Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Personal Story
Written by: Dr. Frannie Koe, MD Edited by: Breanne Hughes The blog today is a little more personal. I haven’t quite felt like myself for a few weeks, and it is sometimes a challenge to realize what is going on and to figure out how to improve things! Lately, I have...
Doctor Koe’s Medicine Blog
Chickweed Pesto
Written and edited by: Breanne Hughes Recently, I was weeding my fall-planted garlic bed, and it was full of chickweed. Chickweed is really easy to identify (by the row of small hairs on the stem growing in alternating directions, white star shaped blossoms...
Keto Mayo
Written by: Dr. Frannie Koe, MD Edited by: Breanne Hughes Condiments can include but not be limited to: mayo, salad dressings, BBQ sauce (although I had a really hard time making my keto sauce taste good!), veggie dips, meat dips such as sour cream, yogurt...
Keto Options for Southern Favorites!
Although I’m not originally a Southerner, I’ve lived in the South for a very long time, and I know how important traditional comfort foods are to Southern cuisine. Lots of patients who come to my clinic struggle to find acceptable and nutritious substitutions for...
Dr. Frances Koe, MD, MPH
Dr. Frances Koe, MD, MPH, is our fearless leader and the driving force behind Agroshare. She is also the physician and owner of Wills Valley Family Medicine and Valley Care DPC. Dr. Frances Koe began her educational pursuits right out of high school, but at the time,...
Tim Martin
Tim Martin studied Fine Arts at the University of North Alabama in Florence, and his focus was on sculpture. He grew up in a family business of furniture makers and has been around wood and machinery since he was preschool age. He loved the wood shop, being around the...
Don Redman – Webmaster
Don Redman is the Webmaster behind the Agroshare website. Born and raised in the South, he has spent most of his adult life living and working in Alabama. Don is currently based in Tuscaloosa, AL, but frequently travels on his motorcycle, living and working on the...
BreeAnna Lucas, BSN, RN
BreeAnna Lucas is an Alabama native, born in Crossville, and currently living in Guntersville, AL. As a graduate of Auburn University at Montgomery School of Nursing, she worked as a nurse in a medical-surgery unit for 5 years. A mother of two, BreeAnna has a son who...
Dr. Sarita Cox, ND, L.Ac.
Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Cox, ND, L.Ac., has practiced integrative medicine in both Alabama and Mississippi for the past 20 years. Some of Dr. Cox’s colleagues and beloveds call her “Sarita,” a name given to her by her first meditation teacher, and she believes names have...
Breanne Hughes, BA
Breanne Hughes originally hails from Albuquerque, NM, but after years of travel, both internationally and across the US, she’s lived just outside Fort Payne, AL for almost 10 years. Breanne received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish, Portuguese and International...
Cesar Lopez, AAS
Cesar Lopez lives and works in Collinsville, AL and is a graduate of Northeast Alabama Community College. He has an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science with a focus on computer science. He has also taken continuing education courses in WordPress. While attending...
Dana Siniard, FNP-BC, LBSW
Dana Siniard, FNP-BC, LBSW, was born and raised in North Mississippi. She graduated from The University of Mississippi in 1998 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work. She moved to Northeast Alabama in 1999. Dana realized she was passionate about the medical aspect of...
Summer Gilreath, AAS
Summer Gilreath is the clinic Lab Manager, and has been with Wills Valley Family Medicine since 2011. Summer grew up in the Sand Mountain area of Northeast Alabama. She first came to the clinic as a student and did her internship with Dr. Koe. Summer completed her...
Claudia Moreno, Office Manager
Claudia Moreno is the Office Manager for Wills Valley Family Medicine. She has been an important part of Dr. Koe’s clinic staff since 2008! Claudia lives in Collinsville, AL with her two beautiful children, and has lived here since arriving in the US when she was 11...
What does it mean to have purpose, and why do we need it?
What does it mean to have purpose, and why do we need it? I can’t believe more than a year has gone by since I have been able to blog! It was a crazy year, to say the least! In the last year and a half, I have seen so many new things. I have thought so many thoughts,...
Medicine
I have my blogs set up as three different blogs. I will not blog on each every day! But some blog posts will be about food, some about farming and some about medicine. I hope to blog in each category weekly. One may not be interested in farming and only food so you can go to the food blog and find what you are looking for in that category about food! I am hoping this speeds up the process when you try to find something you are interested in and you want to follow.
I have dedicated my life to studying how food affects our bodies. So the food blog is very important to me. Our whole page is really about food in all of its forms including how to grow it and how it affects our health! My goal is to stay as up to date as possible on each topic. I also encourage everyone to check out all three categories as I hope to pull you into all the topics!
If there are any topics you want me to comment on or study please fill out the contact information and we will try hard to answer your request. If we can’t we will let you know as well. Once again, thanks so much for visiting our page and let us know what you think is helpful or what is not!!