What Healthful Foods are in Season?

Well...these:

Artichokes, Asparagus, Avocado, Cabbage, Carrots, Celery, Chicory, Chives, Citrus Fruits, Collards, Fennel, Green Beans, Greens, Horseradish, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, New Potatoes, Peas, Radishes, Rhubarb, Scallions, Shallots, Spinach, Strawberries, Turnips, Watercress

And if you want to maximize your shopping bucks while minimizing your exposure to pesticides, take a look at THIS LIST. Save money and buy conventional onions, kiwi bananas, pineapple, frozen corn, frozen peas, cabbage, broccoli, and mangoes. Spend extra for organic peaches, nectarines, bell peppers, cherries, raspberries, grapes, potatoes, celery, apples, greens.

hat tip to Cheap Healthy Good blog's sidebar

Dragonfire Factoid: Ditching the Bottle

In reality, bottled water is just water. That fact isn't stopping people from buying a lot of it. Estimates variously place worldwide bottled water sales at between $50 and $100 billion each year, with the market expanding at the startling annual rate of 7 percent.

Bottled water is big business. But in terms of sustainability, bottled water is a dry well. It's costly, wasteful, and distracts from the brass ring of public health: the construction and maintenance of safe municipal water systems.

--from "5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water"