Consider the fact that your typical car tire is responsible for carrying thousands of pounds over tens of thousands of miles.
Sustainable Lifestyle
Learn how to reduce your resource consumption and live mindfully for a better future with our sustainable lifestyle resources. Explore our library with information on gardening, homesteading, do-it-yourself projects, repurposing and more to help you live a more sustainable, meaningful lifestyle.
How to Select the Best Grow Light for Your Indoor Garden
With the price of food on a steady incline, more people are making an effort to grow their own food sources at home. While having a functioning garden is easy during the warm summer months, when the days get shorter in the fall, gardeners have to get creative in helping plants grow.
Identify Nature With These Cool Apps
All of these apps are under $5 and most of them are free. Take advantage and download the ones that interest you before your next brush with nature!
Improve Your Food Forest By Adding Density
Why is it that we find wandering through a lush woodland a wonderful thing… yet fight against lush growth on our own properties?
Improve Your Soil Naturally
Utilizing the way the forest creates soil could be the secret to growing healthy plants. Re-creating the forest floor and it’s different types of layers allows for a complex mix of essential ingredients needed to create living soil. Knowing what nutrients are needed to create living, viable soil will not only enhance the performance of the plants, but create a living soil environment for beneficial insects to thrive.
In Ground Composting
When we were growing our own food space was very important. We had a good sized garden, but not massive, and compost heaps take up a lot of room.
Infographic: Composting 101
There are many gardeners who have problems with their soil. One of easiest and inexpensive ways to improve your soil quality is through composting. The following infographic is a wonderful illustration that represents what to add and not to add to your compost pile.
Infographic: What Does Organic Really Mean?
It seems that the meaning of the term “organic” lies in the eye of the beholder. According to this shocking infographic, it seems that our commercialized food sources are not held to the same standards that those who produce their own food sources are.
Is Your Soil Getting Enough Calories?
It’s time to look outside of the box and really begin to examine and applying new farming strategies that are more symbiotic and efficient for us in the long run.
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.
