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Eco-Tip Tuesday: Keep It Simple, Silly

December 8, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

When the continuous operation of a system relies on a long and complex chain of crucial suppliers and resources, all running smoothly, that’s pretty much a textbook example of an unsustainable system. Put another way, the systems we take for granted to deliver everything from plasma-screen TV sets to store-bought apple pie are more vulnerable [...]

Dandelion: Much More than a Lawn Menace

October 7, 2009 Factory-Free Food

Many wild plants and “weeds” are some of the most nutrient-dense greens you can eat. It is only in the past 100 or so years, as our food system became more and more industrialized, that wild superfoods dropped out of our diet. So I try to include them in mine when I can.
This past spring [...]

Arugula-Ready Recipes

September 29, 2009 Garden & Farm

The cool weather greens are just starting to come ready for harvest here, and this week both my garden and my CSA box have plenty of arugula with which to make salads and other delights.
Arugula is a very nutritious, leafy green vegetable with an unusual spicy flavor. Arugula is high in vitamins A, C and [...]

You Can Fix All the World’s Problems in a Garden

September 17, 2009 Eco-Friendly Living

This extremely inspiring, 5-minute video demonstrates how Permaculture gardening practices can be used to desalinate soils just a mile away from the Dead Sea in the Jordanian desert—restoring them to life and food productivity without the use of chemical fertilizers, heavy irrigation or tilling.
If we can heal the land and bring life back to a [...]

Raw Eggplant Ravioli

August 26, 2009 Garden & Farm

Eggplants are ready for harvest in the garden, and they are making their appearance in my CSA box too. Eggplants are beautiful, relatively easy vegetables to grow and delicious, diversely nutritious vegetables to eat.

Speed Pickles

August 4, 2009 Factory-Free Food

The cucumbers are ripe in the Small Footprint garden, and with the amount in my garden and my CSA box, it seemed like a good time to make pickles. And with so many things ripe in the garden right now, once I got started, I caught a “pickle bug” and just couldn’t stop.
Here are four [...]

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