Photo: Open Apiary Day — The Eastern Missouri Beekeeping Association has mentors, monthly meetings and hands on experience to guide you through a year of beekeeping.  Photo Credit:  Michael Kilfoy

Get ready to join us for the Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association’s Annual Beekeeping Workshop at 8:00 am to 5:30 pm on February 8th, 2025, at the Holiday […]

World Space Conservation

Photo: Decurrent False Aster

It’s a new year. The Canadian snow geese are migrating here, and the Monarch butterflies have already left us, and are now arriving in Mexico. People are overcoming the obstacles of 2024, and are planning for the future, baking fresh bread for 2025, and making New Year resolutions.

This New Year […]

After the hustle and bustle of the holidays, January offers us a new beginning, and a perfect time to reset, recharge, and refocus on YOU. Self-care isn’t just a luxury, it’s a necessity for maintaining a healthy mind and body. Vitality Unlimited Spa is here to help you embrace the New Year with renewed energy […]

Well, it’s arrived: 2025

By Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Healthy Planet Arts Editor

Art Piece: “No,” by Alison Breitbach, in Gasp exhibition at Art St. Louis

Writing this ARTful Living column each month is always a treat for me because I get to tell you about all the great ARTsy things that are going on in our area. Beautiful, […]

By Diane K. Wilson 

Step into 2025 with small, achievable changes that can enhance your health and well-being by tuning into your body’s energetic frequency, vibration and resonance. Let’s do this by understanding and improving these energies holistically.

 Stay informed throughout the year! Follow my monthly Healthy Planet articles, blog posts, new classes (in-person, Zoom, email, and social media) […]

Attend the Heartland Hypnosis Conference to Learn How Hypnosis Can Help You

By William Mitchell M.Div., BCH, CI

When people find out that I am both a Protestant Minister and a Hypnotist, they want to know what can be done with Hypnosis. Most people immediately think of entertaining hypnosis stage shows. However, Hypnotism is much more than […]

By Kathie Sutin, Healthy Planet Staff Writer

Photo: The ruins of Kansas City businessman Robert McClure Snyder’s grandiose dream are visible at Ha Ha Tonka State Park.

With the holidays behind us and bleak winter days ahead, what better time to start planning a spring or summer getaway?

Our state has scores of great places to explore but […]

By Dan Zarlenga, Missouri Department of Conservation

Photo caption: A mourning cloak butterfly might just be a welcomed sight in the middle of winter. Photo courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation

Are you looking for something that reminds you of spring on these short, cold winter days? You might not have to wait until leaves green […]

By Dr. Amy K. Davis, MD

COVID 19 and the problems that have arisen in the aftermath of even mild cases are confounding doctors across the country. Symptoms commonly include fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, poor endurance, anxiety and sleep disruption. Many other issues are being seen including joint and muscle pain, recurrent shingles, reactivation […]

By Natalie R. Toney M.F.A., C.H.

Fresh spring rolls are one of my many occasional go-to’s, yet sometimes I crave the crunchy, chewy satisfying goodness of crispy rolls. Whether hosting a Super Bowl party, Superb Owl party, or need a delicious hand-held healthy snack for movie or game night, Crispy Rice Paper Veggie Rolls are sure […]

This popular annual event will once again offer visitors a splendid chance to see bald eagles in their natural habitat.

Few words can describe the thrill of seeing America’s national symbol soaring through the air in the wild, or close enough to touch. And winter is the ideal time to view bald eagles in Missouri, especially […]

By Jean Ponzi

I love this perspective, this world view. It felt akin, from my earliest encounters with this Indigenous way of relating to . . . plants, animals, places, traditions and, of course, others in my own species.

I met All My Relations as a young woman: strong and zippy in my 20s, ready to go […]

Self-Improvement Starts Between Your Ears

By JB Lester

January is the time for making New Year’s Resolutions. Seems like a fool’s errand for many as most people ask too much of themselves. Change can be a good thing. All of us can improve on who we are and how we perceive the world around us. But be […]

By Tom & Carol Braford

In sports, a walk-on is someone who is not Invited or recruited but who prevails through their own insistence, effort and team spirit. A polymath is someone that studies many subjects in order to understand and solve overlapping challenges in comprehensive ways.  

In his recent book, Cheaper Faster Better: How We’ll Win […]

By Simon Yu MD

Prevention and Healing, Inc. now offers a Zoom option to attend Dr. Yu’s Free Monthly Seminars on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm, in addition to in person attendance at our clinic.

In November, I gave a presentation, Parasite, Fungal, Dental Infections and Cancer: Unconventional Diagnostic Therapies.This was a talk […]

By Jasmin Acosta, Healthy Planet Staff Writer

A new year has begun, bringing with it the promise of new opportunities and uncharted adventures. As we stand at the threshold of 2025, we prepare to embark on a transformative journey, one filled with new experiences, connections, challenges, and growth. Now is the time to embrace change, welcome […]

By Linda Wiggen Kraft

January is the time to plan and dream about the annuals of upcoming flower gardens. Our gardens are full of beautiful annuals every year. Most of them are native to warm distant climates. I couldn’t live without zinnias, petunias, sunflowers, and many more. As it turns out sunflowers are native to most […]

By Deborah Rogers Curtis, Green Schools Coordinator for the Missouri Gateway Green Building Council

Missouri Green Schools is excited to announce a new learning series for schools interested in becoming more sustainable. Missouri Green Schools is one of three programs within Show-Me Green Schools; each program is a state-wide recognition program for school sustainability initiatives for […]

Saying Goodbye to My Sweet Fur Baby

By Susan Hunt-Bradford

Photo: Jazzy Hunt-Bradford

I’ve always loved dogs—every single one of them. Big, small, young, old, from every breed and color, I love them all. Dogs are loyal, funny, and full of personality, offering unconditional love to us even when we don’t always deserve it. There’s no downside to […]

By Steve Davies, Healthy Planet Columnist

Photo: Earthbound Recycling in Eureka

As someone who has limited time these days, in large part to three part-time jobs, I’m still hoping to find some time to clean our home through recycling what we can, giving away what we can’t and hopefully throwing away as little as possible.

So as my […]

Food is Medicine: Why it MattersSaturday, Feb. 22, 2025

Carbondale – Women’s Health Naturally Expo & Workshops (WHN) will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at the Carbondale Civic Center, 200 S. Illinois Ave, 9am-4pm.

This is the 11th annual WHN Expo, and it keeps growing every year. Hundreds of people have been touched by this […]

Oh my, 2025. Here we are. Who are we now? What is it like living in such uncertainty?

Because we are. We can’t ignore it or pretend otherwise like we often want to do.

Change is in the air and it is happening quickly. What can we do to keep ourselves sane and grounded?

The answer as I […]

Katie’s Cleaning Service, now in its 10th year, is currently looking for bi-weekly and monthly customers located in Webster Groves, Kirkwood and the South County area.

Katie’s Cleaning Service offers you the best cleaning services you can find. We are dependable, trustworthy and we go the extra mile, always paying attention to details. 

Independently owned and operated, […]