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WILDCRAFTING #2: MUGWORT, (bonus plant Wormwood), YARROW AND RED CLOVER. And a little conversation with God and St. Francis on Lawns.

Posted in community, diy, health & beauty, nature, organic, organic gardening, plant identification, tagged , , , , on August 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Find it-MUGWORT-ID it Know it http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/mugwor61.html I have to tell you Mugwort and Wormwood are very close. They are related and they are both good herbs to wildcraft. So here is a pic and description of Wormwood. Two for the price of one. Find it-WORMWOOD-ID it Know it http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/w/wormwo37.html The leaves on the wormwood are [...]

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Wildcrafting #1 Starter guide

Posted in community, health & beauty, nature, plant identification, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged , , , , , , , on August 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Wildcrafting #1: Starter guide Introduction Wildcrafting is the ancient art of taking care of yourself by taking care of Mother Nature.  A tried and true method of not only survival and sustainability, but also a way of promoting abundance, diversity and showing gratitude to dear old MOM who is always looking to shower us with [...]

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A Short Intermission from the GMO Story with an Update on Samson & Fam

Posted in announcement, community, health & beauty, local businesses, money, nature, organic, organic gardening, politics, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Samson was scheduled to do this week’s blog but he is up to his eyeballs in moving and getting settled.  So, this is kind of an intermission.   The intermission is a trailer for the award winning documentary Food, Inc.  This comes with a warning.  If you can’t stand the truth or you are not ready [...]

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GMO Story Continued: Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will be done on earth… part 3 of 5

Posted in community, health & beauty, site updates, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »

A plant cell is different from an animal cell. Different because the genes in  a plant cell are programmed to make roots, stems and leaves not bones, tissues, organs.  KISs. Keeping it Simple simon.  Simply,  plant cells will separate just like the animal cells. That’s the organism part, but with very different results because of [...]

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What is a GMO? Do Trees Sneeze? 1 of 5

Posted in community, health & beauty, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Trees don’t sneeze.  People sneeze. Dogs sneeze                             Lioness sneeze But trees don’t sneeze ‘cause they don’t have any noses, or nasal passages or lungs like people and animals. So what does sneezing trees have to do with GMO’s? Surprisingly just about everything and I do mean everything. Why trees don’t sneeze and people do all [...]

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Orb weaver spider-Meet Charlotte

Posted in community, health & beauty, local businesses, organic gardening, sustainability, tagged , , , , , , on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As near as I can tell this is a Eriophora transmarina from Australia. It was sitting in a covered glass on the counter top when I came home from work last night.  A note on the top read. “Jessica saved your life. Beward! Spider! Real One!” I picked up the glass and shook it to [...]

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The new feminism: the fight for female plant equality

Posted in health & beauty, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Ogren is a genius. Last week we did a frenetic cross-town exposition on plants, allergies, and health with him. As he showed us around SLO, pointing out the allergy-inducing plants that abound in public places, it sunk in to me that we’ve been pretty careless about how we’ve landscaped our homes and our city. [...]

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Many other uses for vinegar

Posted in health & beauty, tagged , , , , , on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After Samson blogged about using vinegar as an herbicide, I started thinking about all the other things you can do with vinegar. So here’s my vinegar post! Samson used to tease me about the fact that no matter how clean I was able to get my car, my windows were ALWAYS streaked.  I would get [...]

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