VEGETARIAN PARENTING MAGAZINE GOES ONLINE

The Vegetarian Baby & Child print magazine merged with VegNews last April, and since then, the website was fairly inactive. Now VBC has launched their new online magazine!

Vegetarian Baby & Child magazine, in print for four years from early 1999 to 2003, merged last April with the vegan news magazine VegNews, published out of San Francisco. Parents looking for information on raising vegan children will find it in their new regular four-page Child & Teens" section.

The end of the first and only print magazine devoted solely to vegetarian parenting left the website, www.vegetarianbaby.com, without a clear purpose. So editor Melanie Wilson and site manager Lucy Watkins decided to launch the rebirth of their publication online. October 15th saw the release of a completely new and updated Vegetarian Baby & Child Online Magazine with a scope and content to rival the former print publication.

Now, every vegetarian family, from semi-veg and thinking-about-going-veg all the way to vegan and raw fooders will find a section to serve up the faire theyve been missing. Along with some of the old favorites (healthy kid stories, Q&A, interviews, and nutrition), weve added sections focusing on homeschooling, raw foods, fathering, childrens food diaries, building community, and much more," says Watkins. In addition, theyve included, by request, sections on public schooling and daycare, natural living, pregnancy and breastfeeding, teens, fiction, and more.

VBC reflects my parenting ethic and my personality; its so practical and useful," says Demetria Clark (www.heartofherbs.com), one of the new columnists for the site. Wilson and Watkins gathered together all the writers from the print magazine and many new ones to boast a roster of more than 50 writers, reviewers, and experts.

The site will be updated monthly with new articles, reviews, and resources for vegetarian families, as well as a soon-to-be-released database of veg parents around the world. Vegetarian Baby & Child Online Magazine aims to be the largest destination site for vegetarians raising children from babies to teens, and its well on its way!