Healthy PEI

Healthy PEI Local Businesses

Ever wonder who else is striving to be more health conscious on Prince Edward Island? There are many of us. There are also many businesses that offer healthy, organic and local produce, seafoods and services.

Depending on what you are interested in, you can generally find it. Many growers and farmers offer their produce at the Farmer's Market.

Other interesting ways are to hire a classically trained chef to come into your house with a group of friends and learn how to cook with whole foods.

Or enjoy a bowl of healthy choice, award-winning seafood chowder from a local chef who uses no preservatives or additives or anything else you can't pronounce.

Maybe you're having a big party and want to find a caterer who will bring local food products and offer a menu that has been approved and modified by a certified dietitian.

For all of you Islanders out there who want to either start or continue a life with a concentrated effort to cook and eat better... DIG IN!

Please contact Moe @ 902-628-1285 or mkerr123@msn.com for more information. Kindly refer anyone you think would be interested in this lens and/or Maureen's contact info. Thanks!

photo credit: Oliver Sauve

Healthy PEI Business Owners

People making a difference on PEI

PEI, for many reasons, has some of the highest rates of diabetes, cancer, allergies, obesity and other such ailments and diseases. Canada's smallest province has and probably will continue to receive negative media attention about this.

The business owners below are examples of people making a difference for Islanders to access healthy products and services.

On my agenda over the next few months is to set up a place for other like-minded, health-conscious, people who have accessible products and services available to Islanders. Please keep an eye out for www.HealthyPEI.com and also for my friends and clients which include:

- restaurant owner and whole food chef Stephen Hunter who offers cooking classes and home catering;

- healthy-choice chowder from chef Greg Aitken and www.SpecialtyChowders.com;

- local seafood from Mickey Rose of MR Seafoods;

- home cooking and catering from Dianne Fullerton of Borrowed Kitchen;

- and local and organic produce delivery service from Aaron Koleszar (not my client but someone with a remarkable service worth mentioning);

- macrobiotic cooking with my good friend Sarah Forrester Wendt and her awesome Facebook group "What did you eat today?".

Please contact me for information on any of them. My mission is to spread the word about these guys and gals.

photo credit: Loretta Campbell

Want to learn more about organic living?

Order books to help you live the healthy lifestyle that you want

Knowledge is power and learning about whole foods, organic living and the benefits of buying locally can have a great impact on your life.

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

Amazon Price: $16.29 (as of 12/22/2009)

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A gardener's supply book)

by: Eliot Coleman

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 12/22/2009)

Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 12/22/2009)

"How to" healthy videos

Ever wonder how to eat mussels?

Prince Edward Island is a dream come true for health conscious "foodies". Have a look at a few videos of people's recommendations of how to eat the world's most natural, organic foods - seafood.