It’s been a year like no other here at MOM’s! Below is a letter I sent to all employees: I founded MOM’s [Organic Foods Express, at the time] back in 1987. People sometimes suggest that it must be difficult and stressful to run such a large company- I reply, “No- the larger the company has…
I watch a lot of nature shows. I wonder sometimes how animals are able to eat only unwashed, raw food- and drink water from pretty much any source (my dog frequently quenches her thirst from the muddy puddles in the street and my cats drink from the toilet)- without getting sick. Some animals even eat…
Nearly 15 years ago, my wife and I had our first child. One night soon after, I heard my wife semi-silently sobbing in our bathroom. I walked in to find her sitting on the edge of the tub, rocking back and forth (almost in the fetal position), crying “I don’t want to leave my baby.”…
It’s that time of year when farmers’ markets and roadside produce stands are popping up all over. I like to go to the Bethesda Farmers’ Market on Sunday mornings to scope out the products and farmers. And I like that farmers’ markets serve as incubators for start-up producers, whether it be baked goods, small farms,…
I recently came across this product and was incredibly relieved to finally find a salt that hasn’t been genetically modified (although, the “pinkness” of this salt makes me wonder if it has been spliced with the genes of salmon)! This would be funny if this product label were a spoof, but it is real. There…
Society evolves, albeit sometimes slowly. I am 49 years old. There are things happening now that I would not have predicted when I was young. Aside from the fact that gasoline is unleaded, DDT is banned, and there is more truth in advertising (cigarettes were once advertised as being good for us), we have a…