How to Garden for Wildlife

Courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation Follow These Five Easy Steps to Attract Birds, Butterflies, and Other Wildlife to Your Backyard!   1. Grow plants that provide wildlife with a natural food source such as nuts, berries or nectar, or offer supplemental feeders. 2. Provide water for wildlife with a birdbath, small pond, or shallow [...]

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 [...]

ORTHO’S ALL ABOUT HERBS by Maggie Oster (A Review)

Discover the beauty, versatility, and practicality of herbs. Ortho’s All About Herbs not only shows you how to choose, cultivate, and preserve herbs, but also tells you how to incorporate them into your garden. You’ll also find tips on using herbs for cooking, health, crafts and even beauty. A special directory includes color photographs and [...]

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.

Wild Backyard Stir-Fry

Who says tasty organic food has to be expensive… or bought from the store?!?   With a few standard staples, a little imagination, and use of what Mother Nature has sprouting in your own back yard, you can have wholesome, healthy meals quickly, easily and inexpensively! Here is a recipe that we just tossed together today, [...]

ECHO Erases Hunger With Natural Pesticides and GMO-Free Seeds

By Celeste Baumgartner Farm World, Ohio Correspondent FT. MYERS, Fla.–The Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) is dedicated to reducing hunger and improving lives through agriculture. ECHO’s demonstration farm is a living classroom dedicated to helping poor farmers overseas become more productive. Over 9,000 visitors tour the farm every year.  ECHO is a Christian organization; [...]

Cucumbers: Did You Know…

Learn some interesting and amazing uses for cucumbers.

The Health Hazards of GM Corn

A study demonstrates the toxicity of genetically modified corn, which shows that it is neither sufficiently healthy nor proper to be commercialized.

Big Pharma’s Secret: Tamiflu is an Herbal Extract

Many people have sweetgum trees in their backyards!

COMMON VIOLET (Viola odorata) ~ LuminEarth.com’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Violet (Viola odorata) Other Names: Ordinary violet, Common blue violet, Sweet violet, Garden violet. The violet is edible and medicinal

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