This is a Cattail A Cattail is regarded as one of the Fantastic 4. One of 4 plants that could save your life. Know what the other three are? Here are the parts of the Cattail that we are going to be talking about starting with the roots and rhizomes. Rhizomes are underground stems. They [...]
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Wildcrafting #1 Starter guide
Posted in community, health & beauty, nature, plant identification, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged foraging, mustard, plantain, scarlet pimpernel, surviving in the wild, wild foraging, Wildcrafting, yarrow 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 [...]
I Smell Gas
Posted in community, diy, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged fix a gas leak, gas leaks, gas smell, shut off valve, stinky neighbors on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been smelling gas in the house. Not all the time just occasionally and just faintly. No it’s not Major. Or the cabbage. I was not really worried but it was annoying. I decided to call the gas company and have them check for leaks. I needed the telephone number to call. I thought [...]
OMG Look What My Earthworms Did!
Posted in community, sustainable lifestyle, tagged comfrey, compost bins, compost pile, composting, earthworms, nettle, organic compost, temperature of compost, worm composting on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
They saved me $9. Or made me $9 worth of organic compost. That’s what this 5 pound bucket of organic compost would cost me at Home Depot. I just harvested this in less than an hour. It cost me nothing to make. Labor was free. The earthworms did it for nothing. I didn’t do anything [...]
How to start a Movement. Just Do It.
Posted in community, diy, GE, Genetically Modified Organism, GM, gmo, sustainability, sustainable lifestyle, tagged starting movements on April 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ring-a-ling, Ring-a- ling, Hello? Just Pick up the phone and dial the number. Send that email. Just do it. The rest will happen. Had my 3-way conference call Friday with Shannon Biggs co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots. Shannon Biggs directs the Local Economy project at Global Exchange. As [...]
Settling in, Everett Style
Posted in sustainable lifestyle, tagged composting, craigslist, diy, edible yards, everett, family, freecycle, homeschooling, kids, knowledge, learning, organic gardening, saving money, sustainability, update, worm bins on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve finally managed to get all the boxes (mostly) unpacked and I can tell you it feels VERY nice to be settled. The furnished apartment was pleasant, but it wasn’t home. Now those things that make a home what it is are in their proper places and I feel like I can breathe deeply… …and [...]
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 [...]
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 animal kingdom, genes, genetics, GMO's., plant kingdom 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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