Scroll down to see all entries in this "Resources" tab. Click on Bold titles in Blue to go to the corresponding link. As with the entire website, this page is a work in progress and is by no means a comprehensive list of my recommendations...
Cooking & Healthy Eating: (see also "Recipes" tab)
- Cooking for Kids: download this free e-cookbook for fun recipes that appeal to animal-loving kids, inspiring them to eat healthy like the animals. www.blog.doortodoororganics.com/colorado/2013/10/rezoopies/
- The Dirty Dozen: These are the top 12 foods that should be eaten organic when possible, often due to the chemicals used. This link also includes the cleanest foods for those deciding between organic and conventional food choices.
- Whole Life Nutrition Website - for fresh flavorful, whole foods recipes, check out this link www.nourishingmeals.com and the book The whole Life Nutrition Cookbook
- Wild Fermentation: by Sandor Katz - (book and website) recipes for homemade Sauerkraut and other fermented foods
- www.cookusinterruptus.com - online recipes and videos on cooking delicious simple whole foods, despite life's interruptions
- Shop at your local farmers market! Fresh food that has been recently harvested and thus retains many of it's nutrients is best found by buying local! Here is a link to some of them in Seattle, the one's belonging to the Neighborhood's Farmers Market Alliance...www.seattlefarmersmarkets.org. Google your area to find the location and dates of local markets and the farms involved.
- Healthy online recipes using real foods, nutrition & health articles, and the latest in sustainable agriculture, food politics & philosophy... www.foodrenegade.com
- www.archerfriendly.com -- a friend and colleague's website with many tasty yet healthy recipes, an Herb of the Month Spotlight and much more
- Whole Foods Market has many simple, tasty and simple recipes and videos online.
- The blood sugar solution cook book and Dr. Hyman's blog about the eating to balance blood sugar and recognizing food addictions brought on by unnatural eating.
- Smoothie Recipes --smoothies can be an easy way to eat protein and fiber on the go. You can also add probiotics for gut health and liver detoxification foods and herbs. www.bouldernaturalhealth.com/smoothies/ and www.bouldernaturalhealth.com/smoothies-and-snacks/
- Cooking Light Website - though I often use different quality oils and more whole foods based dairy products (such as full fat yogurts, milk etc), this isa good resource for simple and tasty meals. www.cookinglight.com
Eating Gluten-free (and other food allergies & sensitivities):
- www.gluten-free-blog.blogspot.com -- Blog includes Celiac Disease science/medical news plus gluten free recipes, food, product, service, and event info.
Plus, GlutenFree Desserts, Breads, baking tips, and more. - www.celiac.com ... Celiac Disease and Gluten-free Diet Information Since 1995
- Whole Foods Market gluten-free products and resources. They also have links for many other restricted dietary items such as dairy, soy, sugar conscious etc.
- Whole Foods Recipes and resources: Gluten-free (they have links for other food allergies too!)
- www.archerfriendly.com -- a friend and colleague's website with many recipes that are gluten, dairy, soy and sugar-free...and much more
- www.glutenfreegirl.com -- gluten free recipes
- www.bouldernaturalhealth.com/gluten-free-recipes/ -- gluten free recipes by meal category
Homeopathic Medicine: This is a very specific branch or "modality" within Naturopathic Medicine
Homeopathic remedies work great for babies, kids and some adults who are sensitive to them. There are many books available to help the layperson learn to use these gentle remedies for general ailments. One of my favorite books is "Homeopathic Self-Care" by Robert Ullman. You can also find homeopathic home kits with a variety of remedies from Amazon or other places. A company I like to use is Boiron.
Health - miscellaneous topics: (see also "Natural Health" tab)
- Sunscreen guide: The Environmental Working Group puts out a yearly guide to choosing the healthiest sunscreen for you and your entire family.
- The Ten Habits of Happy Mothers: book by Meg Meeker, M.D. - creating new, healthy emotional habits that will vastly improve women's lives. Click the book title for a link to an extensive preview of the book.
Herbal Medicine: (see also "Natural Health" tab)
Medicinal Plant Resources by Dr. Price:
Other Medicinal Plant Resources:
Edible Wild Plants:
Always remember to study, know and clearly identify (with high quality field guides) the plant before you eat them as some are toxic. Please first read the following article link to understand some important basics, then scroll down to take a closer look at specific common wild edible plants in North America. www.twineagles.org/edible-wild-plants.html.
Field Guides to Plants: These depend on your region.
Botany:
- Guide for Medicinal Plants in and Around Rocky Mountain National Park - document at www.hopejourney.weebly.com/medicinal-plants-rmnp.html
- Guide for Identifying, Harvesting and Using Medicinal Plants - document at www.hopejourney.weebly.com/identifying-harvesting-and-using-medicinal-plants.html
Other Medicinal Plant Resources:
- Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth: a great herbal reference book by Sharol Tilgner. ND. It contains many plant profiles with medicinal uses and parts listed by common names as well as info on how to make many of your own herbal medicine preparations.
- Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West by Michael Moore
- Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West by Gregory L. Tilford
- 7 Song: blog, handouts, articles and home page for NE School of Botanical Medicine. A video link to the use of an eye cup for herbal first aid.
Edible Wild Plants:
Always remember to study, know and clearly identify (with high quality field guides) the plant before you eat them as some are toxic. Please first read the following article link to understand some important basics, then scroll down to take a closer look at specific common wild edible plants in North America. www.twineagles.org/edible-wild-plants.html.
- Edible Wild Plants, book by John Kallas PhD -- beautiful illustrations and recipes to help you learn how to recognize and use a variety of common highly nutritious "weeds" as food. For example, he teaches you how to forage for the common mallow plant and make home made marshmallows and whipped topping from it. Learn to identify wild spinach, also known as lamb's quarters, with more nutrients than most of the greens and veggies we normally eat.
- Mountain States Foraging by Briana Wiles – edible plants of the rocky mountains
- Emergency Outdoors Blog
- Mushroom Hunting Resources: scroll to bottom of article to find 2 great identification books, a must have if you are going to eat wild mushrooms because there a poisonous look alikes, but you can learn to differentiate them. www.twineagles.org/morel-mushroom-hunting.html
Field Guides to Plants: These depend on your region.
- Peterson's is a high quality name I trust: Peterson Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs (also one for Eastern and Central North America),
- William A. Weber's Rocky Mountain Flora (the older 1972/4 edition is best. This one is an excellent botanical key and does not have medicinal uses.
- Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, a pocket guide. Clear color photos arranged by flower colors (not a botanical key).
- Rocky Mountain Flower Finder by Janet L. Wingate, Ph.D. contains detailed drawings, descriptions and botanical key.
- Plants of Rocky Mountain National Park by Linda and Richard Beidleman - all plants in this guide are found in RMNP
- Plants of the Rocky Mountains by Kershaw, MacKinnon and Pojar (Lone Pine Field Guide) - these are available for various regions in the US)
Botany:
- Botany in a Day book by Thomas Elpel is a classic and easy primer to botany (you don't need to be a science geek). You'll learn to identify the major families quickly as well as key out many plants across North America using the text. Now available in color edition (but even the black and white is great).
- An herbalist, 7Song, has a blog and handouts that help both beginner and advanced botanists. See also the links above. Here is his Basic Plant Family handout, his Steps to Identification Handout and his Plant Phylogeny Chart as found on his website.
Outdoors and Sustainable Living: (see also "Outdoors" tab and "Sustainable Living" tab)
See also the Edible Wild Plants resources above in the Herbal Medicine section.
Hiking/Backpacking: see also the "Outdoors" tab above.
- Mother Earth News magazine -- www.motherearthnews.com---has been helping folks live self-reliant, sustainable, meaningful lives — and to live lightly on our planet — for more than 35 years. Gardening guides, renewable energy, Do it yourself projects, recipes and more.
- Survival and Emergencies Outdoors: Bow drill fire making. www.wildwoodsurvival.com
- Fox Fire books and magazines
- One Man's Wilderness book and Alone in the Wilderness DVD documentary: An Alaskan Odyssey, by Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke- inspiring documentary of a man who built a cabin by hand in rural Alaska and lived there.
Hiking/Backpacking: see also the "Outdoors" tab above.
- Washington State Hiking Resources: www.wta.org -- Great hiking website for Washington State... including hiking guides, trip finders, seasonal tips and more. Many states have similar sites.
- Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide by Lisa Foster
Gardening, Farming and Permaculture: (see also "Sustainable Living" tab)
- Permaculture: a designers manual --- and other books by Bill Mollison are the "authoritative" books on learning permaculture theory and methods. Free Permaculture lectures by Bill Mollison, the father of modern Permaculture at...www.networkearth.org/perma/culture.html#Permaculture
- Online Permaculture Course (free): I recently came across this and have not tried it yet. Please let me know what you think.
- Gaia's Garden and Toby Hemmingway-- permaculture farming book and articles on permaculture and more
- Mother Earth News magazine ----has been helping folks live self-reliant, sustainable, meaningful lives — and to live lightly on our planet — for more than 35 years. Gardening guides, renewable energy, Do it yourself projects, recipes and more.
- Vegetable Garden Planner --- by Mother Earth News. Determine what to plant and when for your area, find frost dates, design garden beds, keep garden records and more with this electronic app.
- The Greenhorns guide for Beginning Farmers - with the recent movement of many younger people and families to go back to an agrarian lifestyle, this free book was produced by a non-profit, the greenhorns, as a resource. Available for free pdf download. Other associated websites to check out include: thegreenhorns.net, thegreenhorns.wordpress.com, youngfarmers.org, serveyourcountryfood.net, foryoungfarmers.wikispaces.com
Tropical Farming/Gardening:
- ECHO -- www.echonet.org/ and www.echocommunity.org/
- Friends of the Trees - Michael Pilarski has a book that can be purchased for tropical permaculture farming (Hawaii zone 11 type areas)
Children, Nature Connection, Mentoring and Community Building:
- Coyote's Guide to Connecting With Nature -- book by Jon Young, Ellen Haas and Evan McGown. One of my favorite resources for activities and philosophy to help facilitate children's connection to nature.
- What the Robin Knows -- connecting with nature through learning from and listening to birds and their songs.
- Teaching in Nature's Classroom -- book by Nathan Larson. free e-download available.
- Wisconsin School Garden Network -- has an extensive resource library for gardening and its various applications with kids.
- The Nature Principle and Last Child In The Woods -- books by Richard Louv
- Sharing Nature With Children book - by Joseph Cornell -- activities to lead groups of children in experiencing nature through play, observation, deep experience and sharing
- Nature as Spiritual Practice and A Field Guide to Nature as Spiritual Practice by Steven Chase -- book
- Eight Shields: art of mentoring, nature connection, building connections and restoring "villages". Offers several free 1 hour webinars that you will be alerted to by signing up for their newsletter.
- Jon Young - naturalist, tracker, mentor, nature-connection and author...if you get a chance to listen or read from him, I recommend it. He's closely connected with 8 Shields (see above).
- Twin Eagles - Nature and Wilderness Survival School
Non-profit or Volunteer Work: from coming alongside nationals to help sustainably, finding affordable health/trip insurance to adapting to reentry...resources to help make the most of your time and experience in the developing world.
- When Helping Hurts - must read book before you work in the developing world, if even for one week. free summary here.
- When Healthcare Hurts: An Evidence Based Guide For Best Practices In Global Health Initiatives -- free PDF book here.
- Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development
- Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot - And Cold - Climate Cultures
- Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
- The Chalmers Center - www.chalmers.org/
- The International Volunteer card: health and travel insurance, discounts and more
- Fly for Good: Airfare for humanitarian work
- Community Health Evangelism: sharing the love of Jesus through community health work. The book: Multiplying Light and Truth.
- Coping with Reverse Culture Shock: it is real!
- University of Delaware's "How to Cope with Reverse Culture Shock"
- "Culture Shock Education and Debriefing Exercise for Reentry" document developed by my colleagues at Naturopaths Without Boarders.
- "The Art of Reentry" a doctor's perspective from his time in Haiti.
Good Reads: Many more to come, eventually... (see also "Book Review" entry on Blog)
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown - How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love and lead
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder about Dr. Paul Farmer on his pioneering, inspirational and transformational grass roots medical work in Haiti, Cuba, Peru and more. An easy read for anyone.
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis - an excellent short but raw and honest experience in the grieving process, a friend to any who is grieving a loss.
- Nature Doctors: Pioneers in Naturopathic Medicine - history of naturopathic medicine
- There Is Always Enough by Heidi and Rolland Baker - really inspiring book of stories of how God provided for the poor in war torn Mozambique through this couple and their ministry.
- Deep Survival: Who Lives and Dies and Why - the psychology and determination of survival.
- Escaping The Fire - a man's story of his village during the Guatemalan Civil War of the 1980's.
- Bold Love: the Courageous Practice of Life's Ultimate Influence by Dr. Dan Allender
Art and Beauty
- Andy Goldsworthy - is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He collaborates with nature to create beautiful art. www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html
-- A DVD, Rivers and Tides
Support for Quitting Smoking:
- help in making a plan to quit smoking www.quitday.org/
- American Cancer Society Support - www.cancer.org/treatment/index
- how meditation and alternative medicine can help smokers quit https://quitday.org/quit-smoking/alternative-medicine/
Other Great Resources:
- Free downloadable media and education: www.openculture.com - has free ebooks, audiobooks, movies, language lessons, courses and more
- Free Yoga Online Classes: www.doyogawithme.com