Get It Growing: Set Your July Gardening Calendar
July is generally warm and dry, making it a bad month for planting. To learn tips and tricks to help your garden stay lush this summer, click here.
Everything You Need To Know About Soil pH For A Healthy Garden
If you’re getting serious about gardening, you’ll probably get a recommendation to check your soil pH—but what does that really mean? pH is simply a measure of how acid or alkaline a substance is, and soil acidity or alkalinity is important because it influences how easily plants can take up nutrients from the soil. To…
12 Natural Cures For Scorching Sunburns
Your day of summer fun is winding down and what do you know? You got burned and now you need a soothing remedy. You know that UV exposure can cause skin to age quickly and trigger skin cancer, but despite your best efforts to protect yourself from sun damage with sunscreen, you’ve gotten this painful,…
The Many Amazing Ways Earthworms Can Help Your Garden
The pale red garden earthworm is often called “nature’s plow.” That’s because an earthworm pushes through soft earth with the point of its head. If the soil is hard, the worm eats its way through, forming interconnected burrows, some several feet deep. Burrows loosen the soil, admitting air and water and helping roots grow. A…
10 Amazing Organic Farms That Double As Family-Friendly Bed And Breakfasts
Kids often get the chance to have educational experiences, but what about agricultural ones? For your next family vacation, consider booking a room at an organic farmstay. At a farmstay, your family can sleep at a working farm (often in deluxe digs) and rise with the rooster’s crow to help milk goats, feed chickens, pick…
The 5 Best Sunscreens for Kids And Babies
Choosing a sunscreen for your kids is way more complicated than it should be. Sure, there are loads of options out there that claim to be safe—but the truth is, the majority of sunscreens lining drugstore shelves are chemical-based. Why that’s so bad? These sunscreens often oxybenzone, a chemical that studies indicate may trigger allergic…
Learn Your Global Footprint
Do you ever wonder what your impact is on our global resources? Follow the link here to learn what resources you most strongly impact and to learn how to change your habits.
14 Simple Gardening Tips and Tricks
From using leftover coffee beans to preventing dirt from getting underneath fingernails, master gardener Paul James shares his top 14 tips and shortcuts to make spring gardening a breeze. Click here to learn more.
6 Cookie Recipes With Absolutely No Sugar Added
Cutting back on added sugar is one of the cardinal rules of clean eating. But even if you ditch Oreos for homemade cookies baked with honey or maple syrup, you’re still eating a fair share of the stuff. Though natural sweeteners like these do affect your blood sugar in a slightly different way than the…
Green Garlic Risotto- Dishing up the Dirt
Green garlic (also known as spring garlic) is simply garlic that hasn’t fully matured. It’s pulled from the earth before the garlic bulb has fully developed. It looks similar to a leek or large scallion but has a lovely fresh garlic flavor. I love that you don’t have to peel it (unlike garlic cloves) and…