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Chasing 70 Degree Weather, The Ultimate Full Time Traveler’s Year
If 70 degree weather sounds like the magical temperature then this year long route is for you! If you can’t stand the cold and hate
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
How to Forage for Edible Mushrooms as a Beginner
Nowadays, not many folks forage for food anymore–and especially not mushrooms. There’s a lot of mushrooms out there that are poisonous, after all! For many
Crypto on Tour: Family of Four to Travel the Country in Bitcoin.com Bus Spending Only Bitcoin, Ether, Dash
The Bitcoin.com Bus is a tiny home on wheels that doubles as an advocacy tool for crypto currency and decentralized lifestyles. The Blush Family picked up
Classy Solar: New Roofing Tiles Have Built in Solar Technology
Solar Roof Talk about innovation in green technology! This Kenyan solar company, Strauss Energy, has developed a roofing tile that contains solar panels built within
Grow Hemp, Save the Bees!
Grow Hemp for a Better Environment As if we needed another reason to start promoting the growing of hemp, a new study shows that expanding
From Academics to Relationships – Unschooling As A Paradigm Shift
This article is part 1 of a longer series, called Does Unschooling Have Natural Limits? Please subscribe to get future installments. Awareness of others’ needs
Homemade Red Wine in Five Simple Steps
Most wine making guides really over-think the wine making process. They tell you to buy all kinds of equipment and additives that you don’t really
The 13 Best Chicken Breeds for Cold Climates
This article was originally published on the Grow Network. There are four articles in this series on different strategies for cold-weather chicken care. Below, we
VIDEO: How to Build a Log Cabin with Simple Tools for Cheap!
If you have a forested scrap of land somewhere (or you know someone who does), this video may inspire you to build a log cabin
10 Mocktails for Health and Wellness
About a year ago, I decided to give up alcohol. I wasn’t a big drinker since becoming a mother, but I felt like the
3 Movies That REALLY Make You Think About Freedom & Responsibility
Sometimes lessons are best taught via storytelling. As a freethinker, however–it can be pretty tough to find any worthwhile stories to listen to. Reality TV doesn’t
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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