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Beyond The Garden

Live your best life! Learn about the different things you can do with your harvest, the latest healthy lifestyle trends, and ways you can make an impact outside of the garden.

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Best “Grow Your Own” Books to read over the Holidays

With all the Holiday commotion what better time is there to escape for a few hours and indulge in one of your favorite subjects, …

Beware of Farm to Table Fraud Eateries

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Amazon Developing Consumer Garden Service?

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.91″ background_layout=”light”] It looks like garden service is coming to the plethora of things Amazon offers you. …

GMO Breeding Reduces Crop Adaptability

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.83″] A private GMO corn study reveals that high yield “breeding” is messing up the crop’s ability …

Grape-Aid: Napa Valley Superfoods Rescue Project

There are superfoods hanging on the smoke and fire damaged vines following this fall’s California wildfires, and one Napa Valley …

Produce Stickers and Tattoos

Produce stickers are edible? Not the plastic or paper types! That adhesive on either seems pretty questionable too. Especially when …

Solving Plastic Bag Pollution with Plants

Many people don’t realize how big the plastic bag pollution problem is. Surprising, since much of what we buy today …

Top 4 True Natural Beauty Products

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_layout=”light”] Skin is the largest organ in the human body, and if you don’t want GMOs …

Kenaf Fire Logs: Smart Renewable Fuel Crop

Now there’s a renewable heating fuel that burns hotter and longer than the best firewood, yet it involves no deforestation. …

Cannabis Chaos: Marijuana Laws Across North America

With cannabis use legal, in one way or another, in all but seven states in the US, you’d think we’d …

Prison Gardens: Inside-Out Crime Prevention

You can find hope in any garden not suffocated by weeds, and even then, there’s still hope – if you …

The Rammed Earth House: Sustainable Building

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People Street Food: The Urban Food Street

The neighborhood that grows together literally put a healthy twist on street food. It all started with one food street …

Urban Gardens and Green Spaces: Holistic Environmental Health

You don’t have to work in a garden or partake of its harvest to benefit from one. Research is proving …

Preserving Health Benefits of Mushrooms in the Kitchen

Many people eat mushrooms because they taste great, but they offer tons more than flavor. They’re rich in vitamins and …

Summer Solstice

This is the week of the summer solstice, also known as midsummer (the halfway point of summer). The solstices and …

How to Make Humidity Disks for Herb Jars

Simple homemade clay humidity disks (a.k.a. “Grubbycoins”) can be used to extend and improve the life of dried herbs and …

University Gardens that Give Back by Growing

In recent years, unused land on campuses scattered across the US has been turned into sustainable university gardens that produce organic …

Meet Spacepot: NASA-Inspired Hydroponic Pots

Growing leafy greens and herbs outdoors is pretty simple. Loosen the soil. Sow the seed. Water regularly, and food appears. …

Crazy for Cordage

Cording is a specific way to twist fibers to form strands, ropes and perhaps least surprisingly, cords. Cordage is literally …

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