Melanie Gage, Author at Life's Pure Balance

Best of the Nest:

May 19, 2021/in Best of the Nest, health and wellness, healthy living, Natural cleaning products, News, Twin Cities Live

Misplaced Trust and How to Clean Contaminated Food

April 6, 2021/in Children's health, Eco friendly cleaning products, Environmentally friendly cleaning products, Food Packaging, food safety, Fruit and vegetable wash, Green cleaning products, health and wellness, healthy living, Natural cleaning products, News, Non toxic to children, Non toxic to pets

Who is Responsible for the Quality of our Food?

October 5, 2020/in Children's health, Eco friendly cleaning products, Environmentally friendly cleaning products, food safety, Fruit and vegetable wash, Green cleaning products, health and wellness, healthy living, Natural cleaning products, Non toxic to children, Nutrition

Who is Responsible for the Quality of our Food? By Bill Adler, MPH, RS Technical Food Safety Consultant My wife and I just finished a Sustainable Food class through the community college. I was thinking it was going to be about sustainable agriculture, but to my eternal surprise, it proved to be much better. The […]

What you can Learn from a Label.

August 25, 2020/in Children's health, Eco friendly cleaning products, Environmentally friendly cleaning products, food safety, Fruit and vegetable wash, Green cleaning products, health and wellness, healthy living, Natural cleaning products, Non toxic to children, Nutrition

What you can Learn from a Label. By Bill Adler, MPH, RS Technical Food Safety Consultant Yesterday, I met with a farming friend who has a couple of college degrees and a smattering of super intense biochemistry courses under his belt. We spent some time talking about the Bayer payout of $9 billion dollars to […]

Carry Over

July 14, 2020/in Children's health, Eco friendly cleaning products, Environmentally friendly cleaning products, food safety, Fruit and vegetable wash, Green cleaning products, health and wellness, healthy living, Natural cleaning products, Non toxic to children, Nutrition

“Carry-Over” By Bill Adler, MPH, RS Technical Food Safety Consultant Last week, I visited friends who live in very rural Winona County. They live on a piece of land I would describe as ‘God’s Country’ because it is coiffed with prairie meadows of natural flowers, tall grass, butterflies, and tall sweetcorn. Seriously, I expected Julie […]