Classes
Food, Health & Wellness
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Make Your Own
Soymilk & Tofu
Learn how to transform two cups of soybeans into two gallons of milk, or two pounds of the lightest, silkiest, sweetest, tastiest, tenderest tofu you'll ever put in your mouth. Only 45 minutes to make this versatile food that's economical, ecological and nutritious.
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Food is our Best Medicine
Six of ten leading causes of death are due to diet. Eating food has become a sure way to an early, unnatural end—a kind of dietary suicide for civilized humans. Yet, food can be for healing. Careful, conscious eating can create health. But in today's confused convenience culture, how do we know what to eat? And how to cook foods and combine them in healthy, balanced, tasty meals? Learn the basics.
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Acid & Alkaline
a quest-ion of balance
The most critical chemical factor in your body is acid-alkaline balance your pH. A farmer growing our food knows to test his soil pH (acid/base ratio) before he plants his seed. While acid rain causes sickness and death in trees and lakes, acid blood is the background to many physical aches, chronic illnesses and degenerative diseases. Learn to live in the "neutral zone" by choosing and cooking foods to create healthy balance in your blood chemistry.
Can you pass the litmus test?
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Trace Elements
& Electrolytes
minerals in health and sickness
Minerals provide the electric charges needed to allow our body's biochemistry to react-and us to sense, think and act. Electrolytes are the sparks that charge cells with enzymes to make biochemistry react. Twenty six minerals are essential for healthy human nutrition. Fifteen are trace elements-needed in parts per million or less. Trace elements fire our immune system into optimum effectiveness. Farm chemicals, water treatment and food processing deplete minerals-especially trace elements- from our soils, foods and water. Assure you get enough of all the minerals your body needs for optimum health, physical energy and immune system function.
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Is Milk a Natural?
health problems from dairy
A host of common sicknesses are caused by "milk allergy"—or, more accurately, inability to digest milk. By medical statistics, 40 to 95% of Americans are "lactose intolerant"—unable to digest milk sugar -- the percent varying by race and ethnic origin. But the real problems with milk are the proteins, fats, and hormones. Find out if you have milk allergy.
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Sugar Blues
carbohydrates in health & sickness
Plants spin sunshine into sugar, combining carbon dioxide and water to make carbohydrates. Thus, solar radiance is ultimate energy source for living things, including humans. Each year each American eats 120+ pounds of refined sugars that lack fiber, vitamins and minerals required for digestion and metabolism. The result is a host of metabolic and degenerative diseases.
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Where's the Beef?
introduction to vegetarian diets
Health and medical experts recommend reduced consumption of red meat and animal foods. Many common diseases are linked to high-fat, high-cholesterol, high-protein diets with meat as the main food. But eschewing meat means more than avoiding animal food. Careful, conscious choices are needed to assure enough proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Fortunately, rules for healthy eating are simple and easy to follow. Vegetarian diets are much more diverse, tasty and nutritious than meat-based meals.
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Special Classes
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L.I.F.E.
sustainable regional food systems
A Locally Integrated Food Economy assures the health and wealth of a community. Today, NY imports over 80% of its food, much of it traveling 1000 miles r more to our table.
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The Serpent & the Egg
Rediscover Sacred Space in Nature
Ancient peoples erected earthen mounds, standing stones and other monuments to honor holy places. Up and down the Hudson Valley, unrecognized remnants of these prehistoric people still stand as silent sentinels of a forgotten past and lost culture. Today, modern we must renew our connections to land as living organism and vibrant energy matrix.
Special Events
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Dragon Hunting
Hidden in the Hudson-Mohawk region are ancient ruins from a time before written record or human memory. Many of these artifacts are man-made earthen mounds, such as Snake Hill on the southeast Saratoga Lake shore. We investigate, document and map these antiquarian sites. Join a Sunday quest for sacred spaces in a forgotten landscape.
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