2nd April 2012 By Jeani-Rose Atchison Guest Writer for Wake Up World Conventionally grown avocado trees are treated with growth inhibitors and insecticides. Root rot is a common...
Category - Home & Garden
Wake Up World articles for the home and garden enthusiast, including DIY, gardening and self sufficiency topics.
Food Storage Part III: Food Grade Buckets, Lids and Gamma Seals
30th March 2012 By Gaye Levy Guest writer for Wake Up World. Are your ready for our next lesson in long term food storage? The topic today is buckets, lids and gamma seals. Say what...
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...
Recipe: Pecan Patties
21st March 2012 By Jeani-Rose Atchison Guest Writer for Wake Up World Pecans, I love them. Whether in a pie, salad or in this case a main meal, they are flavourful and satisfying. And as with...
Food Storage Part II: Unraveling the Mystique of Mylar Bags
17th March 2012 By Gaye Levy Guest writer for Wake Up World. Part 1 can be read here Today I would like to help unravel the mystique of the Mylar bag. As with the ubiquitous oxygen absorber...
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...
Recipe: Vegie Sausage Rolls
8th March 2012 By Jeani-Rose Atchison Guest Writer for Wake Up World Savoury yeast is high in vitamins, protein, fiber, and minerals. It is a good source of B-complex vitamins because it includes...
Food Storage Part 1 – A Primer on Oxygen Absorbers
11th March 2012 By Gaye Levy Guest writer for Wake Up World Oxygen absorbers. You have heard about them and if you have done even the most basic research into long term food storage, you know that...
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...
Recipe: Raw Vegan Cheese Cake
8th March 2012 By Jeani-Rose Atchison Guest Writer for Wake Up World The following recipe is nutritionally dense, very rich and satisfying. Coconut oil is one of the ingredients used which has very...
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...