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It’s been talked about in National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, CBC, Time, Outside Online, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, on BBC Radio and NPR (to name a few), but what exactly is forest bathing and why should we be doing it?  Forest bathing, the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, is a simple concept:...

After our last post on the health benefits of eating lacto-fermented foods, you’re probably thinking, “Ok, that sounds great, but how to do I get more of these foods into my diet?” Wonder no more, because in this post, we are...

All of Spread ‘Em Kitchen’s cream cheese-style cashew spreads are lacto-fermented which offer a ton of added health benefits in addition to just being downright tasty. We get asked all the time what this means so we’re here to break it down...

We were recently made aware of the David Suzuki Foundation’s One Nature Challenge. For the past few years, the foundation has been challenging people to spend 30 minutes a day, for 30 days, in nature. The purpose is to kickstart a...

For years, salt has been labelled the enemy. We’ve been told to avoid it. Reduce our intake or be faced with high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, or worse, premature death. It turns out that salt isn’t as bad as...

In a previous blog post on the nutritional value of cashews, we broke down just how packed full of vitamins and minerals these delicious tree nuts are. We talked about how they’re full of heart healthy fats, copper, magnesium, iron, zinc,...