Why Macrobiotics is my Favorite Big Word

Why Macrobiotics is my Favorite Big Word – A children’s book by Emma Holister

Originally published in 1998 in black and white by the Kushi Institute. Now available here online, in colour and free!

Hello, my name is Lucy and I like big words. Sometimes people don’t understand what I’m saying . . .
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How To Grow Your Own Winter and Indoor Greens

Growing micro-greens salad – a photo step-by-step
by Emma Holister

Growing your own micro-greens is not only the easiest, cheapest and most rapid way to grow your own salads, but is also a guarantee of the highest nutrient level, freshness and organic purity of your food.
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Ah, Whole Foods

A couple years ago, in the San Francisco branch of Whole Foods Market, off of steep and divisionary slope of Van Ness Blvd, I picked up a flat package containing a fistful of cold, cooked white rice, and a few pieces of bloody tuna thrown this way and that. I brought it to the help desk, and asked, “What is this?


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