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Super Fruits: Exotic Juices for Health

In the last few years there has been an explosion of exotic new fruit juices introduced to the market. These super fruits are packed with antioxidants and promise to deliver everything from improved eyesight to happiness. In general, much research remains to be done, but it’s safe to say the antioxidants and vitamins in these super fruits can enhance a healthy lifestyle, so drink up!... more

Vitamin B Family

The B vitamins are a family of nutrients that work most efficiently when taken together as they naturally appear in food. They contain some of nature’s most synergistic vitamins and are essential in energy production, proper digestion, maintaining the nervous system, red blood cell production, healthy immune systems and proper function of the heart... more

Rodale  Begins Mission to Fight Global Warming - with Farms
"I would like to share this release from the Rodale Institute - it's message is promising. John"
New CEO Tim LaSalle Calls Organic Farming “The Brightest Hope for Our Planet”  Rodale Institute has proved that organic practices, sometimes referred to as regenerative farming, can remove about 7,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year and sequester it in an acre of farmland. Thus if all 434 million acres of American cropland... more

Nature Nurtures

You don’t have to be a master gardener to experience the calming effect of a lush landscape - even if it’s a photograph. How much more heightened the feeling is, when you’re in the garden surrounded by the sun-warmed scent of wisteria, lilacs, and roses. The resulting physical and mental calm relieves the sense of urgency to do other planned activities... more 

Heirloom Seeds

Brightly colored seed packets are springing up all around us. Did you know that almost all seed packets contain hybrid seeds? Hybridized plants are the result of a cross between two varieties, bred for lasting color, uniform size and the ability to ripen at the same time for harvesting and distribution purposes. Not only is flavor often lost in the translation, but hybrids can’t reproduce themselves... more

Earth Household

You might be surprised that the #1 source of pollution to rivers and ponds is right outside your door. All living creatures depend on an unimpaired water cycle. When water is fouled or disrupted, organisms that depend on that cycle can die. Storm water is untreated water that flows across streets, parking lots, driveways and into storm drains... more

Brookview Maple Syrup

Delisse Locher and Harold Cable of Brookview Sugar House produce maple syrup the old fashioned way. They collect sap from trees on about 12 acres of land in Cornwall Hollow and Litchfield, bringing it back to their sugar house in Morris where they boil it over a wood-fueled fire for many hours until it reduces down into that thick, sweet, amber colored syrup we all love... more

Immune Support

There are many things you can do to protect yourself from the sniffles, sneezes, coughs, and colds of winter. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and starting with a healthy lifestyle and diet is the best thing you can do for your health... more

Fair Trade

Although we grow delicious fruits and vegetables in our own backyard, we import many products we can’t grow like coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar and spices. Most of these items come from developing countries in Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. Fair Trade certification helps these farmers earn a decent living. It focuses on a number of principles to ensure that high environmental standards  more

Laurel Ridge Beef

After reading an article in the New York Times about using cattle to keep pasture land clear, John Morosani of Laurel Ridge, in Litchfield, thought he had a way to keep old hay fields under control without damaging his mowing equipment. With his friend Jim, he fenced in 10 acres and purchased some cows. John and Jim were rewarded
Laurel Ridge cows get plenty of pasture and eat only... more

Fresh Food To Go

Snacks eaten between meals or as a meal substitute, while “ready-to-go,” are often high in fat, salt and sugar. Since adults frequently skip meals and growing children need more energy than they can get from a single meal, it’s important to build food value into daily routines. Healthy snacks help maintain energy levels, good nutrition, and proper weight... more

Local Vegetables

The dog days of summer are the heyday of local vegetable harvests. While the hot and humid weather causes many of us to retreat to the air conditioning or the pool, local farmers are spending long days in the field bringing in an abundant variety of vegetables they have been patiently fussing over all season.... more

Harvesting and Preserving Herbs

Harvesting and preserving herbs is a lovely task that allows you to continue enjoying herbs from your garden throughout the year. On grey winter days when you’re missing the aromas, flavors, and textures of your favorite plants, your preserved harvest can make you feel as if you’re still in your garden... more


Greens now!

Dark green vegetables like kale, spinach, watercress and broccoli are the richest source of dietary Vitamin K around. One serving of spinach or two servings of broccoli provides four to five times the recommended daily allowance of phylloquinone or Vitamin K... more

 
Picnic Naturally

Summer is the season for picnics and New Morning is the source for all you need for a “green” picnic. With a little planning, you can enjoy delicious food and easy clean-up. When thinking about what food to bring, go for items that don’t need to be kept cool. Try a pressed sandwich of pesto, spinach, blue cheese and roasted red peppers on a baguette... more



Vegetarian Verve

As we enter the season when local produce is abundant and delicious, you may notice your diet shifting to include more vegetables and fruits. This is a good time of year to consider going vegetarian. Vegetarians typically do not eat meat, poultry, fish, or any products made with animal derivatives. People change to a vegetarian... more
 
Verdant Pastures

Local food proponent, nutritionist, and author Joan Gussow once quipped, “As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.” Pasture-raised cows, sheep, and goats tend to be healthier (and happier) when they get to live as nature intended. By eating grass and other plants, they get all the nutrition they need from natural sources, and produce higher quality meat.. more

Herb Gardening

Herbs are captivating plants that wow us with their flavor, fragrance, and medicinal uses. Luckily you don’t need a formal vegetable or herb garden to plant some of these treats; you can grow them in pots or tuck these versatile plants into a perennial border or a foundation planting... more

Clean Gardening

One of our most precious resources is fresh water and, unfortunately, many of the herbicides, fertilizers, and pesticides that we put on our lawns and gardens end up there. Chemicals don’t recognize property boundaries. They do their job on your lawn, and then sink into the ground where they slowly make their way into... more


Chocolate Love

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we hear about many ways to woo the loves in our lives using certain foods or drinks. Many foods are purported to be aphrodisiacs, including asparagus, radishes, potatoes, and pine nuts. As delicious as all these items are, they can’t hold a candle to our obsession for chocolate. Theobroma, the botanical species... more


In a Pickle.
For thousands of years, cultures all over the world have preserved everything from cabbage to plums without the aid of modern methods like freezing or canning. They used a natural process called lacto-fermentation in which salt and spices are added to the vegetables or fruit; the mixture is then pounded ... more


New Year!
The beginning of a new year often brings with it renewed promises to take better care of ourselves. But taking care of ourselves isn’t always easy—integrating exercise and healthful meals into a busy life is hard to do. At New Morning we recognize that just a little effort goes a long way and we want to make it easier for you to live a more holistic life this year... more


Powerful Potato

One potato, two potato, three potato, four…you know how the nursery rhyme goes. But why stop at seven? It looks like we don’t. Potatoes are the number one vegetable crop in the U.S., with each person consuming over 135 pounds of them each year... more


Fall Rubies

The ruby-colored cranberry is one of the gems of the New England fall harvest. From mid-September into November, the boggy lowlands of Massachusetts- the second largest producer of cranberries in the U.S.- are flooded for easy harvesting.  Since cranberries are hollow, they float on the water, creating... more

Pilgrims and Pumpkins.

The Pilgrims learned to grow pumpkins, corn and beans from the Native Americans, to sustain them during the long winters in the New World. Early settlers created spicy pumpkin pie as a substitute for the meat pies they missed from their homeland. Today, pumpkins are mainly thought of for jack-o-lanterns and pies... more

The Whole Truth

Whole grains are a fabulous addition to a healthy diet.  The US Department of Agriculture recommends 3-6 servings of grains daily.  At least ½ of them should be “whole” grains as they offer the greatest benefits.  Kansas State University analyzed 45 studies covering 20 types of cancer and concluded that whole grains had a protective effect in 43 of them.  Whole grain foods can help decrease blood pressure... more

Great Bones

If you're between the ages of 18 and 44, there's a good chance you didn’t get enough Vitamin K today. Once thought to be plentiful in the American diet, there’s now evidence that people over age 13, get half the recommended daily dosage. Everybody knows that healthy bones need calcium. Less known is the fact that Vitamin K is the “glue” that plugs calcium into the bone matrix... more

Autumn Apples

No wonder, ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ The health benefits of apples are endless. Bioflavonoids (especially abundant in apples) are important because they assist in the absorption of Vitamin C and maintain the integrity of the blood vessel  walls. Some bioflavonoids are also potent antioxidants. Antioxidants help the body prevent oxidation, increase immune function and can decrease... more

Beef Phobia

If you’ve been hesitant to include beef in your diet, you’re not alone.  Beef has now been associated with everything from heart disease to colon cancer.  In truth, red meat provides complete protein, including sulphur-containing proteins like cysteine.  It’s a rich source of taurine and carnitine, important for healthy eyes and provides a key nutrient for the cardiovascular system—coenzyme Q10... more

Too Refined?

If you eat the typical “American” diet you probably don’t get enough fiber. Americans tend to consume large amounts of refined grains and not enough fruits and vegetables. Fiber is an indigestible complex carbohydrate found in plants- a weight watcher’s dream. High fiber foods are low in fat and contribute to a feeling of fullness without the calories... more

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