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10 New Ways to Cook Quinoa. 7 Essential Oils to Reclaim Your Sinuses (and Sanity!) During Allergy Season. Lesson Plan - Self-Sufficiency and the Community. Worldwatch Institute. Thinking Beyond the Status Quo. National debt = ZERO: Austerity unnecessary. « Earthlinggb's Blog. The urban guide to being self sufficient'ish. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. 12 Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking. Sustainable table - Eat seasonal - Shop Sustainable.

Four ways to creatively grow your own fruits and vegetables using principles of permaculture. (NaturalNews) Modern industrial agriculture is a disastrous failure, as it defies practically every natural law related to food cultivation, ecological and environmental protection and stewardship, and human nutrition.

Four ways to creatively grow your own fruits and vegetables using principles of permaculture

But there is a new agricultural revolution sweeping the land that is changing the way humans eat and grow food, and its methods are derived from the concepts found in permaculture. Permaculture is basically an all-encompassing term used to identify the strategic and creative ways through which human structures and agricultural systems are unified into harmonious, sustainable entities. As opposed to factory farming systems, which rely heavily on chemical and fertilizer inputs and destroy the environment and human health in the process, permaculture farming systems take advantage of the many unique ways that natural systems work together to complement one another and sustain life.

Update: Upside-Down Tomato. I posted earlier about my upside-down tomato experiment.

Update: Upside-Down Tomato

The benefits of raw honey. (NaturalNews) When we look at the word "raw", we associated it with the preservation of important vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Just as raw vegetables are preferable because of their nutritional content, the same is true of honey. Raw honey is honey that has not been heated, pasteurized or processed in any way. The differences between raw and pasteurized honey are substantial.

Raw honey is an alkaline-forming food that contains natural vitamins, enzymes, powerful antioxidants and other important natural nutrients. The Rhubarb Compendium. Rhubarb is a cool season, perennial plant that is very winter hardy and resistant to drought.

The Rhubarb Compendium

Its crop is produced from crowns consisting of fleshy rhizomes and buds. Following a season of growth the rhubarb crown becomes dormant and temperatures below 40 °F / 5 °C are required to stimulate bud break and subsequent growth. The first shoots to appear in the spring are edible petioles and leaves. These emerge sequentially as long as temperatures remain cool (below 90 °F / 32 °C). Awakening Spirits - A Call To All LIghtworkers. {*style:<b>A Call to All Lightworkers to Action </b>*} {*style:<b> </b>*} {*style:<b>message channeled through.

Inside Urban Green. Urban Agriculture: A Guide to Container Gardens. A Guide to Container Gardens With inexpensive containers and suitable soil mix,you can create an urban garden virtually anywhere - on roof tops,vacant city lots, borwn fields, and unused portion of parking lots Job S.

Urban Agriculture: A Guide to Container Gardens

Ebenezer, Ph.D.President, Technology for the Poor, 877 PELHAM COURT, WESTERVILLE, OHIO - 43081technologyforthepoor@yahoo.com. Green Roof Growers. Sweet Pure Honey Mission. 10 Common Weeds That Can Heal You. Check out our posts on food storage and other topics by clicking on the categories tab to the right. How to Make Aspirin From Bark.

Simple Daily Recipes. Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef - Spices. Tropic Smoothie Recipe - Simple Daily Recipes. Tropic smoothies are awesome for breakfast, snack time, and dessert. I shared this recipe with a friend and they said it would be good with a splash of rum. I haven't tried their suggestion. If you try it, let me know what you think. Makes about 5 servings 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes 3 cold, medium bananas 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks 1 cup frozen mango chunks 2 1/2 cup unsweetened non-dairy milk (soy, almond, coconut, etc.) Blend on high speed for at least 20 seconds until completely smooth. Cultures for Health: Yogurt Starter, Sourdough Starter, Kombucha, Kefir Grains, Cheese Making and more.

One of these is not like the others. - Simple Daily Recipes. I just wanted you to see the differences in the yolks from chickens that eat grains, mixed grain & grass & insects, and chickens that only feed on grass and insects. Their flavors are as distinctive as the colors indicate. The bottom yolks shown are FAR BETTER than the flavorless yolk at top. And that's all I've got to say about that. Have you ever considered having chickens? The Forgotten Slaves: Whites in Servitude in Early America and Industrial Britain. “When I was a boy, ‘recalled Waters McIntosh, who had been a slave in Sumter, South Carolina, ‘we used to sing, ‘Rather be a nigger than a poor White Man,’ Even in slavery we used to sing that.’

The Forgotten Slaves: Whites in Servitude in Early America and Industrial Britain

Mr. McIntosh’s remarks reveal…that the poor whites of the South ranked below blacks in social standing…slaves felt unbridled contempt for lower‑class whites…Frederick Douglas opened his famous Life and Times with an account of Talbot County, Maryland, which he said housed a ‘White population of the lowest order… Click to enlarge Throughout the South the slaves of many of the larger planters lived in a society of blacks and well‑to‑do Whites and were encouraged to view even respectable laboring Whites with disdain…Ella Kelly, who had been a slave in South Carolina…You know, boss, dese days dere is three kind of people. Nourishing Traditional Cooking Classes Start April 22 Hills Inn Callicoon Center « Slow Food Upper Delaware River Valley. Yellow Pea Protein & Kidney Health. For the one out of every three adults in the US with hypertension, medication is almost a given.

Yellow Pea Protein & Kidney Health

There's an amazing array of possible medications to keep blood pressure under control -- diuretics, ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, calcium channel blockers and so on. Unfortunately, though these various drugs do a reasonable job of pushing down blood pressure readings, they also can cause serious complications and come replete with a list of side effects ranging from fatigue, insomnia, and depression to impotence, gout, diabetic episodes, fatal liver problems, heart disease (ironically), and permanent kidney damage.

New research out of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, has uncovered a surprising natural treatment that may help control hypertension without incurring the high cost or potential danger of drugs. Study director Rotimi Aluko said, "In people with high blood pressure, our protein could potentially delay or prevent the onset of kidney damage. VRM: Alternative Cancer Cures That Work & Your Government Still Can’t Ban them From Use! « Vaccine Resistance Movement. A hundred years ago less than 1 in 1000 people died of cancer.

VRM: Alternative Cancer Cures That Work & Your Government Still Can’t Ban them From Use! « Vaccine Resistance Movement

According to the World Health Organization ‘Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2008. Deaths from cancer worldwide are projected to continue to rise to over 11 million in 2030.’ “If I am able to help only one cancer sufferer to escape the excruciating and inescapable pain of death caused through treatment by ‘orthodox methods,’ I have done something worthwhile.” Colorado Confluence. ECODESIGN: The Ultimate Source Book. Green Eco-Machine. Dome Diva's Blog.