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LOCAL HAPPENINGS
MARCH running at a comfortable pace. Mentors Tuesdays, March 31 — May 19
will provide guidance and support to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Saturday, March 14 help you meet your goals. Each session at LVHN
Get Out! Lehigh Valley: includes presentations on various topics,
Allentown Rose Garden Walk including buying proper walking and This eight-week course aims to help you
running shoes; injury prevention; heart learn to stop worrying and focus instead on
A Wildlands Conservancy naturalist health, nutrition; and more. Programs “being.” Modeled after a groundbreaking
and guide will lead this one-hour are available in Bethlehem Township, Massachusetts Medical Center program,
walk over a flat, 0.6-mile trail that Hanover Township and Allentown. the course will guide participants in
winds its way through the recently The program costs $50; $45 with early meditation, deep relaxation techniques,
renovated park next to Cedar Creek. registration. For more information and better communication techniques and
It’s an easy hike and appropriate for to register, go to www.firststrides.com/ more. Information sessions will be held
children of all ages. Leashed dogs are bttc_morning.html March 9, 16 and 25. Cost is $150 for this
welcome. The walk starts at 10 a.m. program. For more information or to
Register by calling 610-402-CARE. Saturday, March 28 register, call 610-402-CARE.
Spring thaw: Organic flowers for
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, your holiday table APRIL
March 17 — June 3
First Strides beginner walking Shake off the winter blues with a free, Saturday, April 11
and running workshops DIY flower arranging station to ring in Get Out! Lehigh Valley:
spring at Rodale Institute from 10 a.m. Louise Moore Park Walk
This 12-week program through the to 4 p.m. Call 610-683-1400 for more
Lehigh Valley Health Network is information or to register. This 2-mile plus, child-/family-friendly walk
aimed at helping women progress will take advantage of the beautiful open
from the couch to walking, jogging or and wooded areas of the park and will last
— continued from page 43 —
No room for a garden? No problem!
If you don’t have the room or time for
a garden, another option is a joining their food is raised without the use of certified because she won’t be on the site
a program called a CSA: Community synthetic fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. long enough. Cunniff started her farm in
“We practice holistic and sustainable 2012 through the nonprofit Seed Farm
Supported Agriculture. farming methods,” Davies says. “We grow program, a training course and agricultural
Customers pay a lump sum at the 5 acres of vegetables, raise pastured poultry business incubator that partners with Lehigh
beginning of the season in exchange for a and eggs, wood lot pork, and free range County and Penn State Extension’s Start
weekly portion of seasonal vegetables for the lamb and offer both summer and winter Farming program. After three years, she has
duration of the growing season. Kneehigh CSA shares. We grow our vegetables to find a new site — meaning she’d have
Farm in Upper MilfordTownship, Wild Fox without the use of synthetic fertilizers and to start the certification process all over
Farm in WashingtonTownship and Hunter Hill pesticides or GMO [genetically modified] again. About the only concession she makes
Farm in ForksTownship all offer CSA options, seed. Our animals never receive hormones to conventional farming, she says, is using
as do a number of other regional farms. or antibiotics and eat local grain.” a tractor for cultivation — and sometimes
“It’s a happy medium for people who According to Hunter Hill Farm’s website, she struggles with that, because it “uses
want naturally raised food, but can’t raise they use only compost and manure to petroleum products.”
their own food,” Ben Davies of Wild Fox fertilize, “and cultivate primarily with hand To find a CSA, farm share or buying
says. “They can support sustainably raised tools. We don’t use synthetic herbicides or club program near you, check out the Buy
healthy food and feel good about that.” pesticides — ever.” Local Greater Lehigh Valley website and
Though none of those farms are certified Emma Cunniff of Kneehigh employs click on “farms” under the “local foods” tab:
organic by the USDA, they all pledge that organic methods on her farm, but isn’t buylocalgreaterlehighvalley.org.
MARCH running at a comfortable pace. Mentors Tuesdays, March 31 — May 19
will provide guidance and support to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Saturday, March 14 help you meet your goals. Each session at LVHN
Get Out! Lehigh Valley: includes presentations on various topics,
Allentown Rose Garden Walk including buying proper walking and This eight-week course aims to help you
running shoes; injury prevention; heart learn to stop worrying and focus instead on
A Wildlands Conservancy naturalist health, nutrition; and more. Programs “being.” Modeled after a groundbreaking
and guide will lead this one-hour are available in Bethlehem Township, Massachusetts Medical Center program,
walk over a flat, 0.6-mile trail that Hanover Township and Allentown. the course will guide participants in
winds its way through the recently The program costs $50; $45 with early meditation, deep relaxation techniques,
renovated park next to Cedar Creek. registration. For more information and better communication techniques and
It’s an easy hike and appropriate for to register, go to www.firststrides.com/ more. Information sessions will be held
children of all ages. Leashed dogs are bttc_morning.html March 9, 16 and 25. Cost is $150 for this
welcome. The walk starts at 10 a.m. program. For more information or to
Register by calling 610-402-CARE. Saturday, March 28 register, call 610-402-CARE.
Spring thaw: Organic flowers for
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, your holiday table APRIL
March 17 — June 3
First Strides beginner walking Shake off the winter blues with a free, Saturday, April 11
and running workshops DIY flower arranging station to ring in Get Out! Lehigh Valley:
spring at Rodale Institute from 10 a.m. Louise Moore Park Walk
This 12-week program through the to 4 p.m. Call 610-683-1400 for more
Lehigh Valley Health Network is information or to register. This 2-mile plus, child-/family-friendly walk
aimed at helping women progress will take advantage of the beautiful open
from the couch to walking, jogging or and wooded areas of the park and will last
— continued from page 43 —
No room for a garden? No problem!
If you don’t have the room or time for
a garden, another option is a joining their food is raised without the use of certified because she won’t be on the site
a program called a CSA: Community synthetic fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. long enough. Cunniff started her farm in
“We practice holistic and sustainable 2012 through the nonprofit Seed Farm
Supported Agriculture. farming methods,” Davies says. “We grow program, a training course and agricultural
Customers pay a lump sum at the 5 acres of vegetables, raise pastured poultry business incubator that partners with Lehigh
beginning of the season in exchange for a and eggs, wood lot pork, and free range County and Penn State Extension’s Start
weekly portion of seasonal vegetables for the lamb and offer both summer and winter Farming program. After three years, she has
duration of the growing season. Kneehigh CSA shares. We grow our vegetables to find a new site — meaning she’d have
Farm in Upper MilfordTownship, Wild Fox without the use of synthetic fertilizers and to start the certification process all over
Farm in WashingtonTownship and Hunter Hill pesticides or GMO [genetically modified] again. About the only concession she makes
Farm in ForksTownship all offer CSA options, seed. Our animals never receive hormones to conventional farming, she says, is using
as do a number of other regional farms. or antibiotics and eat local grain.” a tractor for cultivation — and sometimes
“It’s a happy medium for people who According to Hunter Hill Farm’s website, she struggles with that, because it “uses
want naturally raised food, but can’t raise they use only compost and manure to petroleum products.”
their own food,” Ben Davies of Wild Fox fertilize, “and cultivate primarily with hand To find a CSA, farm share or buying
says. “They can support sustainably raised tools. We don’t use synthetic herbicides or club program near you, check out the Buy
healthy food and feel good about that.” pesticides — ever.” Local Greater Lehigh Valley website and
Though none of those farms are certified Emma Cunniff of Kneehigh employs click on “farms” under the “local foods” tab:
organic by the USDA, they all pledge that organic methods on her farm, but isn’t buylocalgreaterlehighvalley.org.
