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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHeirloom 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleClearing 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...
View ArticleSolar 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...
View ArticleBuild 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...
View ArticleWinter 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...
View ArticleSwine 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),...
View ArticleSprouting 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...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....