Healthier you, greener planet
From the category archives:
As I imply in this post, my husband and I will be on what is commonly termed a “hobby farm” in a few short years. Our plan is to be off-grid and have a high level of self-reliance with our physical nourishment. In plain English, we hope to be able to raise most of our [...]
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Lately, I have been much interested in learning how to get rid of rats. The reason is that several weeks ago, my low-hanging almost-ripe tomatoes and bell peppers began disappearing before I could harvest them. One day, I’d go out and find half of the fruit eaten; the next day, the thing would be eaten [...]
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Most Americans’ idea of a dream home is something like a large mini-mansion with six bedrooms, six full baths and four living areas. Not mine. I want to live in an earthship. An earthship is made of rammed earth tires (tires filled with packed dirt) with solar panels on the south side of the house. [...]
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Why dehydrate your food? Is it the best method of food preservation, or is food dehydration just more convenient? I began to ask myself these questions a couple of years ago when I got into eating raw food. I had been happily using my Excalibur 5 Tray Food Dehydrator for a few months when someone [...]
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On Earth Day, I showed you what my square foot garden looked like at the time. Since then, it’s grown just a little bit. And give us some food in the process! The good news is, we’re not even close to being done with harvest time! Check out the video and see why square foot [...]
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Those of us who are getting back to living closer to the earth, back to a simpler life, throw around the term “self-sufficiency” liberally. But what exactly does that mean? The term implies that you are independent from everyone and do everything yourself. You go out into the deep woods, chop down trees and build [...]
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To the anti-environmentalist, or anti-”green”, crowd, any kind of environmentalism seems extreme. The main reason being that they don’t want anyone to step on their greedy materialistic toes. Enough about that for the moment. I strongly believe in creation stewardship. I believe that although technology can be a good thing, we’ve taken it too far [...]
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To celebrate Earth Day, 2010, I thought I’d share a video with you of my springtime square foot garden. A few notes: The self-watering planter is homemade using a Rubbermaid tub. You can google “homemade self-watering planter” and find instructions. The cages my husband made to keep out the cabbage moths are working. For you [...]
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I have written about the joys and glories of raised bed gardening, particularly Mel Bartholomew’s square foot gardening method. It comes with a lot of benefits, such as requiring less weeding and having easier- to-drain soil then beds existing on the ground, in the native soil. But a couple weeks ago, I was looking up [...]
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Organic gardening – or any kind of gardening, for that matter – does not come without its challenges. If you’re thinking about starting an organic garden, here are seven tips that, if followed, will save you a lot of headaches, time, and sore muscles. 1. Use raised bed or container gardening. Raised beds are a [...]
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