Center and 6th Street Park Pavillion
Every Friday – May-October
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Farmers Market
Center and 6th Street Park Pavillion
Every Friday – May-October
Farmers Market
Come shop plants and flowers and other goodies for Mother’s Day! 
Center and 6th Street Park Pavillion
Every Friday – May-October
A Path for Healing People & Planet
We truly, literally, are what we eat. I invite you to pause a moment and let that sink in.
Food is not only the fuel that makes your body run, what you eat forms the building blocks for your cells, for your child’s cells. Our babies, our children are what they eatâphysically, mentally and emotionallyâliterally made of what we give them or allow them to eat.
Once we really understand thisâwitness the truth of itâwe will see every food choice with new eyes. We will clearly see food as energy, as fuel, but also as forming and regulating every cell in our bodyâas immunity boosters and powerfully healing and sustaining.
We’ll want our food and our children’s foodâincluding snacks, treats, holiday favoritesâto have the most light and life force possible and the sugar-filled, chemically-loaded faux foods will no longer have power over us, no matter how skillfully they market to us, no matter how deceptively they are packaged.
We all deserve new traditions based in health and the true happiness that results from eating wellâthe joy that comes from an empowered life, caring for our bodies and our planet, too. -LeAnn Brown, excerpt from l&l life. Read the full post here: Do they really have us that spellbound?
Do you know what regenerative agriculture is? How soil health directly impacts our human health? How the gut microbiome and diversity on the micro and macro level directly impacts our children’s quality of life and our ability to thrive as a species on this plant? Click the links below for introduction videos and links to communities who are offering educational materials on these and other related topics.
A Path for Healing People & Planet
If you would like more information or have any questions, I’m happy to pass along all the (free) resources and research I’ve discovered on my own journey to understand our current health care and food systems and the paradigm shift that needs to happen for the health and wellbeing of our families and future generations on the planet.
Please feel free to email me via the contact form on this site. â„ïž LeAnn
Join us for our 2nd Group Work Day at the Garden!
Everyone is invited to join us at the Community Childrenâs Learning Garden located on the south end of the Mt. View Elementary football field  (9th and Logan).
This will be our second work day at the garden. This time we will be focusing on planting a variety of seeds and starts throughout the garden.
Thank you to the kids of Mt. View Elementary for their artwork and requests!  The number one request was sunflowers, with strawberries as a close second! We will be planting these and much much more. Come see your ideas come to life.
Join us for as much or as little time as youâd like!Â
UPDATE:
Come at 2pm to paint rocks for the garden!
We have a special treat this work day! We are so lucky to have Sherry Weston Thayne from Sherry Weston Art joining us for a garden craft! Â
Please bring your own water bottle (there is water on-site), snacks if youâd like, gloves, small or large shovel. Â And, if you can’t bring anything – please bring yourself and a can-do attitude! ~Kassadi Dunn
If youâd like to know more about the garden and how you can be involved, check out these links:
At the heart of the vision for our Children’s Learning Garden…
At the heart of the vision for our Children’s Learning Garden…
The following simplifies Dr. Zach Bush’s message in one relatively short video and
reaches to the heart of the vision for our learning garden.
Solutions within (!) so please watch and pass along to everyone you care about:
You might also like these resources:
FREE Master class with Zach Bush MD, The Microbiome (with links to much more information and resources on related topics.): Healing Secrets: The Wisdom of Your Microbiome: https://www.onecommune.com/microbiome-zach-bush-md-master-class
https://nontoxicneighborhoods.org and https://www.instagram.com/nontoxicidaho/
Recent News and Resources
excerpt from EWG.org, November 2, 2022: Leaked corporate documents have exposed Syngentaâs attempts to cover up paraquatâs, a popular weedkiller, links to Parkinsonâs disease.
Ground-breaking investigative reporting from the New Lede and the Guardian has exposed hundreds of pages of Syngentaâs internal documents. These documents prove the chemical giant has known since the 1970s that paraquat could accumulate in the brain. But they hid that information from regulators â they lied repeatedly, claiming it could not cross the blood-brain barrier. Even Syngentaâs own research showed the weedkiller could harm the brain.
Paraquat remains one of the most widely used pesticides in the U.S., even though itâs been banned in China, the EU and the UK.
excerpt from EWG.org, August 1, 2022: Mars, the company that makes Skittles, is facing a lawsuit alleging its use of titanium dioxide makes its product âunfit for human consumption.â
But Skittles is just the tip of the iceberg. An EWG analysis has found titanium dioxide in over 3,000 products, including Sour Patch Kids, Starburst, Hostess Cupcakes and Jell-O.
Multiple alarming studies have found that titanium dioxide can break DNA strands and cause chromosomal damage! Because of these health concerns, the EU decided to BAN titanium dioxide as a food additive earlier this year. Meanwhile, in the U.S., titanium dioxide in food remains completely legal! The FDA hasnât even reviewed new science on the chemical since 1966. Ridiculous!
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide – The top 12 chemicals to avoid
Help us keep our garden safe and healthy!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
The primary mission of our Children’s Learning Garden Project:
Growing clean, healthy food and connecting to nature and each other.
As we build our garden together, please remember there are no pesticides or herbicides or other chemicals allowed. Please be mindful of this if you are donating items yourself or you are helping us obtain sponsors/donations:
đ±Only organic (pesticide and herbicide free) materials may be brought into the garden. This includes any materials brought in for composting or mulching.
đ±All seeds and plants…all trees (including non-edible) must be organically derived and grown. No use of chemicals. No GMO seeds or plants.
đ±All donations of lumber and other materials (plastic liners, etc.) must be checked to ensure they are chemical/toxin free and will not leech into the soil.
đ±In addition, we will not accept sponsorship monies from any chemical company or their affiliates.
đ±Please also help us monitor any foods brought in for the children for events or gatherings: An important part of the garden project is to introduce children to healthy eating – making it fun to eat healthy foodstuffs whether fresh from the garden or “treats” made with clean, unprocessed ingredients (see links to recipes below.) Please help us monitor this –
As the project progresses and we begin to host events and gatherings, please send all proposals for food vendors and the like to LeAnn Brown.
đđ» THANK YOU so much for helping us monitor these most important aspects of growing healthy, organic food and teaching the children that healthy eating can be delicious and fun, too! đ LeAnn Brown, Project Initiator/Committee Chair
LINKS to a couple of fun and easy recipes to make with kids:
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/caramel-apple-rings
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/raw-caramel-apples
If you are interested in more yummy recipes for kids (and adults!) – please use the [contact form] to let me know. I have many recipes, recommendations and research I’ve been compiling for the last several years that I am happy to share. đ LeAnn
Recent News and Resources
April 2023: Tests found alarmingly high levels of chlormequat in 12 oat based products including Quaker Oats and Cheerios. See full list and article: EWG Investigation
excerpt from EWG.org, August 1, 2022:  Mars, the company that makes Skittles, is facing a lawsuit alleging its use of titanium dioxide makes its product âunfit for human consumption.â
But Skittles is just the tip of the iceberg. An EWG analysis has found titanium dioxide in over 3,000 products, including Sour Patch Kids, Starburst, Hostess Cupcakes and Jell-O.
Multiple alarming studies have found that titanium dioxide can break DNA strands and cause chromosomal damage! Because of these health concerns, the EU decided to BAN titanium dioxide as a food additive earlier this year. Meanwhile, in the U.S., titanium dioxide in food remains completely legal! The FDA hasnât even reviewed new science on the chemical since 1966. Ridiculous!
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Guide – The top 12 chemicals to avoid
Yoga with Kristi
???? Free! Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class with Kristi Hall-Baldwin.
(Most*) Saturdays, 9 am at the McCammon Depot.
*(Please always confirm schedule w/Kristi in advance of attending.)