As snow falls this week, you should know that most conventional deicers are harmful to pets, kids, cars and local wildlife and rivers. Here are some safer eco...
Gardening & Homesteading
Whether you tend a little patch of tomatoes, or are striving to produce most of the food for your family, here you’ll find articles about organic gardening, organic pest control, food preservation, permaculture, homesteading, and more.
Your tomato plants are tall and green; you’ve taken the time to carefully stake or cage them to support their growth. Right now they are loaded with tons...
Can you still grow some of your own food if your yard has shady spots? The answer is YES! Here is a list of 28 vegetables that grow in partial shade.
Today, seeds are bred in only one of three very different ways: 1) in an open pollinated environment, 2) through a hybrid cross, and 3) through genetic...
Monsanto is a company no gardener should want to support, even accidentally. Here is where to buy non GMO seeds, and why it is so important.
Most Americans think that miles of machine-planted row crops and crowded feedlots are required to feed everyone—that without large-scale, industrial...
If you have been seeing small flies or gnats in your kitchen, they’re probably fruit flies. In the high heat of summer, with a bounty of fresh summer...
Just as the weather starts to warm up for the summer, fungi, blights and other plant diseases can take hold in your garden and quickly wipe out your crops...
Fungus gnats and damping-off can stymie even the most seasoned gardeners and seriously affect the success of growing seedlings. But the solution to these...
Kohlrabi looks like an organic, green space alien, with a taste like fresh, crunchy broccoli stems, with a hint of radish. The name kohlrabi comes from the...
Autumn is an optimal time to plant trees. As mundane as it may seem compared to solar panels and hybrid cars, planting trees is one of THE most powerful and...
The technology we need to thrive in a future without petroleum is not waiting to be discovered in some laboratory somewhere, it is right here working in...
