2nd May 2012 By Michelle Schoffro Cook – care2.com Indoor air quality has become a real problem. Indoor air often contains formaldehyde from carpets and adhesives...
Category - Gardening
The Medicinal Properties of Dandelion
By Jordan & Kyla Miller Contributing Writers for Wake Up World While many people view the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) as a pesky weed, many herbalists consider it to be a...
Five Easy to Grow Mosquito Repelling Plants
By eartheasy.com As the outdoor season approaches, many homeowners and outdoor enthusiasts look for ways to control mosquitoes. With all the publicity about the West Nile virus, mosquito...
Seattle Creating Massive Edible Forest Filled with Free Food
By Jill Ettinger – organicauthority.com Taking the urban garden to the next level, Seattle, Washington has officially broken ground on a dedicated seven acre area of city land set...
Ten Herbs for Indoor Growing
By organicgardening.com A windowsill kitchen garden: Grow great-tasting herbs indoors. You can grow herbs indoors this winter and add that just-picked taste to your meals, even when snow...
Nine Food Cures You Can Grow at Home
By organicgardening.com Put your green thumb to work growing a first-aid kit that will keep you healthy all summer. Why burn a quarter-tank of gas running out to the drug store for...
Growing for Compost
By Beth Hanson – organicgardening.com These nutrient-laden crops are food for the compost pile. Cultivating crops specifically for composting is a major tenet of intensive gardening...
The New Natural Order of Landscaping: Permaculture
5th March 2012 By Kathleen Blakeskee Guest Writer for Wake Up World The term permaculture hasn’t been around long: only since the 1970’s, but at its basis is a way of life that was the...
Gardens Thrive on Top of City Busses
By urbangardensweb.com Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s...
30 Year Study: Organic Farming Outperforms Conventional, Chemical Farming
By friendseat.com Based on a 30-year side-by-side trial [See full report pdf] of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute, organic farming...
Four Methods for Off the Grid Food Production
By – Activist Post For most of us producing all of our own food is just a fantasy. It evokes visions of multiple acres of fertile land, long work days, and expensive machinery. However...
10 Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient & 10 Ways to Get There
By Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green Via Activist Post We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at large has undergone a...