Sweet Cider-making video!

2008-06-18T07:48:00.000-07:00

For a long time now I have wished I could drink cider vinegar for health, but it's just too intense. Now I have found cider syrup . . and I am a very excidered about it! lOL! mix the two and I've got a match made in New England!

http://woodscidermill.com/VIDEO/CiderVideo_Broadband.html

Horse as Healer-Artemis born at the Epona riding community!

2008-06-16T07:17:00.001-07:00

http://taoofequus.com/

Heart Math on Attention!

2008-06-12T17:43:00.001-07:00

green media

2008-06-11T17:54:00.000-07:00

Heart Math on Truth

2008-06-10T18:21:00.000-07:00