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Nutrition, wellness consultant

Anna Dvorak is a personal guide for living a vibrantly healthy life. Dvorak teaches at the Wedge Co-op and other Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area co-ops, at Local D’Lish, and leads weekend retreats focused on exploring balanced living. She teaches how healthier choices can be attainable for our skin, home environment and bodies through natural products, organic ingredients, and balanced living. Read more about Anna Dvorak.

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Think about your food. And enjoy.

Inspired by the season but put into practice all year long, my recipe for eating and living well is part love, part appreciation, and part thanks - mixed well, stirred often, and shared with everyone around me. More…

Rethinking the food budget

What if a choice to move toward organic ingredients could help wean us away from poor food choices, by focusing on the bottom line of the food budget? More…

Sourcing affordable, organic foods

If you have made a goal of incorporating more organic foods into your diet, it can be helpful to find ways to turn that intention into a habit - and learning how to make affordable choices can help that habit to stick. More…

Our local food coops create a healthy, vibrant community

October is National Cooperative Month. I feel fortunate to live in a community that values the food coop movement to such a large extent which provides us with incredible access to healthy, local and organic foods year-round. More…

Affordable Organic and Local Food?

There is a method to shopping for what you believe in, if you choose to start buying organic and local foods for your family. In a multi-part blog series on this topic, I’m going to explore the most commonly asked questions in a way that makes the most sense to me. More…

Simple. Good. Food.

There is a lot of food and health news in the air this week – and it came with plenty of weather. Some bad, some good. More…

What's all the fuss over probiotics?

Traditional fermented foods are a time-tested answer to the current debate about the help vs hype of probiotic supplements or supplemented foods. More…

More Seasonal and Local Eating - It Just Tastes Better

Eating foods chosen at the peak of their flavor gives us more satisfaction while preserving summer vegetables prolongs the pleasure we derive from eating locally and seasonally. Peppers are the vegetable of the moment - abundant and ripe at local farmers' markets - and they are easy to roast and freeze for year-round use. More…

Eating Seasonally in Tomato Heaven

Food always tastes best when you use ingredients that are at the peak of ripeness and flavor during the season in which they are abundant and locally available. Right now, that spells tomato! More…

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