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		<title>Book Review: All Natural* by Nathanael Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard about the new book “All Natural” by Nathanael Johnson, I was immediately intrigued.  There are not many writers who delve openly and honestly into questions about whether “natural” approaches to eating, childbirth, and medicine are actually healthier. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/book-review-all-natural-by-nathanael-johnson/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1970&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yom Ha Shoah: Remembering to Remember</title>
		<link>http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/yom-ha-shoahremembering-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>On the Lettuce Edge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the start of Yom Ha Shoah or Holocaust Memorial Day.  I feel like whoever set up the Jewish calendar made a strategic mistake by placing Holocaust Memorial Day after Passover when everyone is exhausted and just getting back &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/yom-ha-shoahremembering-to-remember/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1862&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Grown Ups: A Haggadah Supplement</title>
		<link>http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-four-grown-ups-my-haggadah-supplement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was thinking and reading a little about the four children in the Passover Hagaddah, which are usually depicted as the wise child, the wicked child , the simple child and the child who is too young to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-four-grown-ups-my-haggadah-supplement/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1848&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Time Hurry</title>
		<link>http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/spring-time-hurry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- A  guest post by husband/farmer Scott Hertzberg (who tried to post this on his blog but it wound up here, he says) &#160; We have had a real winter this year capped off with snow a few days into &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/spring-time-hurry/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1821&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Children and Parents Engaged at Passover Seders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece originally ran in the Washington Jewish Week. With Passover just a few days away, most of us still have a long list of things to accomplish.  Between cleaning the house, removing chametz, shopping, gathering recipes and planning a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/keeping-children-and-parents-engaged-at-passover-seders/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1818&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Passover Parenting Fail</title>
		<link>http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/my-passover-parenting-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece originally ran at Kveller.com. On the way home from Sunday school, my tiny children asked so many uncomfortable questions. They asked about God, and death, and bad guys, and then something even worse. That Egyptian child from the tenth &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/my-passover-parenting-fail/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1807&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shabbat and Farming Piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us in in the mid-Atlantic are hopeful that tonight will bring our first real snowstorm of the winter.  We need the moisture and I am ready for a nice mid-week snow day. Maybe it will give me a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/shabbat-and-farming-piece/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1774&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check out Food Politic &#8211; A Newborn Journal</title>
		<link>http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/check-out-food-politic-a-newborn-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I seem to be becoming a regular on Twitter (follow me @thelettuceedge)  I am finding out about millions of great things that are happening in the world.  I think that is where I learned about a new online journal &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/check-out-food-politic-a-newborn-journal/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1737&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chickweed and my Jewish Farming Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend my family attended this amazing retreat in Baltimore, the Beit Midrash at the Pearlstone Center.  You can read my article about the retreat in the Jewish Daily Forward here. I have to say  absolutely love pluralistic Jewish events, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/chickweed-and-my-jewish-farming-retreat/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1733&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoop Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we seem to always be building or rebuilding a new hoophouse around here.  And with each one, we pin our new hopes for an amazing farm year.   I remember talking to one of the Mennonite farmers we work with &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thelettuceedge.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/hoop-dreams/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelettuceedge.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19837598&#038;post=1729&#038;subd=thelettuceedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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