Hilltown Families

Herbal Medicine for Children and Babies Four Fall Classes at Blazing Star Herbal School Hilltown Families and Blazing Star Herbal School (BSHS) in Ashfield, MA have partnered up to offer one...

News From the Blueberry Farm By Benson Place in Heath, MA Here at Benson Place we had an open winter here until two feet of snow arrived in late February! The...

How to Stop Plastics from Turning Your Unborn Boy Into a Girl Of all the charges leveled at plastics: the health risks, the waste creation, the resource-intensive production–this one is definitely...

Kids Spoon-Fed Marketing and Advertising for Least Healthy Breakfast Cereals The least healthy breakfast cereals are those most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children as young as age two, finds...

CDC Confirms Swine Flu in Two School-Aged Massachusetts Residents The Patrick Administration today announced the first confirmed cases of swine influenza in Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...

Mother’s Milk Bank of New England Update Mother’s Milk Bank of New England, located here in Massachusetts, has just published their first e-newsletter to keep supporters of the milk bank up-to-date...

Recess follows lunch almost as predictably as four follows three, because it always has been that way. Principals who have put recess first, though, have noticed children eat more and behave...

The first ever Massachusetts Harvest for Students Week, organized by the Massachusetts Farm to School Project, was a celebration of locally grown food in schools across the state. The week's goals...

National School Lunch Week Website for this mid-October event, which recognizes the importance of school lunches in providing America’s children with access to nutritious meals. Features recipes for five suggested meals...

Step it Up 2007 in Western Mass Step it Up is the largest day of citizen action focusing on global warming in our nation’s history. A truly infectious grassroots movement, organized...