SuRu’s Blog
A treasure trove of great information on a wide range of topics. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, you’ll get hungry reading about delicious food. Lots of great stories from the adventures of the Rubin Rodeo along with plenty of recipes and strategies for better health.
Sugar is Not Your Friend
Dramatically cutting the refined sugar in our lives can be an effective strategy for preventing disease.
Cancer Sucks
Our current health system offers no real tactics to prevent cancer. But there are things we can do to improve our odds.
An Edible Victory
Join my 21 day sugar challenge class and start the new year off right!
Grown and Flown
There is something both exciting and unsettling about encouraging your kid to follow her dreams when it means traveling so far and for so long.
It’s Not Too Late to Start a Veggie Garden
Three easy, edible crops you can start right now, in early July, for delicious success this summer.
Growing Patience
Can growing food help cultivate this ability to wait? I’d like to think it can.
5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Love Spinach
Here’s how to get your kids growing eating and loving spinach. You’ll be glad you did!
Speaking Fondly of Spinach
Sneaking spinach into smoothies or brownies is a disservice to spinach. These pureed tactics do not cultivate an appreciation for green leafy veggies, if anything they feed the sweet tooth that too many of us have. Trust me, you want your kids to speak fondly of spinach.
Less Screens, More Greens
We need to get outside, back to the garden. Vegetable garden projects can offer up an elegant “technology” that incorporates science, math, social studies, art and history. STEAM curriculum is all there, outside. Screen free.
Garden Book Inspiration
As I spend this spring writing my book, tentatively titled SuRu's Garden Adventure, I'm thinking about who my ideal reader would be. There is no use writing a book about gardening with and for kids for those who already have their hands in the dirt. This book will be...
