Healthy Self Reliance
Why grow garlic? My question is why not grow garlic. Garlic grows so very easily, it imparts a flavor to food I just cannot do without. In the garden it takes up very little space and demands nothing. Even if you only grow a small garden, you can raise enough to be self-sufficient in garlic …
We’ve been gone… gardening!Hi gardening readers, I know it has been a while! the garden has taken on a new life this year and we have added a full blown herb farm to the mix. We’ve been so busy gardening we haven’t had time for posting. But I got an email from the folks at …
Subsidized Fracking Hits Colorado This is an interesting article documenting the connections between tax subsidies, oil and gas fracking, and harms to the public health. And this article indicates that this kind of extreme oil production is NOT a free market activity, but is possible/profitable only because of subsidies. Repeat: this kind of extreme energy …
Yesterday, Missouri passed by a .03% margin an undemocratic constitutional amendment cynically called “right to farm.” Big Ag is pushing this in Oklahoma. This is for the benefit of multinational meat companies (Tyson) and chemical companies (Monsanto). They want it to be impossible for local citizens to exercise any control over these global corporations. Practices …
Two Easy-Care Perennials That Need Periodic Dividing in August This year’s hot and often humid summer weather doesn’t seem like the best time to garden… unless gardeners love irises or daylilies. In early to mid-August, both long-time perennial favorites are in a kind of dormant period. So, that’s when gardeners are most likely to succeed …
The future of the nations will depend on the manner of how they feed themselves, wrote the French epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. Almost 200 years later, how nations feed themselves has gotten a lot more complicated. That’s particularly true in the US, where food insecurity coexists with an obesity crisis, where fast food …
Organic gardeners have known it for generations. But scientists have now proved it. Black pepper, used as a pesticide, discourage insect pests from laying eggs on leaves and pose lower risk to humans and the environment than other pesticides, according to a University of Ottawa researcher. Biologist Ian Scott and his research team have tested …
I created this page of links for all things “butterfly”!! It is to help you moms (and us grandmas) find crafts and learning activities for children that like butterflies… and I haven’t met one yet. I hope you find it useful in your fun filled teaching moments with the beautiful children in your lives. Rachel …
As gardeners, what is happening with the weather is very important to us, because it can affect the plants we grow. If we know that bad weather is expected – a frost or high winds for example, we can take steps to protect some of our more tender plants. It is easy to make a …
Make a Mini Greenhouse As gardeners, what is happening with the weather is very important to us, because it can affect the plants we grow. If we know that bad weather is expected – a frost or high winds for example, we can take steps to protect some of our more tender plants. It is …