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Category Archives: plants
Low-BROW: gluten-free food
Reducing or eliminating gluten from your diet is a tough business. But there are more gluten-free foods available. Continue reading
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Soil Food Web Course & Treeplanting Support
News from greenfriends.org in the USA of a course by Dr. Elaine Ingham on Compost Tea and the Soil Food Web. Continue reading
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Extract from Fukuoka’s ‘The One-Straw Revolution’
Fukuoka’s book on natural farming without digging or adding manure. “Leaning against the long handle of my scythe, …I wonder how it is that people’s philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons.”
“To the extent that people separate themselves from nature, they spin out further and further from the centre.” Continue reading
Posted in Growing vegetables, India, Nature, Organic gardening, plants
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Restrictions on herbal medicine
Directive 2004/24/EC will dramatically curtail the use of natural remedies used all over the world for thousands of years. Continue reading
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Plants purify water
French scientists are investigating the ways plants can be used to purify water [from the Guardian Weekly 14/1/11], using plant fibres in the roots to digest or trap contaminants. See Flickr pages 1 & 2. Compare the way nettle … Continue reading
Aloe vera health benefits
A lot of claims are made for the health benefits of drinking the juice of the aloe vera plant. What do readers think? See also these Aloe vera juice recipes.
Organic Revolution!
This is the title of a recent book by Bharat Mansata, published by Earthcare Books of Kolkata. Can you guess which country it is about? Here are some clues:- It used to be famous for sugar and tobacco; Beginning in … Continue reading
Posted in forest, Growing vegetables, Organic gardening, Planting trees, plants
Tagged book, Cuba, Organic gardening, revolution
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Introduction to Forest Gardening
Forest Gardening is a way of growing food based on combining plants together in woodland-like patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden eco-system that is abundant and diverse. This workshop will introduce participants to the basic principles of … Continue reading
Posted in forest, Gardening, Growing vegetables, Nature, Organic gardening, Planting trees, plants
Tagged apples, damsons, forest gardening, fruit, green spaces, orchards, permaculture, Planting trees, raspberries, wildlife
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Prayer for the Gulf of Mexico
from: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/dr.emotos_message_2.html Dr. Masaru Emoto, the scientist from Japan who has done extensive research about the characteristics of water and how, among other things, water physically responds to emotions, has proposed a prayer for the Gulf situation ending with the … Continue reading
Aloe vera plants – division of babies
I was given an aloe vera plant which has grown happily on the window sill away from direct sun; and after about a year or so it has developed two baby plants. Here are the pictures of the repotting operation, … Continue reading
