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These 10 Companies Own Almost All of the Brands You Use
Walking into the grocery store, gas station, or restaurant, one is presented with a wide variety of food and beverage choices, but most don’t realize
Ultimate Recycling: 8 Fruits And Veggies You Can Regrow From Scraps
Buying and eating organic can get quite pricey these days, but what if you could turn your left overs into fresh new produce? The practice
Aquaponics Greenhouses Grow 1 Million Pounds of Food on Just 3 Acres!
Have you heard of aquaponics? It’s the food production method that combines raising fish and growing vegetables to create a sustainable living ecosystem. The plants
The Milk Conspiracy: How Consumers Fought Back And Won $52 Million
Milk drinkers nation wide have been awarded a settlement in a class action anti-trust milk lawsuit against the National Milk Producers Federation aka Cooperatives Working Together (CWT).
Fruit and Herb Infused Water
I hate water. There. I said it. It’s boring, it always tastes strange to me, even if it’s reverse osmosis or straight from my BERKEY.
Illegal Weed Is a Deadly Policy: My Story and My Hope for Decriminalization
Illegal Weed Ruined My Life Many follow my personal story and know that drug policy, particularly cannabis laws, has affected my life pretty severely and
Amazing Smartphone App Instantly Identifies Flowers and Plants
How many times have you been wandering the garden or out on a hike and saw a plant that you just couldn’t identify? Well, as
50ft “Dignity” Statue Erected Just Four Hours Away From Standing Rock..Oh, the Irony.
Did you know that in September of 2016, a gorgeous statue of a Native American woman went up in Chamberlain, South Dakota, to pay homage
Methods to Assist A Healing Fever
This article was originally published on The Grow Network. There will probably be few times in your life when you actually need to give medication
Growing Guide To Beat The Heat: Drought Resistant Plants
You are capable of growing and producing your own food, you just have to be knowledgeable on the conditions and care your plants need! Find
Drink Your Fungus! Continuous-Brew Chaga (Mushroom) Tea and Coffee
What is “mushroom coffee”, and why on Earth would anyone want to drink (what basically amounts to) fungus juice? The answers might surprise you! If
The Five Most Nutritious Vegetables Varieties For The Home Garden
From Marjory Wildcraft’s GrowYourOwnGroceries.org This is the time of year you start getting seed catalogs in the mail. As you start to plan ahead for
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BioIntensive Gardening – How to Double Dig, Make Compost, & Companion Plant
Biointensive gardening is an organic method designed to creative highly productive gardens with long term sustainability at its core. What is so great about this
IT’S ALIVE! Living No-Turn Compost: BioChar
Maybe you wanted to start composting this Earth Day, but you’ve heard it’s tricky to get right. I understand–nobody wants a stinky mess out back
The Tropical Fruit Tree Americans Forgot: The Pawpaw Tree
What if I told you that North America has an easy-to-grow native tropical fruit tree that you’ve never even heard of? The Pawpaw is our
Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets of Companion Planting + Popular Planting Combinations
Did you know that tomatoes hate cucumbers? Consider companion planting. While they might taste great together in a salad, tomato plants dislike growing in close
How To Start a Kitchen Scrap Garden
How to Regrow Kitchen Scraps Feel like you never really get your money’s worth of lettuce or celery at the store? Why not grow another
This is Why Your Compost Stinks
You started out with good intentions–wanting to create richer soil for your garden and reduce your waste. Maybe you even bought the pretty compost crock