Approximately 64 percent of U.S. adults own a grill or smoker, but common practices are bad for the environment. Fortunately, many great chefs have the problem covered with delicious alternatives to traditional, carbon-emitting methods.

In the early 1930s, Bach settled on 38 healing flowers and trees that would become his signature Bach Flower Remedies. They have been a valued healing modality to countless many throughout the world since then.

In yoga, we call this all-encompassing energy “prana,” and most yoga practices focus on optimizing the healthy flow of prana within the body. Yoga asana uses movement to free stagnated prana and release tensions that can cause “dis-ease” and pain, feelings of lethargy, anxiety and depression.

As the bad news in 2020 droned on and on about rage politics, indecision, mass murders, racial reckoning and inert and inept politicians, my four walls started to close in on me. So many of the ideals and truths that I held sacred were being washed away by a raging sea of newfangled hatred.

The organization’s newest award, Farmer Champion, went to Chris Wilkins of Root Baking Co., Steven Satterfield of Miller Union, Stevenson Rosslow of Wrecking Bar, and Hugh Acheson and Sam Herndon of Empire State South.

The theme of this year’s raw food competition at the Wonderful Wizards of Raw, a lively three-day festival celebrating raw food, was “aphrodisiacs,” and the winners were: Larese Dockery of IAMOH Herbals in first place; Chanda Lee of Embrace Raw Living in second; and Satice of Mela9ated Magic in third.

Founded in 1998 within the cohousing community of East Lake Commons (ELC), Gaia Gardens is a five-acre organic garden with two pole barns, a heated greenhouse, two high tunnels, two walk-in coolers, three sheds, two tractors and tools and implements.

The CBD Joint, founded by Roz Grigger in 2019, opened its second store in Smyrna in mid-June. The new storefront is located at 668 Windy Hill Road SE in Smyrna; its first store is at 801 Church Street, Unit 100, in Marietta.