Can You Can? Preserving Your Fruits and Veggies

If you are looking for a way to preserve your fruits and veggies from your summer harvest you need to think about canning them for the winter. When you grow your own fruits and veggies you not only save yourself money but you also save all of the chemicals that are put into foods in supermarkets today. Growing your own food is the best option if you have the ability to do it. When you grown your own food you give yourself Read the rest of this entry »

You Are What You Eat: The Argument for Organic

For years we simply went along not questioning what was in our food, or how it was produced. This is because we simply had faith that there was someone overseeing this production that had our best interest at heart. In recent years, we are finding out that this might not be the case.

Certified organic foods are free from chemicals, hormones, pesticides, and other things that can do harm to our bodies. There are so many health problems Read the rest of this entry »

Community Ties: Creating Your Own CSA

Community Supported Agriculture has become very popular in providing consumers with local home grown food directly from farmers. A CSA is beneficial to both the consumers and the farmers and helps everyone to support local small businesses. Creating your own CSA is rather easy. The first thing you need to do is contact some local farms and find out what types of products they can offer your group. Decide if you will be dealing with just fruits and vegetables or if you want fresh meats too. Read the rest of this entry »

Battling the Bugs: Controlling Insects Naturally

If you-re an organic gardener, you may find yourself overrun by bugs eating your plants. You don-t want to use harmful chemicals to keep them away. Don-t worry; there are plenty of natural methods of pest control.

For instance, you can stop slugs in your garden by putting out a small can and filling it with beer. Sounds silly, but slugs are actually attracted to the beer. They-ll climb in the Read the rest of this entry »