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WARNING: Plant-Based Thanksgiving

| Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, Holidays, Plant to Plate, Plant-Based Cuisine, Raw, Raw Food, Thanksgiving, Travel, Vegan, WholeFood
November 24, 2011

Preparing my first raw, plant-based Thanksgiving dinner, poolside.2006Little did I know… I’ll never forget my first raw, plant-based Thanksgiving. Poolside in Key Largo, I was slicing, dicing and blending beautifully colored, tropically grown produce into these creations that smelled, looked and tasted OUT OF THIS WORLD. My kids were picking...
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Birth Announcement: Wesley Parkton Drake

| Chester and Wesley, Fun, Puppies, Travel, WholeHome
November 12, 2011

Wesley Parkton DrakeSeptember 4, 2011Italian Greyhound We just picked up our new little puppers in Parkton, NC and are bringing him home today. Welcome to our family baby Wesley!!! XOXOXOXOXOXO *Fair Warning to any blogosphere creepers out there: Wesley may look cute and cuddly at the moment, but he’s going to...
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Taking Time to Stop and Count the Butterflies

| Field Trip, Free, garden, Gardening, Green Living, Travel
September 8, 2011

Karner Blue Butterfly Feeding on Horsemint Fortunately I have friends like Deb who volunteer me for things like driving two hours away to count butterflies in the middle of a forest on a super hot summer day (actually two super hot summer days). Deb and I are Master Naturalist neophytes and as such...
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Visiting Martha Stewart’s Garden

| Fun, garden, Gardening, Giving, Martha Stewart, Travel
September 15, 2010

Shaun Kass, Martha’s Head Gardener, and I pose in front of Martha’s conservatory. Over a year ago I came up with a unique fundraising idea for my nonprofit, The Giving Gardens, a celebrity plant auction. I asked Martha Stewart if she would donate and she said yes! The auction named,...
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Richard Gere & Carey Lowell Plant-it-Forward From Their New Inn, The Bedford Post

| Design, garden, Gardening, Giving, Plant-Based Cuisine, Travel, WholeFood
May 18, 2010

We felt like taking our shoes off at the bottom of the stairs when we (my sister, Janet and I) first arrived at the Bedford Post Inn. The comfortable atmosphere made us feel like we were welcomed guests to a beautiful home and as such you usually take your shoes...
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