BY: Jennie Fish Conscious Creations is bringing to Santa Cruz a fresh and fully organic menu in a casual café style setting with a cool island ambiance. This restaurant is dedicated to not only bringing you a unique menu that inspires your taste buds, it is also a place to gather with your loved ones [...]

Growing up my brothers and I could not wait for our unsuspecting neighbor’s pomegranate bush to bloom in fall so that we could rip this delicious fruit from its source, and munch on the delectable seeds.   Oh, how the memories of that sweet and tangy juice and its eruption of flavor that tantalized every taste [...]

Avocados have received a bad rap for being just a fatty fruit for far too long, but the truth is this versatile produce is anything but bad for you.  Avocados are so rich in protein.  In actuality the protein from avocados is more easily absorbed into the body due to their fiber content, as opposed [...]

Some may find it fascinating, being the health nut that I am, that it’s been only recently that I have fallen madly in love with the super nutritious BEET! I have foolishly passed them by on my weekly Farmer’s Market trips for far too long, but thankfully I have finally stepped out of my nutritional [...]

It looks like pond water, it tastes like… pond water, but it’s supposed to be very, very good for you. It’s superfood powder, and it’s beckoning from the shelf of an expensive health food store near you. In a recent interview, Doctor Randy Baker of the Pacific Center for Integral Health in Soquel said, “If I [...]

    Health For Yourself and Your Oceans When considering which variety of fish to make a meal of, there are two concerns one might have. The first is rampant overfishing, which usually results in food chain imbalance and extinction of certain species. The second concern regards personal health as opposed to ecological stability. There [...]

If I planted one thing successfully this year, it was cucumbers. In just a couple months, three tiny cucumber starts transformed themselves into a ravenous mass of cucumber vines, expanding outwards in all directions until they dominated the entire bed, then spilled over the wall and onto the path.   Delicate yellow flowers turned to tiny gherkin-looking [...]

Sometimes during summer it’s hard to figure out what to eat. I know that a lot of days all I really want is frozen yogurt and cold drinks, but this is certainly not enough to sustain an active person. I’ve struggled to find foods that are substantial as well as moist or chilly, but this [...]

Stop nuking your food now!  Microwaves are killing your food, thus wasting your money and damaging your body.  It is few and far between these days that I use a microwave to heat my food, but it is true that I do have an occasional lazy spell when I’m hungry and waiting to heat up my meal [...]