my intro

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

I haven't yet looked thru the archives but will eventually, I'm sure.

 

Wanted to send off brief intro: I'm a mom of 2 young kids. I work from

home doing graphic art/web design and other marketing things for several

companies/organizations. My hubby works for Conservation International

(in the news these days for their co-authoring of an extinction report

related to global warming.) We are trying to get ourselves and our house

healthy and working efficiently. When our appliances finally died, we

bought energy efficient ones - we chose not to purchase a drier. We

drive a Prius, we use EE light bulbs and hopefully will be installing

solar panels one day. We compost, eat organically, belong to CSAs

because don't have the space for garden where we live (though am

excited for the prospect of doing some indoor gardening...) Baby steps

though. Lots to do. We desire to homeschool and already have a co-op

started for the kiddies. We are advocates of attachment parenting,

" extended " breastfeeding, use of homeopathy and naturopathic

alternatives to conventionaly medicine and also advocates of Aletha

Solter's aware parenting/discipline methods... I'm also a practicing

buddhist. I guess I could go on.

 

With regards to raw foods, two + years ago I sort of happened across

meeting some raw foodists who helped me to feel better. My baby was

keeping me up all night .and my food choices were really making me

sluggish. I began reading a bunch about raw food and got all the

certificates that the folks at thegardendiet.com offer. I feel pretty

well versed in the whys and hows of rawfood, but feel I need the support

of a group to help me practice it more fully. So, I'm happy to have

found out that this listserve is here - I think the people are more

local to me (I'm in the DC metro area) and so am hoping to connect and

get support.

 

Thanks and regards

Linda (oh, not so brief an intro!)

:-)