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Can’t remember your 2011 New Year’s resolution? Don’t beat yourself up. It’s difficult to make a healthy change in a culture of quick fixes that doesn’t value realistic goals when it comes to diet, exercise or other habits. Have you set yourself up for failure by believing in an impossible ideal?

Chef, cooking instructor and award-winning cookbook author Peter Berley has taken his passion for locally sourced and seasonal cooking and has decided to pass it on through the unique classroom environment he has created at North Fork Kitchen. Peter sat down with Organic Connections to share his vision of the cooking school he built in a remote area of Long Island—and how he is using it to create a better world, one cook at a time.

Combine ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen and enjoy the scents and taste of this wintertime drink.

The more we learn about honey, the more we learn how sweet it is. This natural golden nectar of bees gives us not just a versatile sweetener but health benefits as well. Honey is rich in antioxidants and flavonoids, and is antibacterial, antifungal and even probiotic when it isn’t pasteurized.

Farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture provide increasing sources for locally grown, raw (unpasteurized) honey for many of us. But before you buy your next pot of honey (or maybe your first), consider the following information.

Jamie Oliver shares how everyone can cook healthy and affordable food and what makes his cafeteria revolution so powerful with Organic Connections, the magazine of Natural Vitality.

Filling, nourishing, easy on calories, and packed with vegetables and lean protein, a well-designed noodle bowl is the perfect one-dish meal.

While 2011 was the year of coffee research what most people still don’t know is that, when it comes to potential health benefits, the way you brew coffee matters.

We all deserve safe, efficacious products, and because of consumers speaking out, mass market is finally waking up to naturals.

You probably associate detox with liver and kidneys. But it’s actually your skin that could be the greatest indicator a cleanse is in order.