DIY Succulent Pallet Table. Max with the new Succulent Table.
Can you believe that our latest DIY project was once just a couple of junky pallets and some scrappy table legs? Crazy…if I didn’t have photos, I wouldn’t believe it myself. Not too long ago, we whipped out a coffee table sized succulent table out of an old shipping crate. Now we scaled it up. The pallets. First bit of advice, deconstructing pallets are a big pain unless you have the right tools…and our hammer and wall scrapper wasn’t quite doing the trick. Couple good planks. Love the scares of time left on these chunks of pallet wood. Attaching the legs. After pulling apart two pallets, we used the 2 x 4 sized boards to make a rectangular frame to attached the appropriated table legs. Dry run for fittings. Like TV magic (and 2 days later), the table was more or less put together. Inicio : Arte Sostenible. Herbal Tea - Discover 10 Healing Herbs Used in Teas on WomansDay.
Far from just a mundane alternative to caffeinated brews, herbal teas (or tisane), like the popular jasmine or chamomile, each offer unique health benefits.
Often made from a blend of various natural ingredients, such as dried leaves, seeds, grasses, barks and flowers, these herbal infusions are steeped in powerful curative properties that range from an ability to aid indigestion to promoting relaxation. We took a look inside your favorite teabags to determine which popular herbs are effective in treating common health ailments. Next time you’re in the tea aisle, keep these helpful tips in tow so you can make a knowledgeable selection. ChamomileChamomile is a flower long loved for its soothing, calming and sleep-inducing qualities. The petals of the plant are the active ingredient—and are most often combined with other soothing herbs like valerian and hops to create the blends meant to lull you into relaxation, such as Peach-Chamomile or Celestial Seasonings’ Sleepytime. WATERLIFE - NFB. AilmentsMs - What Grandma Knew - Herbal Remedies for Common Problems&.
The Victory Garden . Home. Industrial Scars: The Art of Environmental Pollution - Jerry James Stone -... A photographer simultaneously captures the beauty and horror of human pollution, from thick oil spills to dirty coal mining If there's a silver lining to be found amongst all the wear and tear humans put on our planet, it could very well be found in the photography of J Henry Fair.
His photographs of oil spills, industrial pollution and coal mining are so eye-catching they almost extenuate the industrial scars you are witnessing -- almost. While media coverage of such degradation, like the Gulf oil spill, has been confined to what can best be described as disaster porn, Fair's work -- both artistic and cerebral -- could easily be mistaken for Abstract Expressionism. The above photograph, for example, seems to actually defy gravity as green and purple tributaries scratch at the cotton-candy-like nebula bearing down on it from above. The whole vascular rainbow appears to be alive, or just the product of a really bad acid trip. How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden. Good news and bad news.
I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy. That’s the bad news. But I know I promised a tutorial today, so I took photos and have kept my word to share how to make the pallet garden. Know Your Travel Footprint. Breathingearth - CO2, birth &death rates by country, simulated real-time. DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf from fekids.com. Half-Baked Idea?: Legalizing Marijuana Will Help the Environment: Scientific... Dear EarthTalk: I heard someone say that legalizing pot—as Californians considered doing last year—would benefit the environment.
How would that be? —William T., Portland, Ore. It is well known that legalizing pot could have great economic benefits in California and elsewhere by allowing the government to tax it (like it now does on liquor and cigarettes), by ending expensive and ongoing operations to eradicate it, and by keeping millions of otherwise innocent and non-violent marijuana offenders out of already overburdened federal and state prisons. But what you might not know is that legalizing pot could also pay environmental dividends as well. Nikki Gloudeman, a senior fellow at Mother Jones magazine, reports on the change.org website that the current system of growing pot—surreptitious growers illegally colonizing remote forest lands and moving pesticides, waste and irrigation tubes into otherwise pristine ecosystems—is nothing short of a toxic scourge.
Vegetable Spacing Guide&. Herbalist Natural Healing Remedies: How to Make Home-Made... The fresh ginger root in the produce section of the stores is a lot of product to use!
My regular recipes don't require it as an ingredient too often at all, and I had bought some to start adding to my stir fry. I do not cook stir fry often enough, and I am not keen on having the ginger sitting around for a long time to waste away slowly. When I was doing my herbalist courses at the healing college, they drilled it and drilled it into us that anything that could be used as medicine was especially precious and to get everything we could possibly get out of it.
Medicinally, ginger is used as an anti-inflammatory. Commonly it is taken to reduce symptoms of indigestion, nausea & vomiting, and for pain relief from arthritis and damaged cartilage. Medicinal Herb Vaults.