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How to Compost and Build a Compost Heap

Making compost in your backyard is not time-consuming, unsanitary or difficult. It just takes a bit of education and preparation. Backyard composting not only improves your soil’s fertility and...

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How to Plant a Vegetable Garden

If you've ever tasted fresh-off-the-vine tomatoes or other home-grown vegetables, you'll likely never forget the flavor. Maybe you've thought about starting your own vegetable garden--in your back yard...

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Heirloom Seeds: A Connection to the Past and the Earth

Despite all the advancements in agricultural technolgy, there has been a movement toward the traditional practice of gardening with heirloom seeds. An heirloom garden eschews modern technology in...

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Why Mother Nature Loves a Vegan

Tofurkey, Tofu Scrambler and No Chicken Noodle Soup probably weren’t on Mom’s grocery list, but perhaps they should have been. These animal-free products, and many others like them, are not only...

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Clearing the Air: Best Plants for Improving Indoor Air Quality

Traffic, smog, pollution, haze... whatever the cause, the effect is lower air quality in cities across the world. While there are different ways to tackle this problem, researcher Kamal Meattle has...

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Solar Cookers: How You Can Cook With the Sun

Prior to 2005, the women of the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad, Africa, had to walk long distances through dangerous terrain to collect wood for cooking. Utilizing a traditional three-stone fire, they...

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Build a Solar Food Dehydrator—Easy, Detailed Plans

Who doesn’t love dried fruits and vegetables? There’s the extra sweetness and concentrated flavor. They can be eaten “as is” or reconstituted with water. They’re lightweight—easy to carry to class, to...

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Winter Is When All Great Vegetable Gardens Begin

Growing your own food is one of the easiest and most enjoyable ways of living a more environmental existence. Vegetable gardening allows you to forgo chemicals and use time-proven natural methods for...

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Swine Flu, Bird Flu and BSE: Three Legacies of Factory Farming

The new strain of bird flu now spreading in China has raised renewed concerns about Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) AKA factory farms. According to the World Health Organization (WHO),...

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Sprouting at Home: Always Fresh, Always Local

Winter in the northern hemisphere can be rough if, like me, you love to eat salad twice a day—sometimes even for breakfast. While there are lots of live salad-type greens for sale at my local co-op and...

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