Welcome to my new blog!
I'm a wife, mom, long-time organic gardener and since 2009 a new organic farmer, Registered Dietitian, author of the book A Dietitian's Cancer Story and website CancerRD.com. In between all that and more, I am a multiple-time cancer survivor. My website has focused on nutrition information for cancer survivors, however I began my 'dianadyer' blog in June 2007 to share a wider scope of my thoughts about life as a long-time cancer survivor, food and nutrition (particularly as it relates to cancer), gardening, recipes, our environment, and the urgent need for developing food systems that promote health not disease, ecological sustainability, and social justice.In January 2009, I began my blog "365DaysOfKale" to write about my passion for "all things kale" (along with other Brassica vegetables) and the CancerVictoryGardens™ blog in March 2009 to help everyone touched by cancer cultivate health through a garden's nourishment of body and soul.
I am beginning to transfer content from my long-standing website www.CancerRD.com to this new blog by the same name. Why? The simplest reason is so I can update information without paying for the very expensive web maintenance and technical assistance needed. My website is SO old (it was developed in 1997 and launched in 1998) that the programming language behind the website is woefully out of date (i.e., maybe by 1000 years in computer-talk). Being so out-of-date translates to being very, very expensive to have someone else do updates for me, let alone design a brand-new website.
So bit by bit, I am reviewing what content I have on my website, tweaking it if needed, and then transferring it over here. It will take a while, even though it is far less time consuming than creating new material for my other blogs.
In the meantime, enjoy my other blogs and feel free to go back and forth between my website and this new blog. Thanks for hanging in there with me!
Diana Dyer, MS, RD
PS - Our farm's name is The Dyer Family Organic Farm in Ann Arbor, MI, and we can be found at Facebook as The Dyer Family Organic Farm/Dick's Pretty Good Garlic. Our website is not even started yet, so don't look for that. I do post some farm updates on my dianadyer blog but many shorter ones, including photos are posted on our farm Facebook page. If you are so inclined, we do love it when you 'like' our farm. We sure do!!
