Fit Fare

If you watch a lot of movies, then you’re probably familiar with Toronto’s City Hall building and the adjoining park, Nathan Phillips Square. Starring in 2004’s Resident Evil and 2006’s The Sentinel, our futuristic city hall gets a decidedly more rural look each Wednesday morning as the farmers roll in and set up their wares.
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The Sandy Hook Village Farmers Market located at 5 Glen Road, near the Red Brick Tavern, isn’t one of those great big markets where there are dozens of vendors selling everything from corn to jam, though both corn and jam are usually available. And it’s not one of those markets where you can spend hours […]

If you’re trying to eat a more healthy diet, the Farmers’ Market is your best friend with its abundance of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. But if you’re like me, it can be a bit overwhelming. Here in the Midwest, we’re in the middle of summer, so there’s plenty from which to […]

Sometimes you just need to rely on more products than you’d like, but luckily in this new dawn of taking care of ourselves better, manufacturers are actually keeping their eyes (and their ingredients) on producing products that are more heart-healthy.
A recent issue of Heart-Healthy Living magazine unleashed their top 10 list of the newest good-for-you […]

As summer heats up, there are few more congenial places to while away a day in the greater Seattle area than Vashon Island. Perhaps it is the influence of Puget Sound pooling at its feet and the lavish peppering of verdant woods that make the ambiance much more chill. And I’m not just […]

Growing up, I never heard of a farmers market. If we wanted good produce, we grew it or bought our vegetables and fruit from wonderful roadside stands operated by individual farmers. Although farmers markets now flourish in the United States, few existed before 1980. How times have changed! There are now 500 […]