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Indoor Gardening and Repotting Houseplants

Catherine Sherriffs

The colder months can be anxious ones for keen gardeners who want to get their hands dirty again. If you’re one of them, don’t let the snow and cold get you down. It is the perfect time to consider repotting your houseplants! Wintertime is ideal for moving indoor plants into bigger or better homes. When…

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The Differences Between Hemp and Marijuana

A truck pulls over at a weigh station at the East Boise Port of Entry in Idaho. During a routine check, state troopers open the trailer and find a green, leafy substance inside – almost 7,000 pounds of it. The trucker is arrested for marijuana trafficking; only he says it’s not marijuana. It’s hemp. True…
February 15, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Zero Waste Lifestyle: Regrowing Food From Kitchen Scraps

In the kitchen, a chopping block is a cruel place. Leftover bits and pieces of ingredients that don’t make the cut at mealtime are carelessly discarded. But did you know many of those scraps have more life to give, and that you can easily regrow food with them? Composting is most often touted as the…
February 13, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Cannabis Roots May Be Just As Therapeutic As The Rest Of The Plant

Marijuana is said to have many medicinal benefits; science has shown that the flowers of the cannabis plant can help people cope with chronic pain, nausea, and mental health issues. A lesser-known fact is that cannabis roots may also have potential healing powers. Rooted In History The possible benefits associated with cannabis roots is not…
February 8, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

How Your Garden Grows: The Impact Of Sound On Plants

There’s a theory that you can give your gardens a boost by singing or talking to your plants. When my three-year-old learned about this recently, he began belting out a tune by Nirvana to one of my houseplants. Yes, Nirvana. I have a pretty cool kid. Like humans, plants are living things, and they need…
February 6, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Glow From Greenhouses Lighting Up Night Skies

While driving home late one night a few weeks ago, I noticed an eerie, yellow-orange glow in the sky. From far, I thought something had caught fire, but as I drove closer, I realized it wasn’t that at all. Rays of light were coming from tomatoes. Greenhouse Glow Well, not the tomatoes themselves, but rather,…
February 1, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Worms At Work: How To Build Your Own Vermicomposting Bin

When looking for the king of all composters, gardening gurus say look no further than red wiggler worms (Eisenia foetida). Capable of eating the equivalent of their own body weight a day, there is no better way to turn kitchen scraps into black gold. Feeling a little jumpy? Get over it, and your gardens will…
January 30, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs
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A Guide To Growing Edible Plants For Protein

A flexitarian is someone who limits his consumption of meat, but who is not exclusively vegetarian. The flexitarian diet can be practised in a variety of ways: some people do not eat meat every meal or regularly choose to make an entire day meatless, while others are vegetarians most of the time, but occasionally eat meat.
January 26, 2019
Albert Mondor

Organic, Exotic, and Sustainable Food Trends For 2019

There are some exciting new food trends on the horizon for 2019. From exotic fruits and veggies to brand new lettuce and various homemade staples, our plates may look a little different this year. In 2018, we all wanted transparency. The consensus amongst industry experts was that we wanted to know how our food was…
January 25, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Moon Gardening: Myth or Method?

With the Super Blood Wolf Moon wowing stargazers around the world over the weekend, the celestial body has been getting a lot of attention lately. The recent total lunar eclipse doesn’t have much to do with gardening, but looking to the Moon for beautiful blooms and bountiful harvests is an age-old technique once again gaining…
January 23, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs
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Green Gardeners and Farmers Improve Soil with Biochar

What if there was a natural soil conditioner that was not only easy to source but could feed soil microbiology and remain stable for thousands of years? Well, read on! Biochar has the most complex structure of any material on Earth and is excellent for improving soil retention while also protecting against soil-borne diseases.
January 19, 2019
Stoney Tark

World Opinions Differ On Safety Of Glyphosate

There probably isn’t a product that has stirred up as much controversy as Roundup. While one part of the world officially banned a form of the weed killer this week, another part has re-approved its active ingredient for long-term use. In France France has taken Roundup Pro 360 off store shelves after a court ruled…
January 18, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs