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You gotta love summer’s abundant fruits and vegetables: Strawberries, juicy tomatoes, fresh carrots, dark leafy spinach, spicy arugula.
HOW TO: Store Fruit & Vegetables Without Plastic | Nature's Path Foods
I've had this recipe for homemade spiced chai concentrate bookmarked since January, but I finally got around to making up a batch this morning. The verdict? Delicious. It's easy to make and smells delicious, too. I only made a couple of changes to the recipe, reducing the amount of sugar and ginger to suit my tastes.
Spiced Chai Concentrate
Benefits of Soaking Nuts and Seeds
If you've started reading raw cookbooks, you've probably noticed that soaking nuts and seeds is a pretty common practice! The main reason soaking nuts and seeds is so important is because they contain enzyme inhibitors. The purpose of these enzyme inhibitors is to protect the nut or seed until it has what it needs for growing. Nature allowed the inhibitors and toxic substances to be easily removed when the conditions (enough rain and sun) were met. In nature, when it rains the nut gets enough moisture so it can germinate and produce a plant. The plant then continues to grow with the sunlight.
Bats have long been maligned by humans as a taboo or a creature to be shunned. These little furry animals that fly seemed to be half-bird, half-mammal, and looked ugly. Today they are being given their proper recognition as valuable to mankind in the ecological system. Many plants, such as bananas and the endangered saguaro cactus, are dependent upon bats for pollination because they bloom at night. Bats are also responsible for 95% of the reforestation of the tropical rain forests through their dispersal of seeds. Their immediate appeal to most people is their enormous capacity for consuming insects.
Attracting Bats to Your Garden
Image by The Purple Thistle A wide range of crops and projects are some of The Purple Thistle's most attractive features With bees, plant medicine and scientific experiments, it's obvious this isn't your standard community garden. The Purple Thistle Guerrilla Gardening Project is a branch of the outreach and activist collective The Purple Thistle.
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4 Simple Steps to Grow a Hundred Pounds of Potatoes in a Barrel
Container gardening isn't only for savvy urban gardeners and folks with limited space to grow , it can also be for folks who want to maximize their yields in a controlled environment. Not only does growing potatoes in a barrel reduce the amount of weeding and exposure to pests and fungi, you don't even have to risk shovel-damage to the tender potatoes by digging them out of the ground when they're done, just tip the container over! After extensive research to plan my own potatoes-in-a-barrel, I've boiled all of the recommendations down to 4 simple steps to a winning potato harvest.Elderberry flower syrup | Food in the Kootenays
Posted by Diana van Eyk on July 18th, 2011 This beautiful, and delicate syrup can be made from elderberry flowers which grow in the Kootenays this time of year. You pick the flowers and soak them in a litre of water with the juice and some of the zest of three lemons for three days. You then strain the water, removing the solids.
