Wash Your Organic Produce. No, Really.
Always wash your food, gross stuff happens in our food supply chain: According to Sonya Lunder, a...
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Category: Organic Living
Are There Toxins in Your Compost?
Well, this is a bit scary when you consider the compost is going into organic gardens… As thousands of cities have begun composting yard waste and hundreds more begin collecting food scraps on a large scale, new questions are...
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Composting and Other Ways to Reducing Food Waste
How much food do you think your family throws away each year? According to the US Environmental...
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Organic Snail and Slug Pest Control
There are many ways of dealing effectively with garden pest snail and slug problems. Encourage...
Read MoreCompost – Carbon-to-Nitrogen Ratios
A couple of months ago I posted about Compost-What’s In and What’s Out. However, it’s not enough that you throw your organics, food and yard waste into your compost bin (although it’s a good start!) You must also be aware...
Read MoreOrganic Weed Killer Formula
HOW ORGANIC WEED KILLER FORMULA WORKS Most organic weed killer formulas are fundamentally acids. Weak solutions of sulfuric acid, nitric acid, pelargonic acid (from grapes, apples and carrots as found in the commercial weed...
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Basic Smoked Beef Jerky
I love beef jerky, but it can get quite expensive. If your only experience with this lovely...
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Sad and Moldy Pumpkins
So, it turns out that when you pick an already ripe pumpkin from your garden, carve it up and find...
Read MoreWhat do you do with a Pecking Chicken?
Last week, I found out one of my chickens, Katie, is a pecker. She bullies my other little chicks, and in one case stripped off the back feathers of Isabella (another little chick). Can chickens be evil? This one is probably...
Read MoreMinimizing pesticides and fertilizers
Pesticides and fertilizers can cause significant harm to public health and the environment. Most pesticides contain potentially toxic chemicals that can cause negative health effects such as cancer and neurological and...
Read MorePermaculture for Sustainable Living and Self Sufficiency
Permaculture is a practical, positive approach to designing systems for environment and lifestyle sustainability that has at its core a fundamental set of values or ethics. While Permaculture design can be applied to an infinite...
Read MoreThe Economies of Keeping Chickens
When I first decided to build a chicken coop, there were 2 reasons. The first was that my daughter wanted chickens. The second was that the idea of fresh eggs was appealing and I thought it would be economical. A recent article...
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