Welcome guest poster, Katy of Non-Toxic Kids, and author of new must read e-book, Eat-Non-Toxic: a manual for busy parents What’s up with that Butterball turkey? Sure, it’s cheaper, it’s available, and your mom used to make it, but… That turkey was likely raised on a factory farm. Just what is a factory farm? According to the website, Sustainable [...]
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Welcome guest poster, Jakob Barry, who writes for Networx.com. When you come across an ant, roach, or silverfish in your home you probably stop in your tracks for a brief moment before deciding how to proceed. Should you ignore it, go for the kill, or capture and toss it outside? Stink bugs are one [...]
October 31 is the day of candy overload. I don’t know about your kids, but mine guard their stash better than Fort Knox. I kid you not. Sure they get their usual couple of pieces the night of Halloween, but after that I limit their candy intake. (So, I think. Check out the nerds [...]
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With all of our creature comforts, it is hard to imagine that somewhere in the world woman are carrying wood on their back for miles so that they can cook meals. Worse yet, their health is deteriorating from smoke inhalation from their cooking fires. The Paradigm Project was started to change these women’s lives by supplying them with a [...]
Since going vegetarian over a year ago, I had to revamp my eating habits. As you all know, I decided to go “veg” due to my distaste of factory animal farming and killing animals. But I can’t say I don’t miss the taste of certain food. There is one dish that I haven’t been able to duplicate. [...]
Richard Campbell, founder of To Soil Less, never dreamed fifteen years ago that throwing a watermelon seed into gravel could change the way the world grows our food. What he discovered during his journey is that plants can grow in river rock without the aid of fertilizer or soil. He has successfully grown peppers, zinnias, lettuce, [...]
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Since starting the garden, I have been obsessed with food blogs. So that you know, I don’t have an ounce of recipe creativeness in my pinky finger. My favorite recipes are ones that make everything from scratch. Hard, yes. But really fun and sometimes less expensive. So, I jumped at the chance to make my [...]
In penning Green Talk, I have met so many people who have created green businesses because of their own needs. All businesses are inspiring and passionate. However, KOL Foods and its founder, Devora Kimelman-Block, stopped me in my tracks. Kimelman-Block took on the kosher meat industry, and created an organic, grass-fed, Glatt kosher meat [...]
With our troubled economy, could feng shui, a traditional time aged practice, change our home and work environments to be more profitable, harmonious and healthy? Maureen Calamia, founder of Luminous Spaces, a green Feng Shui consulting company, has in fact been helping people and companies for several years to transform their buildings into healthy positive [...]
Do you enjoy pickles? Ever thought of pickling your cucumbers? A couple of years ago, I had an overabundance of lemon cucumbers. (Remember, those yellow tennis ball type cucumbers I talked about a few years ago? ) Simply freezing the cucumbers isn’t an option since they become soggy. So, I pickled the cukes. The recipe [...]
