Growing at the Speed of Life - A Year in the Life of My First Kitchen Garden
this personally, even though I was far from the only one urging folks to consume more. Why was this happening? And what more cou ...
sits on an acre of land that falls off rapidly to the west, giving us up to 16 hours of sunshine on our south side in midsummer. ...
more so since the Internet has provided us with a whole new community of viewers (many of whom have only the vague recol lectio ...
enough. For the gourmets among you, I hope that the information about com mon and not-so-common vegetables and the accompanying ...
Chapter Two The Garden-to- Kitchen Connection I n the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, the United States male and female re ...
everyone to see. We’ve gained weight at an So what if all I did was pick up some alarming rate, and weight is a prime pre produ ...
applied. While there is a sacrifice, there is also the ample reward as the seed breaks open and new life appears and grows and g ...
Nudge-Nudge: The Law of Intended Consequences I’ve now lived long enough to have seen politicians manipulate the nutritional sci ...
Breakfast (Cereal with either) 1 banana = 1 serving And/or ¼ cup dried fruit = 1 serving And/or ½ cup berries = 1 serving 100% f ...
Upon review, I’d call this a fairly typical example of “Nudge-nudge, wink-wink . . . say no more,” to co-opt the famous line fro ...
■ We would likely lose weight, reducing type 2 diabetes. ■ We might also see a reduction in some cancers. It is instructive to l ...
local and smaller producers use less oil. But it would also increase the price to the consumer. As prices rose, so would the num ...
and when that happens, the kitchen garden may well be the most logical and cost-effective way to go. By the mid-2010s, say 2015– ...
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Chapter Three My Need-to-Know List I know of literally dozens of great books on gardening that go to enormous lengths to cover t ...
Soil Improvement: fertilizer, soil-less mixes, manure, stones Raised Beds: layout, pathways, crop plan, critter control EarthBo ...
dumping all the surface water directly onto our sunny gardening site. Our first task was to redirect the surface water by dig g ...
by canoe to harvest natural berries that had survived, even fl ourished, without the slightest intervention by humankind. The mo ...
The plants that grow in our increasingly rich soil will draw energ y and health from So what if there are more than 5,000 chemic ...
When the entire grass area was cer tified as truly dead, the next step was to churn up the whole mess. Our soil was wet clay wi ...
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