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This Sensual Hippie Oil Can Improve Your Mood and Appearance
Essential Oils are a great way to transition your family away from big pharma and the Medical Industrial Complex. Today we are going to spotlight
DIY Fire Powered Hot Tub
Winter is here folks! Which means ’tis the season for wrapping up in blankets or cuddling by the fireplace with a significant other! One man has
Don’t Cover Your Beauty – Stop Wearing Make Up
How To Have Glowing Natural Skin Without Make Up Eat a plant based diet (cut the diary!) Get lots of sunshine Exercise and detox that
20 Tastiest Perennial Plants Anyone Can Grow Right Now
With the recent rise in gardening thanks to the pandemic, perennial plants are finally getting some love and attention. I’ve personally seen my friends embarking
TED Talk: Food Companies are Lying to You
In this Ted Talk, Tony Farmer exposes exposes how food companies routinely lie to consumers in order to protect profits at the expense of our health.
Let Go and Let Learn – One Parent’s Reminder to Let Her Children Slice the Strawberries
Resistance When did I become such an uptight parent? Yesterday I caught myself shooing my children out of the kitchen while I was trying to
Florida Lifts Ban on Front-Yard Vegetable Farming!
Florida has finally passed a bill that trumps all the bans on front yard gardens. Inspired by a couple in Miami Shores who were forced
12 Reasons Eating With Your Hands Will Improve Your Life
Should you Eat with Your Hands? If you ask most people, eating with your hands is a savage thing to do. I’ve even referred to
The Fastest and Easiest Fruit To Grow
From Marjory Wildcraft’s GrowYourOwnGroceries.org Blackberries will produce within the first year. The fruit is great fresh eating, in jams, or jellies, and makes fabulous, fabulous
Foods to Grow Underground in a Walipini During Fall & Rest of the Year!
The word Walipini, derived from the Aymaran language and an indigenous Bolivian tribe, is translated as “a place of warmth” and is an earth sheltered
DIY Dried Orange Garland – Unique Holiday Decoration
This beautiful and simple DIY dried orange garland is the perfect accent for any home or business during the holidays. I stumbled upon these gorgeous
Lifelong Friends Build their Own Tiny-Home Community
Real, authentic adult friendships are so precious, and sadly, pretty uncommon these days too. Modern society is set up for mobility that has to do with
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BioIntensive Gardening – How to Double Dig, Make Compost, & Companion Plant
Biointensive gardening is an organic method designed to creative highly productive gardens with long term sustainability at its core. What is so great about this
IT’S ALIVE! Living No-Turn Compost: BioChar
Maybe you wanted to start composting this Earth Day, but you’ve heard it’s tricky to get right. I understand–nobody wants a stinky mess out back
The Tropical Fruit Tree Americans Forgot: The Pawpaw Tree
What if I told you that North America has an easy-to-grow native tropical fruit tree that you’ve never even heard of? The Pawpaw is our
Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets of Companion Planting + Popular Planting Combinations
Did you know that tomatoes hate cucumbers? Consider companion planting. While they might taste great together in a salad, tomato plants dislike growing in close
How To Start a Kitchen Scrap Garden
How to Regrow Kitchen Scraps Feel like you never really get your money’s worth of lettuce or celery at the store? Why not grow another
This is Why Your Compost Stinks
You started out with good intentions–wanting to create richer soil for your garden and reduce your waste. Maybe you even bought the pretty compost crock