Most Recent Natural Alternatives Articles

What’s Your Annual Radiation Dose?

Everyone is so concerned about radiation levels increasing due to the disaster in Japan. Ironically, we absorb radiation everyday. Knowing the proper levels of radiation we are exposed to each year can help us stay healthier.

Survival Food Series: 3 Ways To Naturally Make Yeast

Without yeast, our lives would be void of many of our day-to-day products. Getting back to the basics and learning how to make yeast yourself will give you an invaluable skill to hold onto and share with others. Using different produce such as oranges, potatoes, herbs and grains is not only a great science experiment, but a way for you to play around with the flavors of your favorite bread recipes.

To Your Health Series: Types of Medicinal Mushrooms

Eastern medicine values preventative medicine over reactive medicine. For centuries, cultures have long considered certain mushrooms to be responsibile for their prosperity and health. Their use of these mushrooms contributed to longer lifetimes, less health issues, more youthful appearances, and increased energy levels. Read more to understand the healing properties that mushrooms can provide, as well as learn some of the most popular medicinal mushrooms available.

To Your Health Series: How Medicinal Mushrooms Can Benefit Your Immune System

In traditional Eastern medicine, mushrooms are the drug of choice and hailed for their medicinal powers. Only recently have Westerners discovered the untapped medicinal source from mushrooms. More notably, certain mushrooms, such as shiitake and reishi mushrooms have antiviral and antibiotic properties that could come in handy during a long term emergency, especially if added to a survival medicinal garden. Thus providing a person with an immense amount of nutrition and medical uses.

5 Ways to Use a Pumpkin

There is more to the pumpkin than meets the eye. The nutrition value alone makes pumpkins a vitamin powerhouse. Here are five ways to use pumpkins other than for a jack-o-lantern.

Make Vinegar From Apples

In the children’s classics, Little House on the Prairie, readers fell in love with the Ingall’s family, and especially Ma’s cooking. Her recipes were frontier food, where everything was used, nothing wasted. Here is a classic recipe for apple core vinegar. A recipe, every family should have on hand to use for cooking, as well as medicinal uses.

6 Ways to Recycle Water

Water is an important part of our lives, and something we take for granted. Learnings ways to conserve water will help during droughts, economic hardships, keeping the utility bill down and conserving our vital natural resources. Here are 6 ways to conserve water from the home.

It Ain’t Just For Smoking: Known But Beneficial Uses For Tobacco

Over the course of centuries, tobacco was hailed for it’s medicinal uses and cures. But in today’s world, the tobacco plant has a really bad reputation. But it has more uses than just for smoking and chewing. In fact, any person who is planning for a long term emergency situation should have a stock of tobacco, not only for it’s bartering potential, but also for it’s assistance in gardens, as well as for it’s medicinal purposes.

The Dirty Truth About Being Green

It’s refreshing to see a large company beginning to take those initial steps to being a “greener company.” Sunchips has taken those steps and created new plant based packaging that can be broken down in a compost pile. The more food products that can be made out of recyclable or compostable materials, the better off we and our compost piles will be.

10 Ways To Make Your Trash Work For You

Those that are attempting to adopt the homesteading mindset are trying to re-learn the lost knowledge from our agrerian ancestors, as well as trying to find practical ways to save a buck or two. The homesteading mindset is all about re-purposing items we already have in our possession. Finding ways to re-purpose trash can not only make your lifestyle more “green,”, but it can save you money and time as well.