The Healthy Planet Natural Living Expo Returns September 26 at the Webster Groves Recreation Complex
Photo Caption: Chair massages by Healing Arts Center are a popular part of the Natural Living Expo.
The Healthy Planet magazine is proud to announce the return of our Natural Living Expo, Sunday, September 26, 10 to 4 pm at the Webster Groves Recreation Complex, 33 East Glendale Road, 63119. Exhibitor reservations are now being accepted. [click headline to read more]
The Deep Connections of Native Plants
By Linda Wiggen Kraft, Healthy Planet Green & Growing Editor
A garden isn’t only a collection of plants, it is a community of connections. It is a network of life forms and forces, an eco-system. Plants, insects, birds, soil, sun, rain are each part of the connection. The strongest connections are those of native plants and native [click headline to read more]
Tackling Rising Summer Temps to Help St. Louisans Breathe Easier
Article courtesy of the Clean Air Partnership
Climate change is driving warmer temperatures, making ozone pollution more likely to form and harder to clean up, according to the findings of the latest “State of the Air” report from the American Lung Association. Although the three years covered in the latest report (2017-2019) were somewhat cooler than [click headline to read more]
Earthworms’ Castings: Why We Can’t Recycle Garden Pots
By Jean Ponzi
Very sorry to have to report that our regional Plastic Pot Recycling remains suspended.
Fellow gardeners, I know you are sustainability minded — and practical. I hope this summary of issues and some options will be useful, even while we cannot recycle our pots.
Wasn’t Plastic Pot Recycling “suspended” in spring 2020? Why is it [click headline to read more]
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome – A Functional Medicine Approach
By Dr. Amy Davis, MD
Functional Medicine provides a new way of thinking about chronic disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) which can impact 1 in 6 people and is entirely correctable.
Typical symptoms of IBS include:
BloatingGasDistentionConstipationDiarrhea that often comes on after a mealCramping
Each person with IBS may have a different cause even though the symptoms are [click headline to read more]
Shawnee Forest Weekends
Photo Caption: Trail fun in the Shawnee National Forest
Prehistoric Mississippians stalked deer and lived comfortably atop a cliff overlooking what is now the Shawnee National Forest, named for the defiant ones lead by Tecumseh into these lands. [click headline to read more]
Publisher’s Corner: This Big Cat Is Turning 70 in July
July brings many things, hot days, muggy nights, cicadas, butterflies, fireworks, barbeque, swimming pools, baseball, picnics, fireflies and birthdays. My birthday is in July. I am a Leo. And in July my birthday will find me turning 70. I am glad to have made it to 70 since my father passed at 48 and my [click headline to read more]
Conservation Corner: You Just Can’t Trust a Killdeer
By Dan Zarlenga, Missouri Department of Conservation
Photo Caption: What’s this killdeer up to? It could launch into an elaborate deception at any minute. Photo by Dan Zarlenga
Some creatures in nature are just plain deceptive. The killdeer is one of those types.
Killdeers are birds that belong to the group of shorebirds called plovers. Like most shorebirds, [click headline to read more]
Bringing a Vision to Life: Serving as a Missouri Green Schools Support VISTA
By Stacey “Parker” Parker, Missouri Green Schools AmeriCorps VISTA
For my 50th birthday last year, I visited a nephew who resides in New York City. Like me, he left the comfort of his home to seek out adventure, and to live his dream. I spent the last 20 years as an assistant professor and working in [click headline to read more]
Clearing the Way at a Historic African American Cemetery
By Josh Valeri, InternMissouri Coalition For The Environment
This summer, Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) will be working with the Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association to help clear invasive bush honeysuckle plants from Greenwood Cemetery in Hillsdale, Missouri.
In recent years, volunteer teams have made much progress in uncovering graves at this historic cemetery through the removal [click headline to read more]
Nature Wisdom: Screen Time vs Nature Time
By Pat Tuholske, Naturalist
Seems many of us today would rather sit inside with screens than explore our native environment. Plugged into laptops, video games, and television, our senses are consumed causing us to be alienated from the natural world. We may watch Nature programs and know a few facts about whales, the rain forest or [click headline to read more]
Many Summer Arts Have Returned
By Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Healthy Planet Arts Editor
Photo Caption: Christina McNealy. “Illuminating Entropy.” 2018. Porcelain, Luster, Candles, 7”x7”x3.
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Summer in St. Louis has arrived! The days are steaming and the lightning bugs are flickering each evening. Better yet, [click headline to read more]
Irresistible Community Builders, LLC presents: Clear the Air and Let the People Breathe Deep
By Tom Braford
The 4th of July is always marked by pomp, circumstance, sound and fury, but this year it will also mark the quiet beginnings of a global “Clear the Air” campaign initiated right here in St. Louis by Irresistible Community Builders, LLC. [click headline to read more]
Gateway to the Great Outdoors Presents Brain Teaser Bash in Tower Grove Park A Puzzle Hunt Through The Park August 7
Gateway to the Great Outdoors (GGO) introduces the first ever “Brain Teaser Bash”! Solve mind-challenging, brain-teasing puzzles as you race through Tower Grove Park! All funds raised will be used for GGO programming and will directly benefit St. Louis Public School (SLPS) students in grades 4-8 throughout the 2021-22 school year. [click headline to read more]