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Why we need wild places

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Contents

FREEDOM COMES AT A HIGH PRICE FOR

UKRAINIAN CITIZENS

18 not in my yard 22 WHY WE NEED WILD

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PLACES

How to Invite Nature Back into Our Lives and Landscapes

27 spring is a state of mind

32 Spirited Strides Power Walk to Better Fitness

34 Buzz-Free Drinking

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The Healthy Rise of Non-Alcoholic Beverages

37 Eating for the Planet Diet for a Climate Crisis

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Storytelling Connects Kids to the Natural World

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on Faith-Based Grassroots Change

44 Pest control

Keeping Dogs Safe from Ticks and Fleas O R G A N I Z AT I O N S A C C E P T I N G D O N AT I O N S T O H E L P T H E U K R A I N I A N H U M A N I TA R I A N C R I S I S :

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DEPARTMENTS 7 news briefs 11 eco tip 12 global briefs 14 health briefs 16 community spotlight 18 earth day feature 27 inspiration 28 business spotlight

32 fit body 34 healing ways 37 conscious

eating 40 healthy kids 42 wise words 44 natural pet 48 calendar 53 resource guide

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ach spring, I eagerly await the change in weather—more time outside, the emergence of pussywillow buds, forsythia blossoms and the dramatic pink flowers on the redbud tree. Daffodils and tulips deliver a bit of sunshine to the sometimes chilly and cloudy days, and the sound of birds in the morning starts my heart singing. It’s the time of year that evokes a sense of hope and renewal, a creative burst and a fresh perspective. Everything is waking up. Everything feels new again.

Our focus this April is on our sacred Earth, and our stories encourage us to consider ways that we can bring health and healing to the natural world. We can each do our part, starting in our own backyards and neighborhoods with native plants, replacing invasive plants and non-native ornamentals with trees, shrubs, grasses and flowers that create habitats and eco-systems for beneficial insects and pollinators, butterflies and birds to thrive.

In our Earth Day feature, Pennsylvania resident, educator, author and native plant expert Doug Tallamy calls us to consider the almost immediate impact that transitioning our backyards and private and public green spaces to native habitats can have on thousands of species of insects and animals. You’ll find his wisdom woven elsewhere in our pages as we highlight the call to “rewild” areas of mown grass to reclaim a more natural and healthy ecosystem.

Moving into spring, it is impossible to talk about healing our world without acknowledging all of those who are hurting and afraid. We are all connected and affected in ways known and unexpected by the violence and devastation happening to our fellow beings in Ukraine and elsewhere. Feelings of helplessness are commonplace.

Yet we all have the ability to use our creative urges and talents to do what we can with what we have. Along with checking on our immigrant neighbors, sending goods and funds through reputable agencies and raising awareness, we can simply be a place of peace within ourselves. In the midst of great turmoil and chaos, Holocaust victim Elly Hillesum had this perspective—“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”

What I have learned is that it is possible to be both happy (and creative, inspired, hopeful and peaceful) and sad (and overwhelmed and concerned, and driven to action).

We can hold all of these emotions and responses simultaneously, and in doing so, feel the sacred fractured wholeness of our humanity.

We trust this month’s issue will support your own and our collective health and happiness, and offer inspiration as we move through the next few months of spring.

In our uncertain world, there is one thing that stays true; seasons change and time moves on, and we can do our part to create better days ahead for all the beings on our beautiful planet.

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Learning from the sudden death of her husband in 2013, Richardson, an ordained Methodist minister and director of The Wellspring Studio, will explain how our losses can invite our creative energy, and how that energy can transform grief into something more. Her books include The Cure for Sorrow, Night Visions, In the Sanctuary of Women and Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life.

Richardson will read from her works; talk about the creative process; reflect upon how both grief and creativity are untidy, unpredictable and tangled; and invite the group to talk about their own creative practices and what part those play in living with grief.

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ndependent, woman-owned Lemon Street Market is now collecting a variety of TerraCycle-approved brands for recycling from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week. A blue bucket is located at the top of the stairs on the mezzanine, and they have already diverted more than 100 pounds of plastic packaging from landfills in just eight months.

Sustainability Manager Olivia Schmids says, “Participating in TerraCycle provides free access for customers to bring in their empty bottles, bags and containers to be recycled. It allows customers to recycle things like chip bags, shampoo bottles and pet food bags.

These types of packaging are not accepted through local municipal recycling, so it provides an extra opportunity to reduce landfill waste!”

Some popular brands that participate include Late July Snacks, Acure Beauty, I and Love and You Pet Food, and Mad Hippie Skincare.

Location: 241 W. Lemon St., Lancaster. For more information, call 717-826-0843, email Olivia.LemonStreet@gmail.com or visit LemonStreetMarket.com. See ad, page 11.

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he University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies biennial Science of Consciousness conference will be held from April 18 through 22 in Tucson, using a hybrid in-person/livestreamed online format.

Keynote speakers include Robin Carhart-Harris; Ralph Metzner, distinguished professor, director of neuroscape psychedelics division, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco; Christof Koch, Ph.D., chief scientist and president, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, and chief scientist of the MindScope program; Abraham (Avi) Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., professor of science at Harvard University; and David Chalmers, professor of philosophy at New York University, author of REALITY+ : From the Matrix to the Metaverse.

Workshops include Progress On Dual-Aspect Thinking, Consciousness and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, Embedded Intelligence, Plants and Consciousness, Neurospirituality and more.

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According to a January 2022 study, 68 percent of people report losing their sense of smell and taste as a symptom of COVID-19. Olfactory neurons, which are responsible for smell and taste, are capable of regeneration, and these four inhalers when used correctly, may help. It requires time, patience and consistency.

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This all-ages, familyfriendly event to educate the community about environmental awareness and living green with sustainable life practices includes ecology workshops, music, speakers, artisan vendors, wellness sessions, tasty food from local vendors and more.

Nonprofit organizations will be on hand to discuss their work, along with local artisans and poets, children’s activities such as live animal demonstrations, a historic tour of City Park and space for creating recycled crafts. Winners of the recycled art contest will be announced at 3 p.m.

Admission is free. Location: Washington and 11th sts., Reading. For more information, visit EarthDayBerks.org. See ad, page 23.

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When to Eat or Toss Food

Americans waste about 40 percent of the food supply every year, which translates to billions of pounds of edible food rotting in landfills and generating dangerous greenhouse gases, along with the dollars leaking out of our wallets. We squander limited resources like water and fuel and needlessly uptick our carbon footprint to produce and transport food that will never be consumed.

One major contributor to this problem is expiration labeling—those

ambiguous “best before” or “sell by” dates on canned goods, prepared foods, egg cartons, milk jugs and meat packages. Consumers are not quite sure what they mean, and as a result, they often throw out ingredients that are perfectly good to eat.

Except for baby formula, the U.S. Department of Agriculture does not require or regulate date labels. Generated by food manufacturers, these cryptic markings convey information about the quality and freshness of products rather than their safety.

Experts advise that food that doesn’t show signs of spoilage after a specified date can still be eaten.

Instead of allowing a package date to dictate the lifecycle of food, we can rely on an item’s look, smell and taste to make that decision.

To become better stewards of the environment, we need to become food conservationists—purchase only what we will consume, plan meals to cook the most perishable items first, scrape the fuzz off sour cream or yogurt, snip off the mold on a block of cheese, freeze items we aren’t going to consume in a timely manner, and eat everything on our plates.

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Best if used by/before date indicates when a product is at peak quality and flavor.

Freeze by date denotes when an item should be frozen to maintain peak quality.

Sell by date tells a retailer how long to display the product for sale.

Actual Food Life Span Milk lasts seven to 10 days after the “sell by” date. If it smells bad, chuck it. Otherwise, it’s safe.

Eggs typically stay fresh in the fridge three to five weeks past the “pack date.”

Meat should be cooked or frozen within two days of bringing it home.

Cheese lasts refrigerated from one to eight weeks. Harder, aged varietals last longer. It’s safe to remove mold and continue enjoying the rest.

Canned goods don’t expire. The “best by” or “use by” dates only relate to peak freshness, flavor and texture.

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Simon Fraser University (SFU), in British Columbia, is engaging with more than 150 Indigenous organizations, universities and other partners to highlight the complex problems of biodiversity loss and its implications for health and well-being in the Tackling Biodiversity Decline Across the Globe research initiative. The project is inclusive of intersectional, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary worldviews and methods for research, with activities in 70 different kinds of ecosystems that are spiritually, culturally and economically important to Indigenous peoples. One of the project’s six principal investigators, SFU assistant professor Maya Gislason, of the Faculty of Health Sciences, says, “Our work in health will focus on healing from the stresses and losses caused by colonial practices and on building healthier relationships to nature. By 2027, when the project completes, healing and well-being will have been important considerations within the development of holistic and actionable solutions intended to improve stewardship and care for people and the planet.”

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A poll by Ipsos conducted for the ocean conservation group Oceana last November found that 82 percent of registered U.S. voters responding would like the National Park Service to stop selling and distributing single-use plastic items. The survey revealed broad appreciation for national parks, with around four in five respondents saying they had been to a park and 83 percent of previous park visitors looking forward to a return visit. Oceana Plastics Campaign Director Christy Leavitt says, “These polling results indicate that Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, want our parks to be unmarred by the pollution caused by single-use plastic.”

The results show broad support for a campaign led by Oceana and more than 300 other environmental organizations which sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking the parks to end the sale and distribution of plastic beverage bottles, bags, foodware and cutlery, and plastic foam products. The proposed Reducing Waste in National Parks Act would see such a policy enacted if passed. “The National Park Service was created to preserve these natural and historic spaces, and in order to truly uphold that purpose, it needs to ban the sale and distribution of single-use plastic items, many of which will end up polluting our environment for centuries to come, despite being used for only a moment,” says Leavitt.

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Industrial Farming is Bad for Birds Researchers at the University of British Columbia found that increased farm sizes resulted in a 15 percent decline in bird diversity. Frederik Noack, assistant professor in the Food and Resource Economics Group, part of their faculty of land and food systems, says, “Wildlife is a good indicator of a healthy agroecosystem, and one thing we wanted to understand was the link between farm size and biodiversity in surrounding areas.” A diverse bird population provides natural pest control and maintenance of an overall healthy ecosystem.

They studied how various farming indicators impacted the diversity of local birds in the farmland bordering the former “Iron Curtain” in Germany. On the Western side of the former political border, farms are five times larger than on the Eastern side, a legacy of Communist farm collectivization. Although farms in East Germany have been privatized for 30 years, sharp differences in farm size remain along the former border, providing an opportunity to study the impact on biodiversity in an ecologically similar environment. Noack says, “Our results show that the negative impact of increased farm size can be mitigated by conserving land cover diversity within the agricultural landscape. In practice, this could mean incentivizing riparian buffer strips, forest patches, hedgerows or agroforestry.”

The Central Park Conservancy, the Yale School of the Environment and the New York City-based Natural Areas Conservancy are launching the Central Park Climate Lab, a new initiative and climate partnership to study the impacts of climate change on urban parks. Their mission is to work with cities across the country to improve urban park mitigation and adaptation to climate change. New York City Mayor Eric Adams states, “The Central Park Climate Lab begins a new era in research and cooperation that will give our park professionals improved tools to combat the climate crisis, and it will be a model for urban parks across the country.”

Because around 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, the program will use mapping tools to develop interventions and protect urban parkland.

With no national standard in place for characterizing and mapping it, the ability to identify broader climate solutions is limited. Research will begin in Central Park and then other New York City greenspaces before expanding to more parks. The data collected will be used to create new, scalable strategies and protocols. Elizabeth W. Smith, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, says, “Severe weather events such as unprecedented rainfall, blizzards, high winds and extreme heat and cold, strain resources and impact Central Park’s tree canopy, plants and wildlife.”

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Himalayan Glacier Retreat Bodes Consequences for Millions Glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains have been growing for millions of years, but researchers at England’s University of Leeds conclude in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports that they are melting at an exceptional rate compared to other glaciers around the world. The Himalayas are home to nine of the world’s 10 highest peaks, including Mt. Everest, and the source of Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze. They contain the third-largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic.

Study co-author Jonathan Carrivick, deputy head of the University of Leeds School of Geography, says, “Our findings clearly show that ice is now being lost from Himalayan glaciers at a rate that is at least 10 times higher than the average rate over past centuries ... and coincides with human-induced climate change.”

These glaciers release meltwater that forms the headwaters of several major rivers, and their disappearance could threaten agriculture, drinking water and energy production in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. But the impact is not only regional, it includes the effect on sea level rise and the damage that could wreak on coastal communities globally. Carrivick says, “We must act urgently to reduce and mitigate the impact of human-made climate change on the glaciers and meltwater-fed rivers.”

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Avoid Formaldehyde to Sidestep Cognitive Problems

A new type of immunotherapy that enables T-cells to fight cancer cells is proving hopeful for people with the deadly skin cancer melanoma, and a new study has found that a high-fiber diet improves the effectiveness of the therapy.

Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in Science that, by analyzing the gut microbiome in hundreds of patients, they found that higher dietary fiber intake was linked with disease nonprogression among patients receiving immune checkpoint blockade therapy compared to patients eating little fiber.

The results were strongest in patients that ate the most dietary fiber, but did not take probiotics, a finding that was replicated with lab animals.

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When used together, the plant alkaloid berberine and the probiotic Bifidobacterium breve work synergistically to significantly improve total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, reports a new study in Gut Microbes from Shanghai Jiao Tung University, in China. Researchers tested 365 diabetes patients at 20 centers throughout the country, giving them either a placebo, one of the two substances or both. Comparing post-meal blood samples after 12 weeks, patients that had taken both the berberine and the probiotic had significantly better cholesterol readings and experienced positive changes in the gut microbiome, as well as better fatty acid metabolism.

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Workers exposed over years to formaldehyde may experience thinking and memory problems later in life, researchers at the University of Montpellier, in France, have concluded. Their study published in the journal Neurology surveyed and tested more than 75,000 people with an average age of 58. Of those, 8 percent were exposed to formaldehyde through their occupations as nurses; caregivers; medical technicians; workers in the textile, chemistry and metal industries; carpenters and cleaners. The risk of developing thinking and memory problems was an average of 17 percent higher in people that were exposed to formaldehyde on the job than those with no such exposure.

People exposed to formaldehyde for 22 years or longer had a 21 percent higher risk of cognitive impairment.

Try Fenugreek to Boost Male Fertility and Health Fenugreek, an herb used in Indian curries and Middle Eastern cuisine, has been shown in studies to increase breast milk production in women, and a 12-week study of 100 men has found that it also boosts male testosterone and fertility. A research team at King George’s Medical University, in Lucknow, India, gave 500 milligrams a day of an extract made from fenugreek seeds to men that ranged in ages from 35 to 60. Sperm motility, or movement, significantly increased at eight and 12 weeks of treatment, while abnormal sperm morphology significantly decreased at 12 weeks. Testosterone levels, cholesterol markers and libido also improved.

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“This research provides further, clear evidence why healthcare professionals need to be vigilant for early signs of gum disease and how it can have wide-reaching implications for a person’s health, reinforcing the importance of taking a holistic approach when treating people,” says Caroline Aylott, head of research delivery at the University of Birmingham Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research. popout/AdobeStock.com

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C Eager Emergency Services has become known throughout Lancaster County for their mold remediations services and are also state-certified to safely remove lead paint in older homes. Pennsylvania law, with enforcement starting in the major cities, is requiring that property owners renting to families with children 6 years old and younger must have the home tested for lead and removed.

In 2011, owner Darlene Eager formed DC Eager Emergency Services, offering mold remediation, water damage cleanup, lead abatement, clean select demolition and specialty cleaning for hoarding situations and pet odors. The business is family-owned and operated; Eager’s two children and her son-in-law are actively involved. The company is hiring.

No experience is necessary, and training and all necessary certifications are provided.

Eager realizes that the need for many of her services is often the result of a misfortune or other circumstance not always under the owner’s or tenant’s control, so the team prioritizes compassionate approaches while consulting with clients and performing services.

“Helping hoarders is where my heart’s been taking me,” Eager says. Often, people with a hoarding disorder are forced by their families, medical professionals or city inspectors to clean their homes and part with an excessive accumulation of items they deem valuable.

“I’ll spend up to two hours talking with a hoarding client to gain their trust before we even enter the home. I want them to know I’m not going to be a person that judges them— they’re often worried about that.”

Eager and her team will work with clients to remove physical items. Often, health hazards such as mold, bacteria, insects and rodents are found behind hoarded items, so they

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will take the necessary steps to properly clean the home so it’s habitable for the client. Homeowners might try to remove mold themselves by spraying it with bleach or other chemicals, but Eager notes that doesn’t completely remediate the problem, and often makes it worse.

“Some companies use a chemical solution to remove mold and then just paint over it,” she explains. “That’s a shortcut.

During the first days of high humidity, the mold bleeds through the paint. There’s no magic potion to remove mold; it has to be physically removed with the proper chemical-free equipment, and the source of moisture that causes mold to grow has to be remediated.”

DC Eager also offers water damage cleanup from leaking or broken pipes, or flooding. Their clean select demolition for indoor projects helps homeowners and commercial properties such as storefronts undergo major remodeling projects. DC Eager will demolish and remove cabinetry and walls while maintaining a clean area.

Eager stays motivated by helping people. She advises, “I meet somebody new every day. I have the ability to help people in need. I’ve never been motivated by money—it doesn’t make me jump any higher or run any faster. I didn’t start DC Eager to become a millionaire. I started it to be happy, and I am.”

DC Eager Emergency Services is located at 6 E. Kendig Rd., in Willow Street. For more information, call 717-989-5763 or visit DCEager.com. See ads, pages 5, 29, 55 and 56.

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ecently, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reported that since 1970, Planet Earth has lost two-thirds of its wildlife. This jaw-dropping news joins a litany of other recent reports about our steady march toward the sixth great extinction event on our home, Planet Earth: from the global decline of insects to the loss of 3 billion North American birds in the last 50 years to the failure of the 150-nation global biodiversity initiative to meet any of its 10-year goals, and finally to the United Nations prediction that 1 million species will go extinct in the next 20 years. You could hardly be blamed for concluding that the demise of our fellow Earthlings is inevitable. But to that I exclaim, “Not in my yard!!”

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charismatic megafauna like lions and tigers and bears (oh my!); camels, rhinos and eagles; wolverines, jaguars and Burmese pythons. Yet wildlife is far more than the few large mammal species that adorned our childhood picture books. The vast majority of Earth’s animal species are insects and other invertebrates, as well as the insectivores, like birds, salamanders, foxes, possums, racoons, rodents, spiders and lizards that eat them, and we humans will not survive long on this planet without these tiny creatures. As the late E.O. Wilson famously explained long ago: Insects are the little things that run the world. Without insect pollinators, 80 percent of all plants, and 90 percent of all flowering plants, would disappear, as would the food webs that support mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and freshwater fishes. What’s more, the Earth would rot, as bacteria and fungi replace insect decomposers that rapidly recycle nutrients. Wilson’s message was clear: There will be no lions, tigers or bears; birds, bats, bunnies or other animals or even humans in a world without insects.

Despite Wilson’s warnings, we have waged war on many insects and ignored the basic needs of the rest for so long that now most insects are in trouble. By one measure, the little things that support our world have declined globally by 45 percent. Insects are not the only important forms of wildlife, but nearly all of the more

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charismatic species depend on them. The simple truth is we cannot reverse wildlife losses without reversing insect declines.

For the past four years I have been photographing the moth species that live on our property. (I haven’t gotten to the butterflies yet.) This year, I reached 1,140 species. That’s right: at least 1,140 (and counting) moth species make their living on our 10-acre patch of southeastern Pennsylvania. Our property is not a preserve that has been protected for a century. Just the opposite. Not long ago, it was part of a small farm whose successive owners had worked the land hard for 300 years. Before we moved in, the vegetation was a tangle of invasive Asian plants that

the owners had mowed and called “hay”.

Very few trees and native shrubs grew here, and most of the resident birds were introduced starlings and house sparrows that could thrive on exhausted farmland.

The caterpillars that sustain 96 percent of North American terrestrial bird species were largely absent.

But today, rather than having lost twothirds of its wildlife as WWF suggests, our 10 acres has increased the number of its resident species by at least that much. And it did not take decades for those increases to occur. The depleted agricultural wasteland of two decades ago has become a hotspot for local wildlife.

The seemingly astounding rebound in species on our property was actually neither astounding nor accidental. It was a predictable response by the natural world to our purposeful restoration of nature’s foundation: native plants. The moths I am counting have returned because the native plants they require are now here, as well. And those plants are thriving on our property because along with the wind and the local blue jays, we have planted them.

We also have removed the tangle of Asian invasive species so that our native plants have enough space, light and water to grow.

The loss of biodiversity is a global crisis, but it is a crisis with a grassroots solution.

Somewhere along the line, we assigned Earth stewardship to just a few specialists: a handful of ecologists and conservation

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biologists. The rest of us have had cultural permission to destroy the natural world whenever and wherever we wanted, using oxymoronic words like “development” and “progress” as rationalizations. The United Nations has designated Biosphere Reserves as places of ecological significance, but that language suggests that there are places on Planet Earth with no ecological significance. Not so. Every square inch of the planet has ecological significance, including our yards.

The ecological approach to landscaping that I have described here is nothing more than basic Earth stewardship, but it is stewardship that empowers us all to become forces in conservation. Replace part of your lawn with ecologically powerful native plants; remove those ornamentals that have proven to be invasive; and plant a pollinator garden. Even if you don’t own land, you can make a difference by volunteering to help your local land conservancy manage its properties or simply by helping someone who does own property.

Either as property owners or volunteers, each of us has the power—and we clearly have the responsibility—to enhance the ecological value of local landscapes. My yard’s message is loud and clear: most wildlife losses are reversable! Humans can coexist with the natural world, at the same time, in the same place. Whether we decide to do so will determine nature’s fate and ultimately, our own. In that sense, we all are nature’s best hope.

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Ecology Begins at Home

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effect of these efforts will have an increased impact on the ecology of the area.

In 2019, Hope United Methodist Church converted two-and-ahalf acres of mowed land into a public native meadow adjoining the Ephrata rail trail. A mowed path now allows the public to wander closer to the large areas of milkweed, grasses and native flowers to witness the miracle of monarchs and other caterpillars turning into butterflies. Camealla Freed, who spearheaded the Hope Meadow project, uses iNaturalist and eBird to document the activity the meadow supports and tags monarchs. The pathways are open to the public, and this summer an evening “rail-trail church” will encourage more learning experiences with the creatures using the meadow.

Around the same time, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) honored their commitment to caring for the environment by hiring local Earthbound Artisan to add a wide diversity of natives to the Welcoming Place. The land quickly burst into color and activity. A nine-acre campus with many staff and visitors, the grounds include a woodland and a bioswale, in addition to the landscaped areas. MCC has begun offering educational activities to the community on the topic, as well as encouraging volunteers to get involved with the native plantings.

This fall, a fouracre project will break ground at Akron Mennonite Church (AMC), just across the street from MCC. Ten years in the making, AMC MCC Welcoming Place finally has permission to convert the large, mowed area into a beautiful nature preserve, creating a memory garden and green burial space, as well as a native meadow, woodland and half-acre raingarden. Their vision is “a place where life and death are both celebrated.” A walking path through the preserve and a sidewalk will be open to the public.

It is easy to imagine insect populations sharing these three locations, even drawing new species that have nearly gone extinct. Not all is left to the imagination; Hope Meadow reports a rare golden bumble bee has appeared in the meadow since it was established.

MCC is noticing the blue-wing scoliid wasp.

Folks from the area are going home and adding a few of these plant varieties to their own backyard, extending these islands of pollinator use.

In a world where most of our landscaping plants are not native, as well as our yard grasses, earthworms, honeybees, most field crops and woodlands, the question remains as to where our basic ecology exists. Doug Tallamy’s vision is beginning to take root.

omegrown National Park, a network of private lands full of native plants maintained for insect and bird populations, was envisioned and promoted by entomologist Doug Tallamy.

People had sensed for years that insect and bird populations were decreasing rapidly, and new data published in 2017 by German scientists confirmed it. Tallamy was convinced that a grassroots effort to add feeding stations of native plants to our yards, churches and parks could reverse the trend.

Oliver Milman spells out what our world might look like without insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run Our World. In a world moving quickly toward technology circumventing nature, the deeper effects of a world without pollinator or decomposer insects cannot be overstated.

It is interesting to note that our honeybees are not native; they are generalists that often do not have the same role as our mostly specialist native bee populations, as well as the many other types of insects pollinating every spring. Our native pawpaw fruits are pollinated by various flies rather than bees at all.

Ants have their own role in pollination. Our true ecology is complex and built on relationships that have evolved and over an incredibly long time.

Tallamy’s message is simple: Our own backyards have a big role to play in the recovery of ecology. It is not too late. People that have heard this message are starting to spring into action, and the tangible results of reunified relationships between plant and insect are hard to ignore. In the Akron/Ephrata area of Pennsylvania, three organizations within a radius of a few miles are Hope Meadows bringing Tallamy’s vision to life. The cumulative

Katrina O. Lefever is the MCC sustainable landscape coordinator. For more information, email KatrinaLefever@mcc.org.

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n a blustery day, Julian Hoffman stood outdoors and watched wild bison grazing in the restored grassland of Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, fewer than 50 miles from downtown Chicago. For him, it was a wild place, affording a glimpse of what North America looked like hundreds of years ago when bison roamed the continent by the millions. “We’re witnessing, in a way that’s both terrible and tragic, just what the profound cost is of continuing to destroy the natural world,” he writes.

Saving wild places is critical for human health and wellbeing, say both scientists and environmentalists. But defining what a wild place is or what the word wilderness means can be difficult, says Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. “If wilderness means a place untouched by hu-

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mans, then none is left,” he says. Even the set-aside wildernesses where no one may have ever stepped have been altered through climate change, acid rain and other human interventions.

Humans are also losing the wilderness that is defined as land set aside solely for plants and creatures other than humans. Prominent naturalist David Attenborough, whose most recent documentary is A Life on Our Planet, says that in 1937, when he was a boy, about 66 percent of the world’s wilderness areas remained. By 2020, it was down to 35 percent.

A wild place can be as spectacular as Yellowstone, a 3,500-square-mile national park in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, filled with hot springs, canyons, wolves, and elk. It can also be as simple as a sky filled with a murmuration, or gathering, of

thousands of swooping starlings, which once caused two teens to stop taking selfies and photograph the natural scene above them instead, as Hoffman witnessed in Great Britain.

Such regions that offer vast tracts of natural beauty and biodiversity are even found in and around major cities like Chicago, says Chicagoland nature blogger Andrew Morkes. “A wild place is also where you don’t see too many people, or any people, and you can explore,” he says.

“You can walk up a hill and wonder what’s around the next bend.”

“A wild place could be a 15-minute drive from home where we can walk among plants in a meadow, or a tree-lined street, or front and back yard, if landscaped with wild creatures in mind,” says Douglas Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts with Your Yard.

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“We need these places to save ourselves,” says Tallamy, who heads the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. “Humans are totally dependent on the production of oxygen and clean water, and that happens with the continued existance of flowering plants, which are dependent on the continued existence of all the pollinators.

When you lose the pollinators, you lose 90 percent of the flowering plants on the Earth. That is not an option if we want to stay alive and healthy.”

Our mental and emotional health is also at stake. According to a recent overview in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, studies have shown that natural settings can lower blood pressure, reduce depression and anxiety, and help the immune system function better.

People have saved wild places over time, of course. “The world’s ancient redwoods are still with us today because people in the early 1900s fought to protect and preserve what they could already see was rapidly diminishing,” Hoffman says. “In the year 2022, we are the beneficiaries of those past actions. Yet less than 5 percent of those old-growth redwood groves are April 2022

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left, and we live in an age where we’re losing an extraordinary range of wild species; for example, 3 billion birds have disappeared from the skies of North America in just the past 50 years. That’s why people need to continue to fight for wild spaces.”

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In researching his book, Hoffman went looking for wild-space struggles. In Glasgow, Scotland, he met people that fought to save an urban meadow from being turned into a luxury home development. “I’d never experienced as much joy in any one place as when I spent time with the community fighting to preserve this tiny meadow,” he recalls. “They campaigned and lobbied politicians, and eventually, the government backed down. And now the whole community is able to enjoy this site where a lot of urban wildlife thrives.”

Once-wild places may also need human help to again become wild refuges. The Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, where Hoffman saw the buffalo, “was once an arsenal for the production of extraordinary quantities of ordnance for a number of wars,” he says.

Creating a Wild Space at Home In their book The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, University of Delaware ecology professor Douglas Tallamy and landscape designer Rick Darke show how to create wild spaces in yards, including what and where to plant and how to manage the land. They advise homeowners to: Stop using pesticides and herbicides.

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“A dead tree in your home landscape, called a snag, often contributes as much to the local ecology as a living tree,” he adds. “For example, woodpeckers build nests in holes or cavities in a snag, and countless insects find shelter and nourishment in the organic material of the snag.”

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“Mourning cloak butterflies overwinter as mature adults. If you say, ‘Hey, let’s just clean up all of that so-called leaf litter,’ you could be cleaning up the habitat of mourning cloaks and killing them,” says Darke, who has served as a horticultural consultant for botanic gardens and other public landscapes in Texas, Maryland, New York, Illinois and Delaware. “That’s not litter. It’s meaningful habitat.

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After hundredsof die-hard volunteers dug out invasive plants, scattered seed and documented wildlife on the 18,000-acre prairie, visitors can now walk among big bluestem and golden alexander, and listen for the sweet song of meadowlarks in the grasslands and chorus frogs in the wetlands.

Conservation volunteers working to save wild places hail from every state. In fact, nearly 300,000 volunteers contribute more than 6.5 million hours of volunteer service a year to the U.S. National Park Service, from leading tours to studying wildlife and hosting campgrounds.

One doesn’t have to be an environmental crusader to save wild places, Hoffman stresses. Exploring local wild places and sharing them with others can help save them, as well. “We can only protect those places that we love,” he says. “And we can only love those places that we know.”

Sadly, roughly 100 million people, including 28 million children, do not have access to a quality park within 10 minutes of home, according to The Trust for Public Land. Projects, such as the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program, which enables urban communities to create outdoor spaces, can help. The U.S. Department of the Interior committed $150 million to the program in 2021.

“Every child in America deserves to have a safe and nearby place to experience the great outdoors,” says Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

A Homegrown National Park Tallamy says one of the most important ways to get people to appreciate and save

wild places is to begin in their own yards.

“We have wilderness designations. We have national forests. We have national parks.

We have 12 percent of the U.S. protected from development,” he says. “Yet, we are in the sixth great extinction. Our parks and our preserves are not enough. My point is that we have got to focus on the areas outside of parks and preserves.” He urges what he calls a “homegrown national park,” in which homeowners, land managers and farmers create a habitat by replacing invasive plants with native species.

Tallamy speaks from experience. He lives on a 10-acre former farm in Oxford, Pennsylvania. “It had been mowed for hay and when we moved in, very little life was here,” he says. “We have been rebuilding the eastern deciduous forest here, getting invasive plants under control and replanting with species that ought to be here.” He’s now counted more than 1,400 different species of moths on his property and documented 60 species of birds nesting within the landscape. “We have foxes who raise their kits in the front yard,” he says.

Lots of acreage is not required, he says.

In Kirkwood, Missouri, homeowners created a wild place on six-tenths of an acre on which they’ve documented 149 species of birds. “If one person does it, it’s not going to work,” he stresses. “The point is to get those acres connected. When everybody adopts this as a general landscape culture, it’s going to help tremendously.

By rewilding your yard, you are filling in spaces between the true wild places and natural areas. The reason our wild spaces are not working in terms of conservation is because they are too small and too isolated.

Even the biggest national parks are too small or too isolated.”

Tallamy says people can create wild spaces in their yards by reducing the amount of lawn they have or even getting rid of it.

They can grow native plants and discontinue the use of pesticides and herbicides, which are disrupting ecological function of wild places the world over, as research shows. Hoffman agrees, “We’ve cultivated a culture of tidiness. It’s actually very easy to welcome wildlife into your home places, often by doing fewer things, by not bring-

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“Such wild yard spaces encourage wonder. Suddenly, the kids are out there and they can be absolutely fascinated by a small glittering beetle. For me, to experience the wild is to go to the shore of a lake, to be present in the mystery, to be among the lake’s reed beds, to see a marsh harrier sleek out of those reeds and to know you’re part of something much larger,” he says. “There’s so much joy and beauty and complexity in being in the presence of other lives besides human.” That in itself is reason enough to save wild places.

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fter 20 years in the landscaping industry, certified arborist Tim Seifarth saw firsthand the negative effects of traditional landscaping on the environment and understands that lawns are capable of more than just looking good.

When treated with creativity and care, lawns can increase beneficial insect and bird populations, lessen the damage caused by fertilizers and enable the earth to absorb more stormwater.

Compelled to make a difference, Seifarth launched Earthbound Artisan, serving Lancaster, Berks, Dauphin, York, Chester and Lebanon counties, in 2014 as a social enterprise committed to prioritizing ecological health in its landscape, stonework and conservation design. The company currently has four employees and plans to hire several more soon and as summer approach. “I wanted to do things differently.

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Caring for the environment takes different forms at Earthbound Artisan. In addition to abstaining from herbicides, pesticides and inorganic chemicals, Seifarth exclusively uses natural stone and native plants and grasses. When possible, salvaged stone is integrated into designs and the use of concrete and mortar is minimized.

To maintain beauty and ecological health, Earthbound Artisan offers organic land management using techniques such as hand weeding, chemical-free fertilizers and gluten-free, crabgrass inhibitors.

“Choosing more aggressive native plants that compete against invasive weeds is another effective organic land management technique,” explains Seifarth.

Newer to the fields of environmental health and landscaping is lawn conversion, a process in which existing, unused turf is converted into woods or meadows. Native plants, trees and perennial flowers are

planted, resulting in new food and cover for pollinating insects, birds and butterflies. By means of a deeper root system, newly planted shrubs and trees absorb more stormwater, resulting in reduced flooding and pollution to nearby streams. Add in less time mowing, watering and weeding, and lawn conversion is a win for land owners and the environment alike.

“Think about an apartment complex where there’s an enormous amount of grass that no one uses. Lawn conversion turns the turf into a meadow and in the process, creates more habitats and food for living organisms. There’s so much potential and so many positives,” enthuses Seifarth.

There is also a lot of turf left to convert. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the state contains more than 2 million acres of turf. By 2025, it hopes to convert 1 percent of the acreages that drains into the Chesapeake Bay—roughly 10,000 acres. “Compared to neighboring states like Maryland and Virginia, Pennsylvania has only converted a small percentage of available turf. There’s a lot more that can be done,” says Seifarth.

He is eager for more opportunities, big and small, to aid in achieving this goal. In addition to several acres at private residences, Earthbound Artisan reengineered approximately two acres of turf at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Mennonite Disaster Services (MDS) in Akron and Lititz, respectively. “The lawn conversion and design work at MCC and MDS is a model of what can be done at other local companies and organizations,” says Seifarth. “I hope Earthbound Artisan will serve as a resource for the surrounding community and other businesses looking to focus more on conservation landscaping.”

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e all know that the more steps we take in a day the better.

The Mayo Clinic advocates walking regularly to keep bad cholesterol in check, maintain a heart-healthy weight and keep blood pressure within a normal range. Power walking—going a mile in under 15 minutes—amps up cardiovascular benefits and takes metabolic conditioning to a new level.

Power walking involves taking longer strides, moving at 4.5 to 5.5 miles per hour and using the arms to propel motion, with or without light weights. “With this more intensive exercise, in comparison to everyday walking, one should note that their breathing is harder and their heart rate is faster with power walking.

Compared to someone who walks at a casual pace, a power walker can expect lower blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar and cholesterol numbers,” says Jason C. Robin, M.D., director of cardio oncology at North Shore University Health System, in Glenview, Illinois.

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ing, he recommends resistance training to increase muscle strength and tone, protect joints from injury, and improve flexibility and balance.

Dave McGovern, walking coach and author of The Complete Guide to Competitive Walking: Racewalking, Power Walking, Nordic Walking and More!, points out, “The impact forces of walking, even high-level racewalking, can be one-third of what runners experience, so it’s a lot easier on the joints. Power walking doesn’t have many rules.” A 30-year veteran of the U.S. National Racewalk Team, McGovern underscores the importance of starting out with a regular, easy walk before progressing to a more vigorous pace.

To avoid and reduce injury, he advocates mindfulness of correct posture and taking shorter, faster steps rather than long, stomping strides. He trains on a variety of surfaces, including everyday roads, tartan (rubber) running tracks, treadmills, dirt trails, grass, and even the occasional concrete sidewalk. “Changing up surfaces uses your muscles in different ways, which can help prevent overuse injuries that crop up from too much training on the same surfaces day in, day out,” he says.

Taking it Up a Notch Racewalking, the competitive and highly technical variety of power walking, takes place at track meets. “After you’ve built a base of miles, you can start sprinkling in some longer and faster workouts, and maybe even think about competition,” says McGovern. “There is a bit more technique involved in competitive racewalking, but once you get the hang of it, it will allow you to go much faster.”

In the end, having a goal can be the

best motivator. “For the athletes I coach, many of them in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond, racewalking and power walking gives a purpose to their workouts,” says McGovern. “One of my athletes has said that she hates to work out, but loves to train. Having the goal of a race over the horizon gives a lot of athletes a reason to get out the door every day.”

Marlaina Donato is an author and composer. Connect at WildflowerLady.com.

Practical Essentials For optimal results on any surface, proper footwear is vital. “We would typically recommend a running shoe for any fitness-based walking,” says Josh Saint Cyr, store manager at New Balance, in Highland Park, Illinois. He notes that the right shoes are designed to help align gait and avoid pronation or supination that prompts the ankle to roll inward or outward with movement. “For a more customized experience, someone with medium or lower arches would want a shoe from the stability running section, and someone with higher arches would want a shoe from the cushioned running section.”

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s a former bartender, Katie Cheney enjoys mixing drinks for friends, and one night recently, in her San Francisco apartment, she tried out something new: an alcohol-free “Noquila Sunrise” made with a distilled, plant-based spirit. “I was actually pleasantly surprised. Even though we were drinking non-alcoholic drinks, we still had just as much fun as usual!” recalls Cheney, who blogs at DrinksSaloon.com.

In New York City, Marcos Martinez has begun drinking virgin piña coladas when out on the town with friends. “The feeling is surprisingly great since I don’t wake up with hangovers. More importantly, I’ve realized that I don’t have to use alcohol as a crutch for my social anxiety,” says Martinez, who owns the black gay lifestyle blog TheMenWhoBrunch.com.

At Chicago’s Kumiko Japanese cocktail bar, owner Julia Momosé offers a menu of what she calls “Spiritfrees,” crafted without alcohol and with ingredients like yarrow, ume—a Japanese fruit—and cardamom. “Folks comment on how they appreciate that it is ‘more than just juice,’ or how surprised they are at their depth, texture and complexity,” she says.

The “sober-curious”—people experimenting with alcohol-free beverages as a way of prioritizing their health and fitness over a short-lived buzz—are changing America’s drinking culture. For the first time in 20 years, fewer Americans are regularly drinking, reports Gallup, and tipplers are drinking measurably less than they did 10 years ago.

No longer stuck with a seltzer while dodging questions from inquisitive imbibers, today the sober-inclined can sip from a vast array of sophisticated

“You have your wits about you, you can drive if necessary, you are less likely to say or do something you might regret and you won’t have a hangover the next morning.” ~Kerry Benson choices—from faux vodka in exotic, crafted drinks to prize-winning sparkling wines to low- and no-alcohol craft beer.

No-booze options can be easily ordered at restaurants, picked up at supermarkets or delivered at home with a few online clicks.

“The best part about having a fun, nonalcoholic beverage in hand is that you get the taste and experience of a cocktail or beer, just without the alcohol and potential negative side effects,” says dietitian Kerry Benson, co-author of Mocktail Party: 75 Plant-Based, Non-Alcoholic Mocktail Recipes for Every Occasion. “You have your wits about you, you can drive if necessary, you are less likely to say or do something you might regret and you won’t have a hangover the next morning.

And alcohol-free drinks are usually less expensive than their alcoholic counterparts.”

Sober-curious strategies range widely.

Some people start tentatively, but increasingly turn to non-alcoholic drinks because they prefer the taste, price and lower calorie count, as well as the diminished risk of heart and liver disease.

Others may go cold turkey for a month or two to break a pandemic-induced habit, alternate alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks at a game or bar to avoid getting tipsy, or drink a Bloody Mary for a weekend brunch and virgin versions during the week to enhance work productivity.

The sales of non-alcoholic beverages shot up 33 percent to $331 million in 2021, reports Nielsen, and online sales of non- and low-alcoholic beverages skyrocketed 315 percent. To compete for the Millennials-heavy market, distillers like Seedlip, Suntory and Lyre’s have created beverages evoking tequila, Campari

and vodka; breweries like Guinness, Budweiser and Carlsberg and small crafters are offering robust-tasting nearand no-alcohol beers; and wineries are using distillation and reverse osmosis to produce fine, low-alcohol Cabernets, Chardonnays and other varieties. Niche products are growing: for example, Los Angeles-based Optimist Botanicals bills its gin-, vodka- and tequila-like botanical blends as being vegan, gluten-free and paleo- and keto-friendly.

On the home front, people are making their own concoctions, often with natural and herbal ingredients, such as pears, tomatoes, cilantro and spices. “Gardengrown produce, windowsill herbs and farmers market finds are the ideal foundation for recipes, from tea sangrias to shaken mocktails,” says New Jersey cooking instructor and recipe developer Vanessa Young, creator of ThirstyRadish. com. As an example, she says, “A slice of brûléed fruit gives a non-alcoholic drink

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a touch of smoky sweetness, plus it is so appealing in the glass.”

Substance abuse counselors caution that beverages that mimic alcohol may not be a good route for recovery from serious alcohol abuse because they can reawaken destructive patterns. And consumers are advised to look carefully at labels. “Alcohol-free” beer contains 0.0 percent alcohol. “Non-alcoholic” beer can contain up to 0.5 percent alcohol, but some have been found to contain up to 2 percent—not desirable if pregnant or in recovery.

Still, says Karolina Rzadkowolska, author of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You, “The popularity of alcohol-free drinks is changing a culture. We are going from a culture that glamorizes drinking at every social situation, with little valid excuse to decline, to a culture that gives people healthier options.”

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Leigh Prezkop, food loss and waste specialist for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), says agriculture accounts for about 70 percent of the world’s fresh water use, while pasture and crop land accounts for about 50 percent of the Earth’s habitable land.

“The environmental impacts begin with the soil,” Prezkop explains. “Soil that’s depleted of nutrients loses its ability to capture carbon and produce nutrient-rich foods.

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“We don’t prescribe people to eat a certain way. We do believe different people and cultures have different dietary needs,” she says. “The global north eats a lot of meat, so we do recommend a plant-forward diet while still incorporating animal proteins, depending on individual dietary needs.”

Merzer argues that we have little control over fossil fuel burning, but we can control our diets. He promotes plant-based eating as a primary solution to climate change. Changing mindsets about “normal” traditions, such as having hamburgers on the Fourth of July or turkey on Thanksgiving, can be difficult, but achievable with the planet at stake, he says.

Sophie Egan, founder of FullTableSolutions.com and author of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good For You, Others, and the Planet, advises to start small by looking at the foods eaten most frequently and identifying ways to make simple swaps. “If you have toast with butter every morning, that could be changed to a nut butter. A sandwich with cold cuts every day for lunch, that can be replaced with a roasted vegetables and hummus sandwich or an avocado sandwich. You can still eat something in a familiar form, but replace ingredients with lower-emissions options,” she says.

If someone is intimidated by switching to an all plant-based diet, a flexitarian option emphasizing foods from the plant kingdom while enjoying meat only occasionally may be more sustainable throughout a person’s lifetime. Her book contains a “protein scorecard” from the World Resources Institute that lists animal and plant sources in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per gram of protein from the worst offenders to the least, with beef (along with goat and lamb) being at the top.

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Prezkop recommends eating a wide variety of foods. “Currently, 75 percent of food produced is from 12 plant species and five animal species, despite that there are thousands of varieties. This means there’s less diversity happening in the field. Diversity helps with regeneration and healthy soils. Producing the same crops over and over means there’s no crop rotation and no diversity happening, leading to degraded soils and deforestation to produce more of the same crop.”

Egan adds that diets that are over-reliant on just a few food sources like corn, wheat, rice and soy threaten the Earth and can lead to food insecurity. “Think of it as risk management with a financial portfolio: We have a diversified portfolio of foods available to feed a growing population, but as the climate warms, extreme weather events threaten yields because lack of fresh water and unhealthy soil threaten the planet and, ultimately, food production.”

Eating food that is as close as to its original state as possible is better for the planet. “The more food is processed, the more resources it took to get it to market,” Prezkop notes.

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Cut Food Waste Prezkop says approximately 40 percent of the food produced globally is lost while still on the farm or further up the supply chain. “When food is wasted, we’re not just throwing away food, but everything it took to produce that food is also wasted—the water, the fertilizer and the land.”

A recent WWF report entitled Driven To Waste cites new data indicating that food waste contributes to approximately 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions—nearly twice the emissions produced annually by all the cars in the U.S. and Europe.

Egan suggests using a shopping list; impulse buys can be forgotten and are prone to spoiling. Keeping food visible by putting fruits and vegetables front and center ensures they won’t be forgotten. Leftovers can be kept from languishing by designating a section of the refrigerator for food to eat first or a day of the week to eat leftovers for dinner. “You can freeze just about anything,” Egan says, from leftover bread to cheese, which can be shredded before frozen. Even scrambled eggs can be poured into a freezer

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Nonprofits throughout the country are creating solutions to divert food waste from the landfills. Keep Austin Fed, a nonprofit comprised of mostly volunteers, helps neighbors experiencing food insecurity by redistributing wholesome, nutritious, surplus food from any food-permitted business. Volunteers pick up leftover food from urban gardens, rural farms, grocery stores and caterers serving area tech firms. All prepared food accepted and redistributed is handled by licensed food handlers. Executive Director Lisa Barden says that Keep Austin Fed redistributed 982,428 pounds of food, or the equivalent of 818,695 meals, in 2021, thus keeping it out of the waste stream.

Similarly missioned organizations exist nationwide. FoodRescue.us, with 40 locations in 20 states, provides assistance and even a dropoff/pickup app for people starting local groups. Since its founding in 2011, it has provided 85 million meals and kept 109 million pounds of excess food out of landfills. Its website offers a potent plea: “Fight Hunger. Help the Planet. Be the Rescue.”

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Storytelling Connects Kids to the Natural World

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hildren are natural storytellers with imaginations that shape their play and learning. In outdoor settings, everything from puddles to pine cones can engage children and draw them closer to the natural world, opening up a lifelong appreciation of natural environments. Connecting with nature also improves creativity, academic performance and attentiveness, while reducing stress and aggressive behavior, a body of research shows.

Organizations, like the Wilderness Awareness School, a Duvall, Washington-based nonprofit, work to help children and adults cultivate healthy relationships with nature, community and self. “We find that children who feel at home in the outdoors are often more resourceful, creative and allow for curiosity to naturally unfold,” says Leah Carlson, director of marketing and communications at Wilderness Awareness School. “Allowing them to play freely and explore in nature is a wonderful way to build resilience and resourcefulness. When children can be intrigued through a story, it also allows them to understand their own outdoor experiences. They become more adept at finding new solutions to problems using the tools they have access to and creative thinking.”

Weaving storytelling into their programs helps children understand their outdoor experiences. “Regular time spent with experienced nature mentors, playing games, exploring unique plants and animals and getting excited about the possibilities of nature 40

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is how a connection begins. When children are outside, the characters of these stories are the plants, animals, rocks and landforms around them. The suburban tree that was always an obstacle on the sidewalk can be seen through new eyes as a dragon, monkey bars or a red alder,” Carlson explains.

Megan Zeni, a public school teacher in Steveston, British Columbia, says there is a global body of research that shows every measure of wellness is improved through time spent outside. She teaches solely outdoors, ensuring that her students have exposure to nature regardless of which neighborhood they live in. “In our modern world, higher-income families generally have better access to green spaces.

Incorporating outdoor activities into the school day gives children equitable exposure to nature and outdoor learning,” she explains.

Zeni uses both non-fiction and fiction storytelling approaches to teaching. “To learn about water cycles, I’ll have kids jump in puddles, observe where the water goes and track where it is in the community. They’ll then relay a fact-based story based on their observations and experiences. For a lesson on squirrels, I’ll ask the students to imagine where their habitat is, who their family is and what they eat.

We use loose parts, which are open-ended items, such as pine cones and sticks, to creatively illustrate the story.

“By using storytelling as a measure of knowledge, it is more equitable for students who don’t perform as well using traditional test and essay methods,” she says. Listening to a child’s story can also reveal misconceptions that can be clarified through further exploration and instruction.

Storytelling can take on many forms and be enhanced with the use of props. As the artistic director of Rootstock Puppet Co., based in Chicago, Mark Blashford performs puppet theater rooted in stories that promote mutual kindness and ecological awareness. “Puppets are remarkable storytelling agents because, not only can they play characters and support nar-

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“We find that children who feel at home in the outdoors are often more resourceful, creative and allow for curiosity to naturally unfold.” ~Leah Carlson rative through movement, they can also tell a story from the very material they inhabit,” he says. “Puppets invite kids to exercise empathy by compelling them to accept and invest in the thoughts, feelings and life of another entity.”

By making puppets out of wood and using them to weave environmental awareness into his shows, Blashford helps to put the natural world in perspective. “My show TIMBER! is about an entire forest and a single tree which is home to a family of spotted owls. I want children to see the role of both the forest and the tree in the lives of an owl family. When they fall in love with little wooden puppet owls, they are able to convert the giant concept of deforestation into a manageable scale,” he says.

He encourages parents to regularly engage their children with their natural habitat. “Go to your local forest or park, find a tree, name it and check on it as often as you can. Prompt children to ask questions about who they think lives in that tree, why the branches stretch out how they do and what happens at night.

As children learn to see the outdoor world as part of their own characters and setting, the stories will develop naturally,” he advises.

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ith degrees in natural resource management, environmental science, religion and business administration, Mennonite Reverend Brian Sauder is an adjunct professor at two Illinois seminary schools, as well as president and executive director of Faith in Place, a Midwest nonprofit headquartered in Chicago that helps diverse faithbased groups become community leaders in a shared quest for environmental, social and racial justice.

How are places of faith uniquely positioned to address environmental and racial justice?

If you look at the history of the U.S. environmental justice movement, from Warren County, North Carolina, where black church women laid their bodies on the road to stop toxic waste dump trucks in their community, to Dr. Benjamin Chavis’ coining of the phrase “environmental racism” through the United Church of Christ, there’s a legacy of people of faith and diverse spiritualities calling out environmental racism and organizing the community to take action. We view ourselves in that historical lineage, with a mission to provide the tools, resources and programming for our faith partners to continue to advance these valuable pursuits.

How does Faith in Place work?

It’s very grassroots. We believe in a Green Team model, which is a core group of people within a faith community, anywhere from three to 30 individuals, depending on the size of the community.

Through coaching, we help teams evaluate the community’s needs and assets, set goals for the year, and create a strategic plan to address needs through programming, advocacy and a network of nonprofit partners.

Why are Green Teams effective in bringing about change?

The messenger matters. When you work with a community, it’s the people in that community that are going to understand the culture, the theology, the context, the history, the politics of the local body; so they understand how to meet people where they’re at and how to talk about these issues in a way that’s effective and attainable.

We partnered with a Green Team that wanted to address the need of hunger in their community by turning four acres of land that they had into a congregation-supported agriculture project (CSA), where people paid upfront to get a weekly bushel of produce grown on the land, while the church tithed 10 percent of it to local food pantries. Over several years, we helped them write a business 42

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Can you describe a noteworthy Faith in Place project?

“One way to describe justice is love in action.” plan, approach the committee structure of the church, hire a farmer, set up a legal structure and launch Sola Gratia Farm, which today is employing a bunch of people and stocking local food pantries with fresh tomatoes, kale, fruits and vegetables grown right there in the community. Once Faith in Place shared this story, other faith partners wanted to replicate it. We now support five different CSAs across Illinois.

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Absolutely. Whether it’s an institution of religion or a spiritual tradition, people are bringing the wisdom of the ages to bear on understanding the moment we’re in. Everything is connected, and the ecological crisis is a spiritual crisis. The healing of me and the healing of you and the healing of Earth are bound together, and this mutuality is core to all our different spiritualities and traditions. At our annual Green Team summit, people from different regions, backgrounds and religions come together, all united by the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land where our food is grown and a deep sense of calling and purpose. It’s hope-inspiring in a world that is so divided.

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A Green Team might say, “We have an issue with lead pipes in our communities,” or, “We have an issue with high school-age youth needing employment.” Our programs, which are shaped by the needs of our Green Teams and are constantly being reevaluated and reshaped, cover sustainable food and land use, climate change and energy, environmental advocacy, youth empowerment, and water and flooding prevention. We also advocate to policymakers. Last year in Illinois, Green Teams helped pass the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act by convincing legislators to not only reduce carbon emissions, but also prioritize employment opportunities in the new green economy for high-unemployment neighborhoods.

What is your philosophy concerning the intersection between faith and environmental and social justice?

We’ve got to be committed to the transformation that we seek.

Our spirituality calls us to remember how connected we are. One way to describe justice is love in action—a love that begins with ourselves—and as we love ourselves more deeply, it spurs outward action that seeks to dismantle injustice.

Sandra Yeyati, J.D., is a professional writer and editor. Reach her at SandraYeyati@gmail.com.

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leas and ticks are different types of pests; so, when considering how best to protect a dog, it is important to make a distinction—fleas are an annoyance, but ticks can be life-threatening. Many veterinarians recommend specific chemicals as a preventive solution, but this is often just a knee-jerk approach that uses chemicals to control nature. Instead, consider more natural alternatives that are both effective and non-toxic.

Fleas 101 Fleas are related to ants and beetles, feed on blood, and their bites can lead to irritation and skin allergies. They aren’t typically attracted to healthy pets; so, one of the best defenses against flea infestations is to feed a dog a nutritionally balanced, species-appropriate, fresh-food diet that will help keep their immune system functioning optimally.

It is also important to remove the environmental factors that can negatively impact immunity, including: n Poor water quality. Make sure to provide fluoride- and chlorine-free drinking water. n Too many vaccines. Insist that the veterinarian runs titer tests instead of giving un-

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n Toxic household chemicals, including cleaning products and dog beds treated with

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n Pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers used in the yard. n Toxic levels of electromagnetic fields from electrical devices in the home.

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The Trouble with Ticks Ticks are a type of arachnid related to mites, spiders and scorpions. Because ticks feed on many different animals (including humans, dogs, cats, squirrels, mice, opossums and deer), they are quite good at acquiring and transmitting diseases, some of which can be life-threatening.

Unfortunately, a single tick bite can expose a dog to multiple pathogens, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and babesiosis. Luckily, most dogs mount an effective immune response.

Up to 90 percent of dogs may have been exposed to tick-borne pathogens, but most are able to fight off infection on their own.

The only way to know if a dog has effectively eliminated harmful bacteria is to follow up the typical blood test with a second test called a quantitative C6 that differentiates exposure from infection.

Large numbers of dogs each year are unnecessarily treated with extensive antibiotic therapy because their veterinarians panic after seeing a positive exposure and fail to check for infection.

To catch tick-borne infections before they take hold, ask the veterinarian to replace the standard annual heartworm test with the SNAP 4Dx Plus (from Idexx Labs) or the Accuplex4 tests (Antech Diagnostics), which screen for heartworm, Lyme disease and four other vector-borne diseases. Completing one of these simple blood tests every six to 12 months is the best way to protect a dog. In tick-infested areas, if a dog tests positive on either of those two tests, it should also be screened for babesia exposure with a polymerase chain reaction test.

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them a supplement such as milk thistle, a detox agent that helps to regenerate liver cells, or chlorella, a super green food. Work with an integrative veterinarian to determine the dosage; one dose daily for seven days following any chemical flea-, tick- or heartworm-preventive application is recommended.

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To make it, mix eight ounces of pure water with four ounces of organic, unfiltered, apple cider vinegar, and add 10 drops of neem oil.

Neem oil is not an essential oil; it is an expelled or pressed oil. It is effective because fleas and ticks are repelled by it, and it doesn’t bother pets sensitive to odors.

Catnip oil can also be used since it has been proven to be as effective as diethyltoluamide (DEET), the mosquito and tick spray humans use that has a number of toxic side effects. To add extra punch to the mixture, add five drops of lemon, lemongrass, eucalyptus or geranium essential oil.

Store the homemade pest deterrent in the fridge, and before a dog goes outside, mist them with it, being careful to avoid the eyes. The active ingredients, especially the essential oils, dissipate in about four hours, so the solution may have to be reapplied several times throughout the day.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 1 Contemplative Prayer/Meditation – 6:45-7:15am.

(Fridays ongoing). In person and via Zoom. Free.

717-397-4858. 119 N Duke St, Lancaster. For the Zoom link, visit SaintJamesLancaster.org.

Mindful Yoga – 9-10am. (Fridays ongoing). Onsite and via Zoom. Slow down your breath, your body and your mind. $15, discounts available. Contact Saint James Episcopal for link. 717-397-4858. 119 N Duke St, Lancaster. SaintJamesLancaster.org.

Cooking Class: Spring Baking (Gluten Free) – 6-8pm. Ages 18 & up. Learn how to work well with gluten free flours and make classic desserts that could fool anyone into thinking they aren’t gluten free. Hands-on. BYOB. Registration is required. $75. Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz. 717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

Community Donation Yoga – 9-10am. (Sundays ongoing). Yoga is for everybody regardless of financial state. This yoga class mixes Vinyasa with Alignment; well suited for any level of practice. West End Yoga Studio, 221 W Walnut St, Lancaster. WestEndYogaStudio.com.

Yin Yoga – 9am-10:30am. (Sundays ongoing). Kula Kamala Ashram, 17 Basket Rd, Alsace Twp, Reading.

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Wisdom Circle – 10:30-11:30am. (Sundays ongoing). Kula Kamala Ashram, 17 Basket Rd, Alsace Twp, Reading. 484-509-5073.

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Sunday Evening Meditation – 7-7:30pm. (Sundays ongoing). Via Zoom. All welcome for a meditation which incorporates mindfulness, reiki and loving

MONDAY, APRIL 4 Chair Yoga – 10:30-11:30am. (Mondays ongoing).

In-studio and virtual. Traditional poses are converted to using a chair as our foundation or prop.

The addition of a long scarf/yoga belt, books/yoga block, and beach towel/yoga blanket expand the options. $45 New Student Unlimited, other class pass options available. Register online. West End Yoga Studio, 221 W Walnut St, Lancaster. 717406-9681. WestEndYogaStudio.com.

Voice Embodiment Class – 1-2pm. 6 wks, thru 5/9.

“Sing Your Heart Out.” Connect through singing, sounding/intoning, movement, joy and reflection.

Taught by Jen Lobo. Each class concludes with a restorative sound meditation with singing bowls. Space limited; registration required. $150/6 wks. Black Cat Yoga Studio, 796 Lititz Pk, Lititz. ResonateYou.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Contemplative Prayer/Meditation – 8-8:30am.

(Tuesdays ongoing). In person and via Zoom.

Free. Saint James Episcopal, 119 N Duke St, Lancaster. 717-397-4858. For the Zoom link, visit SaintJamesLancaster.org.

Hatha Yoga – 9-10am. (Tuesdays ongoing). Instudio and virtual. Hatha yoga can improve mood, decrease anxiety, tone muscles, and improve posture and balance. $45 New Student Unlimited, other class pass options available. Register online. West End Yoga Studio, 221 W Walnut St, Lancaster.

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Coping with the Loss of a Parent or Sibling – 6:30-8pm. Via Zoom. Are you grieving the death of someone you care about? Would you like to talk with others who have experienced a loss? This meeting includes a presentation and an informal time to talk with others. Free. Pathways Center for Grief & Loss. 717-391-2413 or 800-924-7610.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 Mindful Yoga – 9-10am. (Wednesdays ongoing).

Onsite and via Zoom. Slow down your breath, your body, and your mind. $15, discounts available. Contact Saint James Episcopal for link. 717-397-4858. 119 N Duke St, Lancaster.

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Coping with the Loss of a Spouse or Companion – 6:30-8pm. Other dates and times available. Via Zoom. Are you grieving the death of someone you care about? Would you like to talk with others who have experienced a loss? This meeting includes a presentation and an informal time to talk with others.

Free. Pathways Center for Grief & Loss. 717-3912413 or 800-924-7610. HospiceCommunity.org.

Donation-Based Meditation – 7-8pm. (Wednesdays ongoing). Guided meditation with Monica Mullen.

Walk-ins welcome. West End Yoga Studio, 221 W Walnut St, Lancaster. WestEndYogaStudio.com.

Ultimate Health Workshop – 7pm. (Wednesdays ongoing). Learn how you can achieve optimal health. Topics vary by week. Free. Call to reserve your spot. Heath Wellness Center, 14 W. Main St, Landisville. 717-530-5555. HeathChiropractic.com.

Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation – 7-8:15pm. 6 wks thru 5/18. Live Online. Learning and practicing mindfulness changes how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, which helps us to cultivate compassion, inclining us to treat ourselves and others with greater kindness. $120. Helene Williams Reiki, 313 W Liberty St, Lancaster. 717269-6084. HeleneWilliamsReiki.com.

Group Beginner Voice Class – 7:30-8:45pm.

Online. 6 wks thru 5/11. Learn the fundamentals of your singing voice and your body as your instrument: breathwork, registration, releasing and anatomy. Registration required. Sliding scale rates: $160-$322. ResonateYou.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Contemplative Prayer/Meditation – 8-8:30am.

(Thursdays ongoing). In person and via Zoom.

Free. Saint James Episcopal, 119 N Duke St, Lancaster. 717-397-4858. For the Zoom link, visit SaintJamesLancaster.org.

Cooking Class: Plant Based International Dinner – 6-8pm. Ages 18 & up. Learn to make these essential international recipes that are bursting with flavor. Hands-on. BYOB. Registration is required. $70. Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz. 717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

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Food & drink available for purchase. Free lectures and demos all weekend. First 150 guests each day receive free goodie bag. $10/ weekend, kids 12 and under free. Hamburg Field House, Pine St, Hamburg. 610-401-1342.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Alpaca Shearing Day – 8am-2pm. A fun event for the whole family. Tour the farm and visit the farm store, watch the excitement as the resident sheep and alpacas get shorn and ready for summer.

Children’s activities. Food truck and local vendors present for the day. Free. Bent Limb Farm, 592 Stonehill Rd, Shoemakersville. 484-797-2263.

BentLimbFarm.com.

Soundwise ReikiVoice – 9:30am-6pm. Lana Ryder of Soundwise Health teaches how to use voice as a sound healing instrument through speaking, toning, chanting, improvisational voice, light language, frame drum voice, the kotodama, creating vocal portals, ceremonial voice rituals for earth communion, palliative care and house clearings. $250. Must register by 4/1 to allow time to complete prerequisites. Reiki Learning Place, Harrisburg.

ReikiByRickie.com.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation – 7-8:15pm. Wednesdays thru 5/18. Online. Learning and practicing mindfulness changes the way we relate to ourselves, others and the world, helping us to cultivate compassion. $120. Helene Williams Reiki, 313 W Liberty St, Lancaster. 717-269-6084.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 19 GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing) – 6:30-8pm. A source of help, compassion and understanding for individuals who have had a loved one die as a result of substance abuse or addiction.

Free. Registration required: MParadise810@comcast. net or 717-951-2720. Pathways Center for Grief & Loss, 4075 Old Harrisburg Pike, Mount Joy. HospiceCommunity.org.

Parent/Grandparent & Child Cooking Class: French Macarons – 6-8pm. Age 5 & up. Pastry Chef Danielle Belton takes you through the techniques to make these classic sandwich cookies and leave with a box of the beautiful treats to share with your loved ones. Hands-on. Registration is required. $75. Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz. 717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Women Working for the Earth Summit – 10am9pm. Online. This is a time of unprecedented challenges for our planet. This event brings together some of the most prominent voices guiding us to reconnect with ourselves, each other and our mother Earth. Free Registration required. NatureEvolutionaries.com.

Berks Nature Spring Celebration – 10am-3pm.

Spring has finally sprung. Join us for a full day of hikes and fun. Free. No registration required.

Berks Nature; The Nature Place. 575 St Bernardine St, Reading, PA. 610-372-4992. BerksNature.org.

MONDAY, APRIL 11 Parent/Grandparent and Kids Cooking Class: Dinner – 5:30-7:30pm. Ages 5 and up. Enjoy the fun of making family dinner without having to clean up the mess. Kids learn essential cooking skills while spending quality time with you. Hands-on.

Registration is required. $70/person. Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz. 717-435-8890.

ZestChef.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 Gardening with Native Plants – 6-8pm. Four parts, Tuesdays 4/12, 4/26. Get started growing native plants for our climate and local wildlife. Learn the basics in site preparation and garden planning from local experts. $70/4 workshops. Online preregistration required. The Nature Place, 575 St. Bernardine St, Reading. BerksNature.org.

Newly Bereaved Program – 6:30-8pm. If your loss was recent, this 3-wk series provides an overview of common grief responses and will help you to begin to identify coping tools. Space limited, registration required. For info/to register: 717-391-2413 or 800-924-7610 by 4/5 to discuss with a Bereavement Counselor. Pathways Center for Grief and Loss.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 22 earth day Compline Contemplative Prayer Service – 9-9:30pm. Via Zoom. Service of scripture and music with a reading by Jan Richardson, artist, writer and ordained minister. Free. For registration and info: SaintJamesLancaster.org/Jan. Women Working for the Earth Summit – See April 21 for listing.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 Make and Create Weekend Retreat – 9am-4:30 pm Sat and 9:30am-3:30pm Sun. Mornings on PCA&D’s campus in studio experiences such as figure drawing and printmaking with afternoon workshops at the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen for jewelry making and glassblowing. $315.

Register online by April 16 at PCAD.edu. PCAD, 204 N Prince St, Lancaster. 717-396-7833.

Cooking Class: Tea and Scones – 10am-12pm.

Age 18 & up. Learn how to make tender scones and all the accompaniments for a proper tea party.

Hands-on. BYOB. Registration is required. $70.

Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz.

717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

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Earth Day Celebration and Organic Plant Sale – 10am-4pm. Join local craft vendors, food trucks, educational kid’s activities, live music, yoga and more while checking out our Cold Crop Plant Sale. Free. Rodale Institute, 611 Siegfriedale Rd, Kutztown, PA. 610-683-1400. RodaleInstitute.org.

Transforming Sorrow Workshop – 10am-2:30pm. via Zoom. The Urban Well hosts Jan Richardson leading a virtual workshop focusing on grief, renewal and the creative life. $85. Sessions will be recorded and available after the workshop. For registration and info: SaintJamesLancaster.org/Jan. Women Working for the Earth Summit – See April 21 for listing.

Berks County Earth Day Celebration – 11am-5pm.

Family-friendly event includes ecology workshops, speakers, artisan vendors, Penn Street Farmers Market, wellness sessions, children’s activities and more. Bring gently used clothing, housewares, batteries, electronic equipment, light bulbs, paper, cardboard and plastic grocery bags to recyle. Free.

Riverfront Park, Reading. EarthDayBerks.org.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 Women Working for the Earth Summit – See April 21 for listing.

Intoning on the Chakras – 1:30-2:30pm. Live or online. Learn how to use the 7-chakra system through making sounds in your own body to help calm, ground, and become more in flow. Offered

by Resonate You and The Yoga Place, Bergstrasse Lutheran Church, 9 Hahnstown Rd, Ephrata. $25.

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Women’s Intro Writing Class – 6:30-8:30pm. 5 wks, Mondays thru 5/23. Via Zoom. “Writing Without Fear.”

A warm and welcoming community of trust, kindness and understanding. Learn to write freely without perfection and self-doubt. Beginner’s welcome, sharing optional. Write From the Heart. Registration required.

717-393-4713. WriteFromTheHeart.us.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 Business Practices for Creatives – 6-8pm.

Online. Tuesdays, 10 wks thru 6/28. For creative professionals understand the necessary steps in starting and running their own business. Tailored to designers, writers, artists, craftspeople, and other similar professionals. $485. 1 Credit. Register online by April 21 at PCAD.edu. PCAD, 204 N Prince St, Lancaster. 717-396-7833.

Intermediate Character Design for Animation – 6-9pm. Tuesdays, 10 wks thru 6/28. Introduction to the production process of creating characters designed for animation, illustration, comics and video games. Access to a drawing tablet required. 1 Credit. $385. Register online by April 19 at PCAD.edu.

PCAD, 204 N Prince St, Lancaster. 717-396-7833.

Man to Man: Grief’s Toolbox – 6:30-8pm. Via Zoom. Monthly men’s group to learn about tools to add to your “Grief Toolbox” to help you rebuild your life after loss. Call the Pathways Center for Grief and Loss at 717 391-2413 or 800-924-7610 to discuss with a bereavement counsellor. HospiceCommunity.org.

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Food for Thought: The Future of Food & Agriculture – 5-8:30pm. Community forum to inform and inspire on the future of food and

agriculture. Evening includes reception and program.

Registration required at MillersvilleUni.vbotickets. com. $40. Millersville University Ware Center, 42 N Prince St, Lancaster. HourglassLancaster.org.

classifieds Fee for classifieds is $1 per word per month. To place listing, email content to Advertising@NALancaster.com.

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Demystifying Oil Painting: Safety, Technique & History – 6-9pm. $35. Learn how to store materials, alla prima vs. indirect painting, history of oil painting and what medium works for what and so much more.

Register online by April 20 at PCAD.edu. PCAD, 204 N Prince St, Lancaster. 717-396-7833.

Coping with the Loss of a Child of Any Age – 6:308pm. Via Zoom. Are you grieving the death of someone you care about? Would you like to talk with others who have experienced a loss? Includes a presentation and an informal time to talk with others. Free. To register: Pathways Center for Grief & Loss. 717 391-2413 or 800-924-7610. HospiceCommunity.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 HTML & CSS – 6-8pm. Online. Thursdays, 10 wks thru 6/30. Learn basic HTML, used to generate websites, landing pages, emails and more. Classes also include Cascading Style Sheets and file management. Photo manipulation and file management experience required. 1 Credit. $485.

Register online by April 21 at PCAD.edu. PCAD, 204 N Prince St, Lancaster. 717-396-7833.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Two-Day Child Abuse Prevention Seminar – 1-8:30pm. Sat 4/30, 9am-4pm. Five Keynotes and 16 workshop choices from pastors, professionals and survivors will be featured. Opportunities to network, and safe spaces for survivors, are offered throughout the seminar. $99 incl dinner (Fri), lunch (Sat) and snacks. Faith Mennonite High School, 5085 Woodland Dr, Kinzers. For schedule and registration: https://abetterway.org/events/ lancaster-2022/. For info: 717-560-9989 or email info@SafeCommunitiespa.org.

Story Hike and S’mores – 7-9pm. Gather round for a story and roasting s’mores before taking an event stroll through Angelica Creek Park. Free.

Online pre-registration required. The Nature Place, 575 St. Bernardine St, Reading. BerksNature.org.

savethedate SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Lancaster Native Plant and Wildlife Festival - 8am-1pm. 11th annual festival includes native plant sales, education on native plants and best conservation practices in the community, including rain gardens, riparian buffers, and more, a tour of Overlook Park Habitat Improvement and presentations by Raven's Ridge Wildlife Rehabilitator. Food available for purchase. Free to attend. Overlook Park, 595 Granite Run Dr, Lancaster. Facebook.com/LancPlantFest.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Kids Cooking Class: Brunch for Mom – 10am12pm. Ages 7-12. Kids will learn how to make this fun and delicious brunch menu for you to eat together. Hands-on. Registration is required. $75.

Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz.

717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

Workshop: Backyard Chickens – 10am-12pm.

Learn how to pick the perfect breed, coop and housing options, daily care and cleaning, health,

Help wanted

sourcing and more. $60. Rodale Institute, 611 Siegfriedale Rd, Kutztown, PA. 610-683-1400.

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plan ahead SATURDAY, MAY 7 Remembering Our Mothers – 9:30-11am.

Interactive online event. Commemorative event providing women whose mothers have died the opportunity to remember, honor and celebrate their mothers’ lives. Registration is required by May 4.

Call the Pathways Center for Grief and Loss at 717 391-2413 or 800-924-7610 to discuss with a bereavement counsellor who will provide the log-in information. HospiceCommunity.org.

Kids Cooking Class: Brunch for Mom – 10am12pm. Age 7-12. Kids will learn how to make this fun and delicious brunch menu for you to eat together. Hands-on. Registration is required. $75.

Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz.

717-435-8890. ZestChef.com.

Lavender Plant Sale – 10am-3pm. Plant sale featuring lavender plants propagated and grown at Hope Hill Lavender Farm. Full line of lavender products also available. Hope Hill Lavender Farm, 2375 Panther Valley Rd, Pottsville. 570-617-0851.

HopeHillLavenderFarm.com.

SUNDAY, MAY 8 Lavender Plant Sale – See May 7 for listing.

FRIDAY, MAY 13 Parent/Grandparent and Kids Cooking Class: Dinner – 5:30-7:30pm. Ages 5 and up. Enjoy the fun of making family dinner without having to clean up the mess. Kids learn essential cooking skills while spending quality time with you. Hands-on.

Registration is required. $70/person. Zest Cooking School, 1180 Erbs Quarry Rd, Lititz. 717-435-8890.

ZestChef.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 21 Lancaster County Women’s Expo – 9am-2pm.

Unwind and have fun while shopping, enjoying free spa treatments, watching a fashion show and demonstrations. Registration required. Free.

Wyndham Resort, 2300 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster. AGreatWaytoSpendMyDay.com.

Reiki II Okuden – 9am-4pm Saturday and Sunday. Two-day class introduces three of the reiki symbols and mantras and the concept of distance healing. $225. Helene Williams Reiki, 313 W Liberty St, Lancaster. 717-269-6084.

HeleneWilliamsReiki.com.

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ACUPUNCTURE LANCASTER ACUPUNCTURE

Beverly Fornoff Eden Natural Care Center 600F Eden Rd • Lancaster 717-381-7334 • LancasterAcupuncture.com Discover your body’s natural ability to heal with the supports of acupuncture and herbal medicine.

Acupuncture is a way to relieve acute or chronic pain, stress, allergies, colds, digestive problems, and insomnia and support your overall well-being. See ad, page 17.

BODYWORK DéPROV INJURY SOLUTIONS

DJ Campos-Bard, LMT, CMMP 439 N Duke St, 2nd Fl, Ste 203 • Lancaster 717-669-1030 DeProvMassageTherapy.com If you are seeking relief from pain, chronic conditions, are suffering with anxiety and stress, or choosing massage for self-care, DJ Campos-Bard offers the Peak Method along with a variety of natural healing therapies to empower you to live a healthy and vibrant, pain-free life.

SUPERNATURAL WELLBEING, LLC Grace Henderson, LMT 342 N Queen St, Studio N • Lancaster 717-803-6207 SupernaturalWellbeingLLC@gmail.com

Offering a wide range of bodywork and holistic wellness services to support your well-being, harmony and balance of mind/body/spirit, guiding you to the realization that you have always been perfect while empowering you to make necessary changes to create the fabulous life you want to live. LGBQTIA+ friendly.

CBD/HEMP PRODUCTS HEMPFIELD BOTANICALS 100 W Walnut St • Lancaster 717-874-8480 HempfieldBotanicals.com

Hempfield Botanicals embraces that wellness is the foundation for living a full and vibrant life. We create THC-free and fullspectrum CBD products to help people find relief from pain and inflammation, sleep problems, anxiety, headaches, lack of energy, and more. Certified B Corporation®, vegan, certified cruelty-free, sustainable, and third-party tested. See ad, page 35.

INSHANTI PURE ESSENTIAL OILS

Debra Stoltzfus, Clinical Aromatherapist 48 Slaymaker Hill Rd • Kinzer 717-587-3990 Inshanti.com Inshanti’s CBD is full-spectrum (from the whole plant). It contains high CBD, low THC (below the federal legal limit), and is certified organic.

Legal in all 50 states. Non-addictive and non-intoxicating, and from a Kentucky farm that is pesticide-free, mold-free and federally regulated.

See ad, page 20.

YOUR CBD STORE

Stone Mill Plaza 1380 Columbia Ave • Lancaster 717-209-7123 GetSunMed.com At Your CBD Store®, we bring superior quality hemp-derived products for people and pets to the market. Because our oils, tinctures, skin care and pet products are formulated using the whole plant, they contain a full or broad spectrum which includes cannabinoids and terpenes. See ad, page 43.

CHIROPRACTIC A THERAPEUTIC EFFECT

Dr. Andrew Ashton 313D Primrose Ln • Mountville 717-285-9955 • ATherapeuticEffect.com Providing an array of therapeutic treatments and services that promote relaxation and detoxification. Our doctor specializes in low-impact Torque Release Technique which provides immediate results for people of all ages. See ad, page 2.

BLUE SKIES CHIROPRACTIC

Dr. Leah Reiff 2727 Old Philadelphia Pike • Bird-in-Hand 717-390-9998 • BlueSkiesChiroHealth.com Chiropractic is used for natural relief from conditions such as chronic pain, injuries, pregnancy complications, complications from aging & more. Dr. Reiff carefully considers every individual's comfort level & provides specific adjustments to support the body for benefits that will last.

HEATH CHIROPRACTIC & WELLNESS CENTER LLC Thomas Heath, DC 14 W Main St • Landisville 717-530-5555 HeathWellnessCenter.com

For 33 years, Dr. Heath has been helping people recover their health and reduce stress in their lives through Functional Integrative Brain /Body Balance.

He uses Professional Applied Kinesiology, Neuro Emotional Technique, Quantum Neurology, Nutritional counseling, traditional Chiropractic and other cutting-edge techniques. See ad, page 45.

LINK CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Dr. Thomas B. Wachtmann, DC 3130 Pricetown Rd • Fleetwood 610-944-5000 DrWachtmann.com

High-quality, patient-focused Chiropractic Care, and Functional Diagnostic Medicine evaluation and treatment. We focus on correcting the underlying causes of many disorders, diseases and conditions. Call for a complimentary consultation and benefit check. See ad, page 7.

CLINICAL AROMATHERAPIST INSHANTI

Debra Stoltzfus 48 Slaymaker Hill Rd • Kinzers 717-587-3990 • Inshanti.com Trust a nationally certified aromatherapist specializing in clinical consultations. Deb can work directly with your physician to create a plan that supports mind and body health. In addition to retail and wholesale accounts of proprietary blends and pure essential oils sourced directly from the farmers, half- and full-day education courses with certification are offered. See ad, page 20.

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Diane Levenson, Spiritual Coach Alternative Healing of PA 2298 Willow Street Pike • Lancaster 717-847-3213

Using her gifts, intuition and training in spiritual (not religious) life coaching, reiki and more, Diane creates a safe space for growth and movement through transition and change, helping you f i n d y o u r s o u l ’s p a t h a n d supporting you along the way. See ad, page 18.

LAUREN SWAVELY

Functional Medicine Health Coach Lauren@LaurenSwavely.com LaurenSwavely.com Using a holistic approach, Lauren’s focus is on helping you attain your vision of wellness.

Together we look at you as a whole person – body, mind, & spirit! Clients become confident & empowered as they take back control of their health, achieve their goals, face challenges with resilience, and explore what’s possible.

PARAGON LIFE COACHING

210 W Grant St • Lancaster 717-925-0551 Ashley@ParagonLifeCoaching.com ParagonLifeCoaching.com If you are ready to make changes in your life, find new motivation, navigate decisions, and build on your strengths, Paragon Life Coaching is ready to help you meet your goals. We offer individual life coaching (in person, phone, video), selfimprovement classes and presentations.

CONTINUING EDUCATION LANCASTER SCHOOL OF PSYCHODRAMA AND EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIES Liberty Place, 313 W Liberty St, Ste 263 Lancaster 717-466-0788 • RealTrueKaren@gmail.com RealTrueKaren.com

Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, teaches alternative therapies and experiential methods of psychodrama, sociometry, group process, Family and Systemic Constellations. CE credits for social workers, MFTs and licensed counselors, although all helpers and educators welcome. Act 48 and psychology credits pending. See ad, page 28.

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1164 Blattadahl Rd • Mohrsville 610-655-5271 GreyMuzzleManor.com Facebook.com/GreyMuzzleManor Marcy Tocker, MA, utilizes person-centered and strength-based therapeutic approaches. She specializes in animal-assisted therapy, EAGALA model equine therapy, play therapy and art therapy. Marcy believes that therapeutic change occurs when we provide empathy, unconditional positive regard, acceptance, and being there to support while our clients discover the strength we know they’ve always carried.

M. HARNISH COUNSELING & SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck, MA (she/her) 228 E Orange St • Lancaster 717-875-5066 MHarnishTherapy.com The work of healing and formation begins as we listen to what is going on in our inner life, what is happening in our heart and in our head. Using compassion and deep listening, I will be present with you and help you along your way.

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TAKE HEART COUNSELING & EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY 699 Wooltown Rd • Wernersville 717-917-7137 TakeHeartCounseling.com

Empowering individuals and families to find hope, healing and wholeness through therapeutic work with horses.

Trauma-informed services address trauma, anxiety, depression, self-worth, spirituality, family issues.

Offering individual and group sessions. See ad, page 45.

DENTISTRY SCHWARTZ FAMILY DENTAL David A. Schwartz, DDS, PC 701 Jefferson Blvd • West Lawn 610-670-6910 SchwartzFamilyDental.com

We provide general and cosmetic mercury-free dental care to the entire family with attention to “whole person health.” We have advanced training in the safe removal of mercury fillings, nonsurgical gum treatments, orthodontics, sleep apnea, solutions for TMJ, facial pain, and headaches. Visit our website to learn more. See ad, page 20.

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SUSQUEHANNA DENTAL ARTS Owen Allison, DMD 100 S 18th St • Columbia 717-684-3943 • 717-285-7033 SusquehannaDentalArts.com

We are a full-service family dental practice providing 100% mercury-free restorations, quality non-surgical periodontal care, INVISALIGN, implantretained dentures and partials.

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DNA TESTING ANY LAB TEST NOW

235 Bloomfield Dr, 110 Bldg B • Lititz 717-207-7604 AnyLabTestNow.com/Lititz Any Lab Test Now makes it easy for consumers and businesses to manage their health! We provide direct access to clinical lab tests, DNA tests, and drug- and alcohol-testing services, Vitamin B12 injections and more. See ad, page 33.

END-OF-LIFE CARE PEACEFUL PASSAGES

Elena Snyder, LPN 215-859-2556 Facebook/PeacefulHospiceCare

With over 20 years experience in hospice end-of-life care, Elena provides personalized, hands-on, end-of-life comfort care services such as nursing care, companionship, education, emotional support and spiritual guidance through life’s final journey. See ad, page 16.

FLOATATION THERAPY BALA FLOAT & WELLNESS

903 Nissley Rd Unit H • Lancaster 717-537-6955 BalaFloatCenter.com Experience deep relaxation, a lightness of being, and healing on a cellular level. At Bala we provide open floatation rooms with automated lighting and music therapy for a calming customer experience, relief from chronic pain and discomfort, and an escape from the stress of everyday life. Also offering massage, reiki and biomat. See ad, page 7.

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At Agape Institute, we pride ourselves in finding out why your body has decided to become sick. Utilizing Functional Medicine and Functional Neurology, we assess the body in multiple ways to find out what’s driving sickness and disease. See ad, page 3.

Long-time Herbalist Sarah Preston crafts small-batch herbal body-care and wellness products, teas, tinctures, syrups, salves and creams using organically grown and ethically sourced wildcrafted herbs. Consultations and custom blends available.

Products found at Radiance and Lemon Street Market, both in Lancaster. See ad, page 16.

Hoarding and excessive clutter can hide health threats such as mold, bacterial growth, insect and rodent infestation. With respect and sensitivity, DC Eager will professionally and discretely provide the clean-up needed to return the home to a healthy state.

Free assessment. See ads, pages 5 and 29.

Stephen A. Conicello, DC, EMT-P 735 Fox Chase, Ste 100 • Coatesville 484-593-0882 • AgapeFHC.com

FUNCTIONAL medicine FUNCTIONAL HEALTH OF LANCASTER, LLC

Dr. Mary Regan, CRNP 2207 Oregon Pike, Suite 301A • Lancaster MR@FH-Lancaster.com 717-490-6227 (call or text) FH-Lancaster.com Are you looking for a holistic root cause approach to your health and wellness? Functional Health of Lancaster provides comprehensive adult primary care, functional medicine, nutritional support, and yoga therapy, addressing your important health needs and wellness goals. Membership plans available. See ad, page 17.

Master Herbalist Sarah Preston Radiance, 13 W Grant St • Lancaster 717-290-1517 HerbsFromTheLabyrinth.com

HOLISTIC FEMININE HEALTH NATURE’S INTUITION

1390 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster 610-763-0434 Naturesintuition.net Nature’s Intuition offers a comfortable space for you to reconnect to your physical and emotional bodies. With a focus on helping women go from numbness to pleasure, and using movement to connect to your own intuition, Ashley offers Yoni Steaming, Pleasure Embodiment Coaching, Holistic Healing and Sensual Movement classes.

See ad, page 18.

WISE WOMAN HEALING

FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGY AGAPE INSTITUTE of FUNCTIONAL HEALTH & CHIROPRACTIC Stephen A. Conicello, DC, EMT-P 735 Fox Chase, Ste 100 • Coatesville 484-593-0882 • AgapeFHC.com

At Agape Institute, we pride ourselves in finding out why your body has decided to become sick. Utilizing Functional Medicine and Functional Neurology, we assess the body in multiple ways to find out what’s driving sickness and disease. See ad, page 3.

LANCASTER BRAIN & SPINE 221 Granite Run Dr • Lancaster 717-299-9600 LancasterBrainAndSpine.com

Our mission is to improve the lives of people suffering from complicated neurological and musculoskeletal conditions, by utilizing cutting-edge diagnostic testing and customized brainbased treatment plans. See ads, pages 20 and 59.

Pamela Craddock, CNM 31 S Lime St • Lancaster 717-925-7462 WiseWomanHealing.us

With over 42 years of nursing and midwifery experience, Pamela recognizes the interconnectedness of the body, mind and spirit and how imbalances can affect overall health. With compassion and experience she will work with you to formulate a plan that will help you achieve optimal health and wellness. See ad, page 17.

HOLISTIC wellness RESTORE YOUR ENERGY Deb Gallagher, RN, CLP Lancaster 717-203-9666 RestoreYourEnergy.org

Experience Eden Energy Medicine, a practice created by Donna Eden, healer, author and teacher. This method assists with balancing our nine energy systems which can become blocked by stress, pain and illnesses. When the energy is balanced, sleep, joy, concentration and immunity improve, and our body’s natural ability to heal can begin.

Darlene Eager, Clutter/Hoarding Recovery Specialist 6 E Kendig Rd • Willow Street 717-989-5763 DCEager.com

HUGHES HOME SERVICES

Green Cleaning Professionals Samantha Hughes samanthannehughes@yahoo.com 717-538-6383 We offer weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly services, as well as “deep cleaning” and organizing using organic safe environmentally kind products. We’d love to help meet specific goals and desires to make your home healthy and happy!

Please reach out to schedule a free consultation. See ad, page 45.

Integrative Medicine NICK D’ORAZIO, MD

Strasburg Health Associates 181 Hartman Bridge Rd • Ronks 717-687-7541 • DrNickDorazio@gmail.com Physician board certified in integrative and holistic medicine employs a wide variety of treatment modalities including Ayurveda, IV treatments including chelation, homeopathic, herbal, and nutritional medicine, natural injections, physical rehabilitation, and bodywork. Dr. D’Orazio is a physician who lives what he teaches.

Integrative wellness INTEGRATIVE HEALING ARTS STUDIO Christina Rossi, Practitioner 546 Penn Ave, Fl 2 • West Reading 610-451-9577 IntegrativeHealingArtsStudio.org

Providing an assortment of holistic healing services that include integrative massage therapy & bodywork, reiki & intuitive energy work, herbal medicine, aromatherapy, holistic nutrition, iridology, flower essences, Taoist arts, and spiritual guidance.

Services, classes & healing boutique. NCBTMBapproved CE provider. See ad, page 24.

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IV THERAPIES AQUA BLUE WELLNESS CENTER 2435 Old Philadelphia Pk Smoketown • 717-656-8615 AquaBlueWellnessCenter.com

We o ff e r a r a n g e o f I V hydration vitamin and mineral therapies to support your wellbeing. IV therapies can support hydration, weight loss, increased energy, improved immunity, address nutrient deficiencies and more. See ad, page 9.

LAB TESTING ANY LAB TEST NOW

235 Bloomfield Dr, 110 Bldg B • Lititz 717-207-7604 AnyLabTestNow.com/Lititz Any Lab Test Now makes it easy for consumers and businesses to manage their health! We provide direct access to clinical lab tests, DNA tests, and drug- and alcohol-testing services, Vitamin B12 injections and more. See ad, page 33.

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Offering conservation landscape design, hardscape and landscape construction, and consultation. Our approach is built on natural systems and processes and uses native plants, ecological benefactors, and organic amendments in design, construction and maintenance of native and naturalized landscape, dry laid stone, and stormwater mitigation. See ad, page 24.

LYMPHATIC THERAPY Aqua Blue Wellness Center

Electro-Lymphatic Therapy 2435 Old Philadelphia Pike • Smoketown 717-656-8615 • AquaBlueWellnessCenter.com

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Our lymphatic system plays an important role in supporting our immunity. Over the past 18 years of treating our clients, we’ve found that supporting the proper flow of lymphatic fluid through electrolymphatic therapy positively affects many conditions including: Lymphedema, edema, cancer, Lyme disease, heart disease, enlarged prostate, post-injury/surgical healing and more. See ad, page 9.

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MATTRESSES NATURAL/ORGANIC GARDNER’S MATTRESS & MORE 830 Plaza Blvd • Lancaster 717-299-6228 GardnersMattressAndMore.com

Gardner’s is a locally owned mattress store offering a wide selection of quality natural and organic mattresses ranging from the luxurious to economical. Educating our customers on getting a good night’s sleep and the benefits of sleeping naturally and organically is our mission. To schedule your private sleep consultation, go to SleepLancaster.com/ Natural. See ads, pages 30 and 31.

MATTRESS 1st by INTERIORS HOME 3130 Columbia Ave • Lancaster 717-390-2000 415 Simpson Ferry Rd • Camp Hill 717-686-4000 Mattress1stByInteriorsHome.com

Organic and natural bedding free from irritants, allergens, pressure-point discomfort or temperature struggles so that you are assured the best night’s sleep possible. Visit our trained and certified mattress specialists who will help you find the best mattress for your needs. See ad, page 26.

MEDIATION/ CONFLICT RESOLUTION PANGEA MEDIATION

717-219-7174 Mila@PangeaMediation.solutions PangeaMediation.solutions At Pangea Mediation, we aim to provide the space and tools needed to resolve conflicts in a healthy and productive manner through mediation, conflict coaching and training. We specialize in coparenting, separation & divorce mediation. Let’s get started! See ad, page 12.

MOLD REMEDIATION DC EAGER EMERGENCY SERVICES Darlene Eager, Certified Mold Remediation Specialist 6 E Kendig Rd • Willow Street 717-989-5763 • DCEager.com

Mold can be a hidden danger. Let DC Eager keep your family and friends safe. Our technicians are trustworthy, knowledgeable and certified in the safe removal of mold. DC Eager takes pride in their quality of work and customer service. “We Educate Before We Estimate.” Free mold assessments for your home or business. No chemicals! See ads, pages 5 and 29.

NATUROPATH - traditional HEALTH BY DESIGN CLINIC

Jeannie Peck, Traditional Naturopath 352 E Main St, Ste 100 • Leola 717-556-8103 HBDClinic.com We provide nutrition and detoxification services for adults and children using an integrative functional medicine approach, offer therapeutic massage therapy for your relaxation or chronic pain needs, and permanent fat and weight-loss services. See ad, page 10.

NATUROPATHic doctor HEALTH FOR LIFE

Ann Lee, ND, L.Ac 112 Cornell Ave • Lancaster 717-669-1050 DoctorNaturalMedicine.com Learn how your symptoms are connected, get answers, and achieve improved health and wellbeing as we facilitate your body’s ability to heal itself through acupuncture and naturopathic medicine. Special focus on hormone balancing and fertility (now offering DUTCH hormone testing).

NUTRITION FUSION INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS

Dana M. Elia, DCN, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND 717-917-5259 FusionIHW.com At Fusion Integrative Health & Wellness, Dr. Dana Elia utilizes an integrative, functional and personalized approach to nutrition, health, and healing.

Like a detective on a special case, she’ll uncover the root causes of challenging health issues so that you can feel well again. Most major insurance plans are accepted. See ad, page 23.

organic hair salon THE GREEN ROOM ORGANIC SALON 8 E Walnut St • Lancaster • 717-844-1051 1387 E Main St • Mount Joy • 717-653-2502 104 Warwick St • Lititz • 717-844-2528 TheGreenRoomLancaster.com

Refresh your mind, body and spirit with natural and organic products for hair and skin. We use OWAY, an ammonia-free color and product line packed with biodynamic, fair trade ingredients and pure essential oils. We specialize in cuts, color, DEVA cuts, styling, bridal styling and more. See ad, page 18.

PET CARE TILL WE MEET AGAIN In-Home Pet Euthanasia 717-897-0536 TillWeMeetAgain.com

For some, euthanasia of their pet at the veterinary hospital is simply not an option. Dr. Mark Huber and his wife Stacey provide home euthanasia for dogs and cats in the most comfortable environment possible—your home—with the intention of bringing peace and comfort to ease the pain of losing a beloved pet. See ad, page 45.

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reiki HELENE WILLIAMS REIKI

Helene Williams, BSN, RN 313 W Liberty St, Suite 267 • Lancaster 717-269-6084 HeleneWilliamsReiki.com Reiki is a very gentle holistic practice, which assists in promoting balance in body, mind and spirit.

After a reiki session, many people express a deep sense of relaxation, calming and peace. Frequently anxiety, stress and worry are relieved. Also offering classes and workshops in Mindfulness Meditation.

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MICHELE DE ROSA 717-330-8549 MDeRosa@yahoo.com

Reiki and Cranial Sacral Therapy care for the mind, body and spirit.

These practices can be done individually or combined to provide the benefits of channeling positive energy, the release of physical and emotional trauma and can eliminate tension patterns we carry internally. Michele is also a Certified Grief Educator and Grief Movement Guide.

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skincare GSL ORGANICS

216 S Church St • Quarryville 717-844-1444 GSLOrganics.org With over 25 years of experience, owner Candy St. Martine-Pack, a certified aroma-therapist, formulates all skincare products using natural and organic ingredients to treat a variety of skin issues including, eczema, psoriasis and the effects of aging. See ad, page 10.

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SPIRITUALITY URBAN WELL—A SOURCE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

RESONATE YOU

Jennifer Lobo Lititz/Lancaster ResonateYou@gmail.com ResonateYou.com

Saint James Episcopal Church 119 N Duke St • Lancaster 717-397-4858 • UrbanWell.org

…where diverse people with different faiths gather in a spirit of humility and openness to learn from one another how to quiet the noise of everyday life, become more grounded and find energy, serenity and rest.

See ad, page 43.

Jen Lobo, a voice teacher for over 20 years, will help guide you to release your singing or sounding voice to help in your own personal well-being and healing. Offering private lessons, group classes and sound meditations.

SOUNDWISE HEALTH

Lana Ryder, LMT, AADP, CSTP 313 W Liberty St, Suite 267 • Lancaster SoundwiseHealth.com 610-301-4356 Throughout the region, our trained and experienced professional practitioners offer individual intuitive sound therapy sessions, group immersions, sonic massage, ReikiSound, ReikiVoice, hospice CareSong and classes in fundamental education in the art and science of sound healing.

Sharing the healing power of sound, voice and music for 45 years.

SPECIALTY FOODS

THERAPEUTIC WRITING WRITE FROM THE HEART

Creative Writing Workshops Melissa Greene • Lancaster 717-393-4713 • WriteFromTheHeart.us Our uplifting, be-who-you-are workshops awaken the creative spirit, gently, without intimidation.

Taught in an atmosphere of warmth, whimsy and trust, they are a safe haven for all ages.

Especially those who long to overcome perfectionism and selfdoubt. No grades or red pen. Sharing optional.

Mischief a must. See ad, page 5.

Thermal Imaging Aqua Blue Wellness Center

KWEE-JACK FISH CO

Wild Alaskan Salmon & Halibut Shares 717-842-0180

Sustainably harvested wild Alaskan salmon and halibut available, fisherman-direct.

Pre-order annually (spring) at EatWildSalmon.com for local pick-up (fall) of sushi-grade delicious nutrition, deep-frozen at the peak of freshness to enjoy throughout the year. See ad, page 38.

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Lori Martin, BCNP 2435 Old Philadelphia Pike • Smoketown 717-656-8615 • AquaBlueWellnessCenter.com A family wellness center offering thermal imaging for breast and body, detox therapies, therapeutic and oncology massage, lymphatic drainage, a full-spectrum infrared sauna, nutritional education and more. Thermal imaging is a safe, non-invasive procedure for early detection of sources of pain, injury and disease.

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SHALOM THERMOGRAPHY Darlene Heath, DC, CTT 14 W Main St • Landisville 717-530-5555 HeathWellnessCenter.com

Natural Awakenings Lancaster/Berks

Thermography provides a noninvasive view of potential health concerns in the breast and body.

Used as a risk assessment tool, thermography is able to detect inflammation and metabolic changes, and offers a proactive, prevention-focused approach to health care. See ad, page 45.

WEIGHT LOSS Health by Design

Jeannie Peck, Traditional Naturopath 352 E Main St, Ste 100 • Leola 717-556-8103 • HBDClinic.com We can help you reach your weightloss goals by offering customized nutrition, body sculpting, weight loss and detoxification services. As you release stubborn fat, you’ll receive support and guidance through every step of your journey.

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Yoga KULA KAMALA FOUNDATION & YOGA ASHRAM 17 Basket Rd • Reading 484-509-5073 KulaKamalaFoundation.org

Kula Kamala Foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian spiritual center dedicated to mindfulness, non-violence, unity, and healing. Our public and professional programs serve people from all walks of life. No matter who you are, we have something special for you. OM. Peace. See ad, page 12.

MINDFUL YOGA AT SAINT JAMES 119 N Duke St • Lancaster 717-397-4858 SaintJamesLancaster.org/Yoga

A simpler style of yoga that helps achieve a higher level of connection with one’s mind, body and spirit by focusing on the present moment. Is suitable for a wide range of body types and abilities. In-person and via Zoom. See ad, page 43.

WEST END YOGA STUDIO

221 W Walnut St • Lancaster WestEndYogaStudio@gmail.com WestEndYogaStudio.com A diverse yoga studio offering a full range of yoga, meditation, and movement classes, in studio, outdoors a n d v i r t u a l . We a r e community-oriented, creating a welcoming learning environment dedicated to healing and compassion. All ages and levels welcome. Offering New Student Unlimited Monthly passes and other discounts. See ad, page 37.

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