Milk Jug Hot Caps
By Catherine Haug, Feb 3, 2018; image right, from Gardening Hacks article (1)
I happened upon an interesting blog article: 19 Gardening Hacks to Become a Pro Gardener (1). Several of the hacks involve repurposing household items that would otherwise be trash/compost. Here’s a list of the 19; check out the article for more detail on each. (more…)
By Catherine Haug, July 8, 2017
Today’s Daily Inter Lake featured an article, How do you make your own mulch? by Paul Pogue for Angie’s list (1). He breaks it down to 5 steps:
Read on for more about mulching. (more…)
Veggie Landscape Garden
by Catherine Haug, July 6, 2017 (Photo, right, from Dr. Mercola’s website (3))
Kathie is offering a home-canning class at FVCC, and something new: an e-course on ‘Savoring Summer Fun. Read on for more details from Kathie’s newsletter.
Also included in this post are the following from Kathie:
and from Mercola, on growing broccoli, and growing cilantro.
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Dryland Farming – Palouse Hills
By Catherine Haug, May 3, 2017 (Photo, right, from Wikimedia Commons)
I’ve written several articles in the last year about Regeneration – an Organic method of healing our soils for better quality food production, and to reduce the damage caused by severe erosion. (see also list at bottom of this posting). But did you know that it can also help to resolve the climate crisis?
Regeneration International (RI) brought this important message to the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 3, 2017:
The climate crisis won’t be solved through emissions reduction alone. If we want to reverse climate change, we must also regenerate the world’s soils and better manage local water cycles. … These experts explain how our ability to feed the world and cool the planet depends on how we care for the soil.
Read on to see the short videos from the January 11, 2017 summit, “How to Feed the World and Cool the Planet: Soil Is the Solution” I also include an hour-long video from Fair World Project, “Grow Ahead,” and a list of other articles on this site about regeneration of our soils. (more…)
Veggie Landscape Garden
By Catherine Haug, Jan 21, 2017 (photo, right, from Mercola (2))
I am viewing the online docu-series: The Truth About Cancer, by Ty Bollinger, and I’m picking up on a few of garden/landscape tips that yield healthy plants and a healthier you when you eat them.
One of the things I’ve learned from this series is that cancer cells have more insulin receptors (that initiate take-up of sugar from the blood) than normal cells, and that cancer cells get their energy (life) from only two sources: sugar and glutamine (amino acid). So if you want to protect yourself from cancer or slow tumor growth, avoid sugar.
However, that doesn’t mean to avoid whole-food sources of sugar such as fruits and vegetables, because in whole-food form, the sugar is part of a larger matrix of fiber, antioxidants, and other phytochemicals that protect you. (Caveat #1: fruit juices don’t provide this protection because the matrix is broken, so eat your fruits whole; caveat #2: those fruits and veggies should be organically grown for maximum benefit).
But I digress. The purpose of this posting is to collect gardening and landscaping tips. I will update this posting as I learn more. (more…)
Frankenfood
By Catherine Haug, Oct 5, 2016 (image, right, from Organic Consumers Association, used with permission)
With GMOs, it only gets worse by the day.
Say what?
Yes, you read that right. It’s downright scary. What can you do? For starters, you can take action on the last issue by signing a petition telling the USDA to stop ignoring GM cross-contamination (3). And you can hope/pray that a test is developed to determine if a seed contains GMO genes. Read on for more about Franken-broccoli. (more…)
