Making a Beautiful Garden a Food Forest (part one)

Everyone has a dream to walk out their door and pick delicious things to serve their family.  The reality can be harder and takes a bit of planning.  BUT there is good news... there are simple things you CAN do that make your regular gardening and landscaping take on part of the work.



We have heirloom Pears that survived fordecades on very little care. 

Start with Fruit Trees

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Free Download, Great Healthy Cookbook answers How to eat on $4. a day

We love this Wonderful FREE cookbook

Occasionally we return to things we have found very handy.  Case in point is this amazing Free Cookbook from Leanne Brown.   Not only is she a remarkable chef, she answered a very important question for everyone who is part of the safe food movement OR who is on a limited budget.  What can you do with a $4.00 a day food budget?     Hat tip  -  she figured

The Dollars and Cents of Growing your own Strawberries

Strawberries are one of the easiest plants to grow.  They are perennial and will produce year after year with a minimum of fuss.  Most important?  They are a huge money saver for a family....Did you know that  25 plants will produce over 30 pounds of strawberries a year ?   Do the math.  Three 6 packs of organic strawberries will cost about 2.50 -3.50/pack  and 30 pounds of strawberries at 3.00

This Family ate Only Organic for Two Weeks... Watch What Happened

This  powerful 2 min video shows a family who was not eating organic due to cost.   They switched as part of a study to see what would happened to them after just 2 weeks of organic only.





This study was done by the Swedish Environmental Research Institure and the report is here https://www.coop.se/organiceffect


Watch this for your family... you will be shocked.

Small Farms Are Better For Food Security and Biodiversity

We often assume the only way to feed the world’s rapidly growing human population is with large-scale industrial agriculture. Many would argue that genetically altering food crops is also necessary to produce large enough quantities on smaller areas to feed the world’s people.









But recent scientific research is challenging those assumptions. Our global approaches to agriculture are

Do you Know this List of 7 Foods that will Keep you Young?

Looking young seems to be a foremost priority of the over 30 crowd these days. Not just women, even men are wary of aging and hollywood only encourages this preoccupation. Instead of resorting to botox, plastic surgery or using the number of anti-aging chemical creams that have flooded the markets, one can go the natural route and opt for fruits and vegetables to help fight all age-related

Stop Consuming These 7 Foods Today

If just one quarter of developed nations would stop consuming the following seven foods, the incidence of obesity and preventable disease would drop more than 50 percent. These foods are toxic to the body, offer no nutritional value and create systemic inflammation making their consumption precursors to auto-immune and other diseases. 





7 FOODS TO STOP CONSUMING1. WheatThere are many

Turns out Two Apples a Day are More Effective At Reducing Heart Disease Than Statin Medications

More evidence continues to surface supporting the superior effectiveness of nature's foods over medication in preventing disease. New research shows that just two apples a day could help protect women against heart disease lowering blood fat levels by almost 25 percent, a claim unattainable by cardiovascular prescription medications.



Scientists found apples significantly lowered blood fat

How Do Typical School Lunches Served In Other Countries Compare To The U.S? Photos From Around The Globe

Did you know that on a typical day, 32 million children in the U.S. eat cafeteria food? Or that most of these students consume over half of their daily calories at school? Parents could model better eating habits and stock their crispers with fresh fruit and vegetables, but a viable starter solution might begin at lunchtime. Sweetgreen, a healthy quick-serve restaurant that values local and

Increase Your Intake of Broccoli To Boost Your Immunity This Winter

From optimal brain function to muscle growth, broccoli is a power-packed vegetable. Interesting in preventing colds? Compounds inside broccoli can block viruses from reproducing by an amazing 99.9 percent--essentially 100 percent effectiveness. 





Broccoli has a reservoir of phytochemicals like glucosinolates, sulphoraphane (sulphur compounds), carotenoids, and flavonoids that play a key

Just One Look At The Ingredients In Fruit Roll-Ups Will Convince You To Make Your Own

Fruit Roll-ups are a popular snack made famous by General Mills and distributed by the Betty Crocker brand. They've been heavily marketed to children since the 1980s using tag lines such as "real fruit and fun." Unfortunately, the manufacturer's play on words are very deceptive to the consumer and there's nothing "real" inside the snack. General Mills lost its motion to dismiss a lawsuit

Salmon and Omega-3's

Getting enough omega-3 fatty acids is essential if you are fighting inflammation. 





Here's how it works. Our bodies need both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.  And in fact, we do actually need to have more omega-6s than omega-3s, by about 4:1.  Somewhere between 1:1 and 4:1 is the balanced ratio that keeps inflammation at bay.  However, our modern diets deliver proportionally way more

What is this "inflammation" we keep talking about?

You may have noticed that we are often talking about a disease preventing and healing anti-inflammation diet. 





You may be wondering, just what is inflammation?

First of all, we're not referring to the inflammation you get, for example, when you cut your finger and it gets red and swollen and slightly inflamed or infected.When we speak about inflammation, we speak about the

Organic Vegetables Are More Nutritious Due To An Environment That Forces Survival

Laziness makes people more lethargic, decreases their ability to metabolize nutrients and leads to a general state of unhealthiness. The same applies to the plant world. When we raise crops on conventional farms riddled with pesticides and shelter them from what we consider to be harmful elements, their nutritional content decreases and we end up with an inferior plant kingdom that can no

Autism Now Officially 1 in 68 Children, Up 30 Percent From Just Two Years Ago

In 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that there were 1 in 88 children in the United States who had autism spectrum disorder (ASD). That represented an almost a 1000% increase since the 1980s. There is now 1 in 68 children who have ASD, a 30% increase from just two years ago, according to a new report released by the CDC.

What Does The Official Data Say? In 2007, the

What does it mean to Eat Seasonally?

What is seasonal produce anyway?


 




I try to eat seasonal.  I don't know how easy it is for you to get local produce in winter.  For me, living high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, there's really not any "local" winter produce, Of course there's not really any "local" summer produce either, unless you count pine nuts.  However, we are only an hour and a half away from California's Central

5 Trends You Will See Intensify in 2015

We are creatures of habit and when things go wrong we play the blame game, whether it be directed to ourselves or others. The coming year will be shaped by an increased sense of personal responsibility and rising numbers of people divided on critical issues related to our food supply, our water, our medicine, our health and the planet itself. 








All nations on Earth are now living in the

1 In 2 Children Will Have Autism by 2025, Warns Senior MIT Scientist

The overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide on our food is causing glyphosate toxicity and it is now being considered as the single most important factor in development of autism and other chronic disease. At a recent panel discussion about GMOs, a senior scientist has stated that one in two children will be autistic by 2025. 


Glyphosate does induce disease and is a "textbook example of

We're Eating Only Grass-Fed Meats These Days...and They're Getting Easier to Find

Because I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains, my local Farmer's Market
is only open June through September.  We have a vendor at our market who
raises grass-fed beef about an hour north of us. It's delicious, but
expensive.  Even so, I feel it's worth it, during the months that I can
get it.



Thompson Valley Ranch, my Farmer's Market source for grass-fed beef.


The rest of the year,

Citrus Juices Found To Contain Antioxidant Capacities Ten Times Higher Than Previously Measured

The antioxidant activity of citrus juices and
other foods is undervalued. A new technique developed by researchers
from the University of Granada for measuring this property generates
values that are ten times higher than those indicated by current
analysis methods. The results suggest that tables on the antioxidant
capacities of food products that dieticians and health