Okay, so I don’t exactly reveal every single personal detail of my life in this episode. But I do begin a new segment for the Weird Is Great podcast entitled, “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” And in the main section I explain why I live the lifestyle that I do. So, why do I live [...]
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When you first set out to start your first vegetable garden, you don’t necessarily realize all the potential problems you may run into. The gardening how-to is pretty cut-and-dry in the books you read, but most authors don’t emphasize what mistakes could mean the difference between having a garden forever and giving up after the [...]
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This post is a part gnowflins.com Simple Lives Thursday. When you first endeavor to learn how to start a vegetable garden, excitement is the reigning emotion as you flip through your first book on gardening. Joy is the next one, sprouting up with the germination of your first seeds. Gardening burnout is the last thing [...]
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In the overall scheme of things, a plan for healthy living must include not only good care of yourself, but of the environment as well. Creating a backyard wildlife habitat can actually help enrich your life, as well as that of various other animals. Humans don’t live in a vacuum, but in conjunction with many [...]
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As you begin learning how to start a vegetable garden, you eventually begin to realize that squash vine borers are the bane of the squash gardener’s existence. In most of the U.S. they can decimate a winter squash plant in just a few days. In the Southern part of the States, they attack not only [...]
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The problem with learning how to start a vegetable garden is that most of the books make it sound worse than getting a root canal. So you begin the process – if you begin at all – with fear and trepidation, just knowing that if you make one slip all your hard work will go [...]
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Gardening reduces stress of all kinds. It calms, relaxes and relieves anxiety, which could even make it a good anger management tool. But a few things keep people from starting up a garden. One is bed preparation. I used to think that building a raised garden bed was, by default, expensive. And I am more [...]
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Growing bell peppers is an endeavor everyone who is physically able should try. Why? It is, in short, a backyard superfood. In the discussion of superfoods, we often overlook common garden vegetables in favor of exotic fruits. While such fruits are arguably super in terms of quantity of antioxidants and other nutrients, they are not [...]
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Sometimes, I just want to slap myself upside the head. How to container garden is simple. Buy a bunch of pots and a couple dozen bags of potting soil, and you’re in business, right? That’s what I thought when I transitioned from raised beds to container gardening last fall. I don’t even want to try [...]
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Healthy living is essential to living a full, happy life. But what exactly does it mean? Many people think of it in terms of right diet and enough exercise. But even that is vague and a source of great controversy. Is eating meat essential to health, or is it a sure path to cancer and [...]
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