In keeping with the end-of-the-year trend in the blogosphere, I’ve made a list of Small Footprint Family’s top ten posts of 2009. These are the articles that you, my dear readers, searched for and visited more than any others on my site.
Over the last year, it’s been interesting to see how some posts I never thought would fly still get big hits every day, while other posts I was sure would make waves barely raised a spike on my visitor stats. Another interesting trend over the last year was that the top 10 posts of the last year were all about food. In fact, the top 20 are. We are primarily concerned with food around here too, so in 2010, expect to see more articles reflecting our family’s deeper journeys into small footprint foodways.
Without further ado, the Top 10 Small Footprint Posts of 2009…
#10 Ten Ways to Strengthen Your Immune System – This rundown of 10 food-based methods for preventing colds and flu was a big hit during October and November when the H1N1 scare was in full swing. I’m grateful that so many people are choosing natural methods of preventing illness and building good health.
#9 Soaking Nuts and Seeds Makes Them Better – I am very glad that so many people are reading this post because it means that more people are getting the full nutritional value from the nuts and seeds they eat. And, hopefully it also means that interest in traditional foodways and whole food nutrition is growing.
#8 Raw Butternut Squash Cookies – Perhaps because these are unusual, many people have sought out this recipe. They are unusual, low in sugar, and quite yummy!
#7 Grassfed Beef Can SOLVE Global Warming – This is my personal favorite post, and I spent a great deal of time researching and writing it. As a former vegan and passionate environmentalist, I feel very strongly about eating animal foods that come from humanely raised livestock fed in ways that sustain communities, improve grassland, rebuild topsoil and sequester carbon. It’s a pet cause of mine, and I do everything I can to support farmers and ranchers that raise (or want to raise) meat, dairy and eggs in this sustainable manner.
#6 Making Homemade Butter is Easy – I wrote this early post after learning to make homemade cultured butter from an article in Mother Earth News. I am so excited by how easy it is to create this nutritious, ancient staple food, that I continue to do it regularly for my husband—even though Babyzilla and I can’t enjoy it!
#5 Soy is Not a Health Food – This piece contradicting the health claims of the ubiquitous legume became another overnight StumbleUpon success, and continues to draw hundreds of readers a day. Hopefully that means fewer people eating soy products.
#4 The Skinny on Fat, Part 1 – This was part one of three explaining what is really making Americans fat, tired and drug-dependent, and explains the role that a diet high in polyunsaturated oils and omega-6 fatty acids plays in obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Part 2 is about carbohydrates and sugar and Part 3 is about hidden chemicals in our food and how they each contribute to America’s health epidemics. I hope you’ll read them too!
#3 A Salt Worth Its Salt – I really enjoyed doing the research for this one, right down to picking the photograph. If you missed it, read more about how ordinary table salt is like the refined, white table sugar of the seasoning world, and what to choose instead.
#2 Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt – It would seem there are lots of people out there like my daughter and I who don’t eat dairy products and are looking for a yummy, soy-free alternative to cow’s milk yogurt. Glad I can help!
#1 The Inconvenient Truth About Canola Oil – To my complete surprise, this little missive on the problems with this so-called “health food” broke all traffic records for Small Footprint Family, and has had tens of thousands of readers since I published it in September. May the gospel about good fats spread onward in 2010!
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