Brenda Farrell | Luxury & Lifestyle Travel

I have become increasingly concerned about the chemicals that surround us in our day-to-day lives and when I hear that 50% of cancers are preventable, this makes me determined to minimize the risks from those preventables in our lives. My friends know that I am an ardent watchdog, always seeking [...]

Well, our first snowfall is here and as usual, we are busily clearing the driveway and paths around the house. I couldn’t find my snowboots so I slipped on my fancy, patterned rubber boots. Well, after I had slipped on the boots, I also slipped on the areas that hubby [...]

The Environmental Working Group, a Washington DC non-profit organization (www.ewg.org) recently published some compelling reasons for choosing organic produce. They examined a wide range of fruits and vegetables for pesticide residue and here is a snapshot of their findings: The list of the items with the HIGHEST amount of pesticide [...]

Some months back I wrote about the wonderful sighting from the dog beach at Ambleside of the baby green herons, the huge beaver and today, a pod of harbour porpoises in a feeding frenzy in Georgia Straight, escorted by a couple of harbour seals and a few excited seagulls. At [...]

So Canadian Tire is piloting the sale of groceries from their stores. How anybody would consider buying anything edible from a store that reeks of artificial air fresheners, rubber and chemicals for garden and home is beyond me. An article I read in a newspaper recently (Globe & Mail?) said [...]