July 30th, 2007 at 09:28pm
Under Green Housekeeping
Attack that yucky junk stuck in your refrigerator and on your stove top without attacking the environment.
The potatoes boil over. The juice spills. Life gets busy and you forget to clean up on the spot. A week later, you realize that there is yucky junk baked all around the stove top burners or congealed on the refrigerator shelves. TV would tell you to get out an aerosol can or a bottle of corrosive chemicals.
Don’t do it!
Instead, reach for the salt. (more…)
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July 28th, 2007 at 11:31pm
Under Green Body
Does Your Hair Look Blah?
Tired Of Dull, Lifeless Tresses?
Chances are, it’s that fancy hair conditioner that you are spending $14 a bottle for that has left your hair looking like Spanish moss rather than your crowning glory. Read the label of your current brand. Do you even know what most of the things are on that scary long list? I’m betting you don’t. Do you really want to pour unknown substances onto your scalp which is covered with pores that absorb everything that touches them? Of course not. That is, after all, the part of your skin that covers and protects your brain…a rather important organ!
The Truth Is…
The ingredients in your current hair conditioner may not only be not so great for your hair, they may be actual toxic poison. Here’s a short list of the bad guys, found in countless popular hair conditioners: (more…)
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July 28th, 2007 at 09:38pm
Under Organic Gardening
Organic tomatoes that are fresh from the vine are some of the most delicious crops you can grow in your home garden.
With all of the varieties of tomatoes - from beefsteak to cherry to the wide assortment of heirloom tomatoes - there are many options to consider when growing these vegetables in your organic garden. This is one crop that you can grow throughout the summer and into fall, and the difference between your own and tomatoes commerically grown in a greenhouse is easy to taste.
You can, in fact, grow your own tomatoes in a small greenhouse if you have one. Grown correctly in this environment, your tomato production can begin early in the season and extend well past the time when tomatoes are normally available to grow outside. The problem with most commerically-grown, conventional tomatoes is that they are picked when still green and are ripened in an artifical manner. If you can grow your own tomatoes in a greenhouse to enjoy when they are fully ripe, then by all means do so. But here, we’re going to focus on the average home gardener, growing tomatoes outside in summer during the height of the tomato growing season. First, some basic facts about caring for this favorite vegetable. (more…)
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July 28th, 2007 at 08:40pm
Under Organic Gardening
Make your organic garden sustainable by using good crop rotation.
“In a word, crop rotation means variety, and variety gives stability to biological systems.” - Eliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower
One of the most shortsighted things that modern agriculture has done to our landscape is the development of the monoculture crop. For thousands of years of agriculture practices among human civilization, small and even moderately large cultures have successfully grown and harvested their own crops for generations using sustainable practices such as crop rotation. (more…)
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July 28th, 2007 at 08:39pm
Under Organic Gardening
Get your soil in the best condition for growing organic vegetables with these simple steps.
When a farmer is growing organic vegetables, there are two different schools of thought on how best to prepare the optimum conditions plants need for growing. Our first choice is to feed the plant directly, and this has its benefits. However, in order to truly maintain a sustainable piece of land for agriculture, we need to learn how to feed the soil. (more…)
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July 28th, 2007 at 04:31pm
Under Organic Gardening
Find out how using green manures in your organic vegetable garden can reduce or eliminate any need for alternative fertilizers.
We’ve all heard of animal manures as a soil amendment for vegetable gardening. Farmers have been using manure for centuries in their soil preparation as a way to add beneficial elements like nitrogen, potassium, and calcium back into the soil to be used as essential food for their vegetable crops. However, by incorporating a system of green manures into your garden, you can provide your land with an green alternative to using animal products.
What is a green manure?
Green manures are crops that are grown by farmers on their vegetable plots or beds which aren’t meant for harvesting or consumption. They are simply grown in order to be tilled into the soil to add their nitrogen and other elements back into the earth to make the piece of land more productive. While many traditional farmers grow these plants as feed for their animals, they don’t need to be used as such. They can go directly back into your soil to make it more fertile. These crops include plants such as alfalfa, clover, rye, vetch, soybeans, and oats. Green manures can be grown in a couple of different ways. Let’s take a look at the benefits of green manures, as well as a couple of different methods for incorporating a green manure into the crop rotation of your organic vegetable garden. (more…)
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