Easiest Vegetables To Grow: Top 5 Garden Veggies Most Recommended By Experts

February 23, 2023 Home And Garden

By Stephanie Vallette Interested in starting a vegetable garden? There are many easy-to-grow options that are perfect for beginners. It’s not only a fun and tasty hobby, but studies often point to the amazing benefits you get from spending time outside and connecting with nature. So, if you’re ready to find out where to start, […]

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Easy First Steps In Acquiring Carpentry Skills

February 3, 2023 Home And Garden

By Neenah Payne Four guys in my community garden in Brooklyn, NY are outstanding carpenters. However, it had never occurred to me that I, as a woman, could learn to be a carpenter since I had never seen a woman carpenter. When I was in school, “Shop” was taught to guys and “Home Ec” was […]

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Best Healthy Cooking Oils: Top 5 Types Most Recommended For Meal Prep

January 15, 2023 Home And Garden

By Melissa Kraus With all of the rapid-fire innovation in healthy cooking methods, tips, and products today, keeping up with the trends is hard enough when trying to be maintain healthy habits. There are ways to follow clean eating down to what type of cooking oil you use. Want to find the best cooking oil […]

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Why Gardening Could Save Your Life: Having a Green Thumb Could Keep Cancer Away, Benefits Mental Health

January 10, 2023 Home And Garden

By Study Finds Studies often point to the amazing benefits from spending time outside and connecting with nature. Here’s one more fantastic reason to put the smartphone down and enjoy the great outdoors. A new study reports that gardening could help reduce the risk of cancer, boost mental health and bring communities together. Scientists say […]

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Inflation Priorities: 8 in 10 Americans Have Cut Spending — But Not On Their Health

December 18, 2022 Home And Garden

By Chris Melore Eight in 10 people have cut down on their general spending within the last six months (81%). A poll of 2,000 U.S. adults reports that three in four have been affected by inflation, with those feeling the financial strain reducing their spending on shopping (70%), entertainment (59%), and food (58%) the most. However, […]

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Merry Frugal Christmas: How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Going Broke

December 17, 2022 Home And Garden

By Daisy Luther Everyone knows the story of Cinderella and the ball. Everything about it was magical. She had a fancy dress, a fairy godmother gave her a makeover, and she was whisked away in a luxurious mode of transportation to attend the elegant event of her dreams. But at midnight, she ran out and […]

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Common Chemical in Household Products Found in Sewage — May be Causing Rise in Antibiotic Resistance

November 2, 2022 Home And Garden

By Chris Melore A common, bacteria-fighting ingredient in soaps, toothpastes, and cleaning products may be the reason for the recent increase in antibiotic-resistant germs. Researchers from the University of Toronto discovered that triclosan is the predominant antibiotic sitting in Canada’s sewage sludge. With so much of the chemical floating around in local water treatment plants, […]

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Scientists Develop Furniture That Assembles Itself Once Out of the Package

August 23, 2022 Home And Garden

By Study Finds The pain could finally be taken out of those tricky furniture shipments that arrive flat and require you to decipher poorly-written assembly instructions. That’s because scientists are developing innovative chairs and tables that assemble themselves after being removed from their packaging. This next generation of flat-pack technology “shape shifts” into its final […]

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Houseplants Don’t Just Look Nice – They Can Also Give Your Mental Health A Boost

August 1, 2022 Home And Garden

By Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui, University of Sheffield For those of us without access to outside green space, houseplants are a stylish and affordable way of getting a nature fix. Alongside looking nice, indoor plants actually have several other perks – the biggest benefit of which could be improving your mental health. And the good news […]

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Green Thumb, Less Blues: Study Finds Gardening Benefits Mental Health

July 9, 2022 Home And Garden

By John Anderer If you’ve been feeling down lately, or particularly stressed out, researchers from the University of Florida suggest getting more hands-on with nature. Their study finds gardening helped lower stress, anxiety, and depression among a group of healthy women attending twice-weekly gardening classes. Even better, you don’t have to be an experienced gardening […]

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Your Garden Will Suffer If Your Plants Don’t Have These Secondary Nutrients

June 23, 2022 Home And Garden

By Amy Allen We’ve talked a bit in the past about how nutrient deficiencies can devastate your garden. And that’s absolutely true. But, we only talked about the heavy hitters then. Secondary nutrients – if your plants don’t have enough of them – can wreck your garden just as easily. Just what are these secondary […]

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Is There Medicine Growing in Your Backyard?

June 21, 2022 Home And Garden

By Jeremiah Johnson Are there medicines in your backyard? Absolutely, but to determine what they are, you first must understand the practice of herbalism. Herbalism is the forerunner to modern pharmaceutical medicine. One of the main principles of it that should be taken to heart was expostulated by Nicholas Culpepper the author of the Materia […]

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Elderly Folks Who “live in place” Have Better Health, Longer Lifespan than Nursing Home Residents

May 30, 2022 Health And Wellness,Home And Garden,Video

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira COLUMBIA, Mo. — As people get older, it might get harder to do everyday activities such as cooking or driving. If a person is unable to take care of themselves, they may need to move into a nursing home or assisted-living facility for extra help. However, new research suggests people who live […]

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The Many Benefits Of Starting An Herb Garden

April 14, 2022 Home And Garden

By Sara Tipton Herbs are great to have on hand, but not just for culinary purposes, although they can make food taste wonderful. Herbs are also important natural remedies and can be used as medicine, especially during a crisis. Planting an herb garden so you can benefit from its natural remedies can also be highly […]

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The Growing Importance of Creating Your Own Fertilizer

February 5, 2022 Home And Garden

By Joanna Miller We’ve all been watching prices climb at the grocery stores, and it’s only getting worse. There are issues at every level of food production and distribution. Certain kinds of mandates have made it more difficult for truckers to do their job. Meat processors had to add a variety of safety protocols and […]

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Teaching Self-Sufficiency to Our Kids Via Gardening

February 3, 2022 Home And Garden

By J.G. Martinez Being a conscientious dad, I have always believed that education and experience are the best assets to leave our kids. Of course, I do not mean just regular, institutional education. I mean, teaching self-sufficiency to our children. Public school tends not to do that.  And I believe part of that education revolves […]

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Easy Shiitake and Lion’s Mane Mushroom Production

January 28, 2022 Home And Garden

By Jayne Rising My mushroom cultivation experiments with shiitake and lion’s mane are proceeding apace, so I thought I’d write to update interested parties. In this article I’ll discuss what’s worked so far, what hasn’t worked, and how I plan to progress. Right now I’m growing shiitake and lion’s mane mushrooms. For one thing, as […]

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Survival Gardening with David the Good – Ice Age Farmer Broadcast (part one)

January 28, 2022 Home And Garden,Video

By The Ice Age Farmer Mega interview with David the Good of the Survival Gardening channel! In this first part, we cover the priorities that help frame one’s approach to a survival garden. And while many people get caught up in different techniques and dogma, we stress the importance of just getting started, focusing on […]

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Urban Gardens are a Dependable Food Source for Pollinators Through the Year, Study Suggests

January 5, 2022 Home And Garden

University of Bristol Despite huge garden-to-garden variation in both the quantity and timing of nectar production, pollinators are guaranteed a reliable food supply if they visit multiple gardens. This contrasts with previous studies on farmland, where pollinators are exposed to boom-and-bust cycles of nectar production with clear seasonal gaps. This means the actions of many […]

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Old-Fashioned Pest Management: A Skill You’d Better Learn Fast

December 19, 2021 Home And Garden

By Jayne Rising Old-fashioned pest management is yet another topic that is going to prove vital knowledge in the very near future. With supply chain disruptions causing shortages in everything from fertilizer to semiconductors, it’s an easy bet that we’ll be seeing shortages of various pest management products in the near future as well. Even […]

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