Nashville, TN Residents: Nashville Sustainability Needs Your Help TODAY!

Nashville needs your help TODAY! The Metro Council hearing on the Proposal for Backyard Poultry Bill is TODAY. Backyard poultry is a big part of self-reliant food production and urban sustainability. This very important to residents and their families!! Please send a short email note to the Metro Council representative in your district AND to all Council [...]

Help Needed!! Metro Nashville/Davidson Co. Council Members to Vote on Backyard Hens Tue Jan 3, 2012

by Pam Jones, from Transition Nashville What could be more green than a pet that makes you breakfast in your back yard? Metro Nashville/Davidson County Council members will vote about backyard hens (second reading) on Tuesday, January 3rd, so we need your help! See Nashville backyard chicken ordinance NO. BL2011-47  at   www.nashville.gov/mc/ordinances/term_2011_2015/bl2011_47.htm  If you live [...]

Rain Gardens Help Reduce Pollution and Protect Precious Drinking Water

Rain gardens are gaining in popularity as a sustainable way to beautifully landscape property while helping to reduce water pollution.

Make it Fresh! How to Make Dandelion Tea and Cook Dandelion Greens

The benefits of dandelion greens are amazing!  Dandelion leaf tea is an excellent tonic and detox for the entire body.  It helps to cleanse and detoxify the bladder, kidneys, liver and blood.  It is an excellent, healthy diuretic because it is a natural source of potassium and replenishes any potassium lost through its diuretic action. When [...]

Grow Your Natural Living Skills! Saturday Oct 8, Nashville, TN

AN AFTERNOON OF FIVE DIVERSE MINI PLANT CLASSES, CLOTHING AND BOOKSWAP! This event is sponsored by Cindy Moonrose of Eatable Weed Walks and Plant Classes.  Cindy is very knowledgable and a talented instructor.  I have personally attended several of her classes, and have always come home with a wealth of new knowledge! (And sometimes even samples!) [...]

Control Your Food Bill: Eat Better Food, Save Money, and Protect Yourself

FOOD. It’s the most the most important thing to all of us. Do you realize how much you can save on your food bill each year? According to The Food4Wealth Program, the average family spends around $5000 per year on fresh food. That is a huge amount of money considering the average family earns less [...]

My Eco-Organic Garden Update: The Eggplants Have Arrived!

Thank you for following my eco-organic garden project!!  When checking the garden this morning, I was surprised to find some eggplants, almost 3″ long… buried down in the jungle of plants.  I didn’t see them yesterday–I’m not sure if they weren’t there yet, or if I just overlooked them because of the abundance of plants [...]

My Eco-Organic Garden Update: The “Eco” Part is Starting to Work!

Thank you for following my eco-organic garden project!  Today was an exciting day for the project!  When I went out to check on it this morning, it DIDN’T NEED TO BE WATERED!  The “Eco” part of the project is starting to take effect!  To the right is a photo of down inside the plants.  It’s [...]

My Eco-Organic Garden Update: The Plants are Thriving!!

Thanks for following the progress of my eco-organic garden! This photo of the eco-organic garden project was taken yesterday.  As you can see, the plants are thriving!  I’ve already harvested some zucchini, yellow squash, scallions, and cayenne peppers.  There are a bunch of cherry tomatoes that look like they’ll be ripe in a week or [...]

Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Names: Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare), Common Thistle, Spear Thistle, Fuller’s Thistle Appearance: Thistles are easy to spot because the leaves and stems are prickly and hurt when you touch them. There are no poisonous look-alikes to thistles. None of the true thistles are known to be toxic, but the flavor varies from plant to plant. [...]

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