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Freshly Grown

Rama is a Holistic Nutritionist and Mama to 2. She resides in the Pacific NW and enjoys good food with great company, date nights with her husband and quality time with her Littles. "Eighty percent of our immunity lies in our gut. What we eat matters. When we focus on whole, unprocessed foods and begin to lessen our toxic load in all aspects of our life, we become nourished and we heal at the cellular level."

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Juicing + A Road Trip

Welcome to Freshly Grown! This week: Juicing + A Road Trip. My mom’s taking off…

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Fresh Juice, Juicing Recipes

Burst of Sunshine

Burst of Sunshine Ingredients 2 carrots 1 orange 1/2 apple 1/2 in. ginger Buy organic!…

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Fresh Juice

Juicing Road Trip

Every time my Little Guy gets in the car to go somewhere he always says,…

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Fresh Juice

Juicing 101

Juicing is like a potent IV of vitamins, phytonutrients, and minerals. With every chug, you…

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Cooking Tips + How-Tos, Farm, Fresh Eats, Fresh Life

break a chicken. 1 bird. 9 pieces. the easy way. warning: video not for vegans or vegetarians!

Fudehouse shows us how to ‘break a chicken’ (is it just me, or does that…

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Farm, Food Politics, Fresh Life

From Pasture to Plate: Small-Scale vs. Factory-Farmed Poultry

I asked my farmer friend, Jerry, to tell me a bit about the chickens on…

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Food Politics, Fresh Life

What Has Massive Breasts, a Weak Heart, and a Lifespan of 42 Days?

I didn’t come up with this clever title. Tom Philpott of Mother Jones did. His…

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Faith + Soul, Farm, Fresh Life

Epiphany’s Call

‘If you knew that by saying yes in your own life, another will see to…

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Food Politics

Welcome.

Welcome to Freshly Grown. Over the next week or so I’ll be sharing all things…

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Food Politics, Fresh Life, Get Started

Freshly Grown’s Egg Buying Guide

For those of us who purchase eggs, the choices seem endless and confusing with so…

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{Elise Bauer // Simply Recipes}
Cooking Tips + How-Tos, Fresh Eats

How-To Make the Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg

I found this blog article several years ago and have made hard-boiled eggs this way…

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Food Politics, Fresh Life

2 Reasons to Reconsider the Eggs You Buy

Of course chickens should run around and do their chicken thing and be fed and…

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Farm, Fresh Life

Chickens on the TODAY Show

‘A new craze from the country is making its way to big cities like New…

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Farm, Fresh Life

Urban Chicken Keeping

“It’s really not that crazy to think that people are doing this [urban chicken keeping],”…

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Farm, Fresh Life

Backyard Chicken Keeping 101

I thought it was just a Portland thing, you know one of Portlandia’s running jokes,…

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Farm, Food Politics, Fresh Life

Chickens & Waste

‘Chickens can be of community and civic service. One standard chicken eats about 8 pounds…

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Farm

A Chicken’s Dream

{said the chicken}

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Farm, Food Politics, Fresh Life

Portlandia: Is the Chicken Local?

Laughtastic! Soo Portland. Although this clip completely makes fun of Portlanders to a T, as…

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Farm, Fresh Life

Chicken Little

I will never forget my little one’s first run-in with chickens. He was mesmerized. J…

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Farm, Fresh Life

Why Chickens?

Why Chickens? Short story: I met a chicken farmer and what he said changed my…

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Hi, I'm Rama (rayma). Cancer Survivor turned Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Whole Foods Advocate and Essential Oils Renegade. Welcome!

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