Posts Tagged ‘food’
The Darkside of Turf Lawn and 8 Amazing Alternatives
Why have a monocrop grass lawn when you can use different plants that you’ll never have to mow again? With a passion unmatched in other countries, American’s water, spray, weed, and mow between 35 million – 50 million acres of lawn, all without suspecting any negative impact on their health or environmental health. In his…
Read MoreThere Is A Huge Underground Farm Hiding 100 Feet Beneath London’s Streets
It’s hard to find enough space for urban farms to grow enough local produce to feed a big city. Unless you put the whole farm below in an abandoned tunnel. The newest branch line of the London Underground doesn’t go anywhere. But it does produce a lot of nice food to eat. It’s a hydroponic…
Read MoreHydroponics: 90% Less Water Than Conventional Farming
As rising food costs become an increasing burden on people’s lives, more people are seeking ways to grow food for themselves in inexpensive and sustainable ways. Hydroponics is gardening without soil, where plants are placed in a growing medium and nutrients are fed to the roots directly from water. Not only can you save money…
Read MoreGreen Bronx Machine Transforms Kids Lives with Urban Agriculture
Amidst New York City’s South Bronx—a place traditionally rife with gang activity, poverty and crime— a thriving population of young urban farmers are greening and beautifying neighborhoods, growing healthy food and providing it to people in need. This is the Green Bronx Machine—led by Stephen Ritz, one very inspiring man. “We are growing ourselves into…
Read MoreWill Work for Sugar: Mycorrhizae Dramatically Increases Plant Growth and Yields
Mycorrhizae are a soil fungi which symbiotically colonize plant roots, increasing their root system several hundred to several thousand times. By extending their fungal root systems deeper into the soil, they dramatically enhance a plant’s ability to absorb water and other nutrients. In exchange for sugar from plant leaves, mycorrhizae transport nutrients and water to…
Read MoreStudy: Chocolate Melts Fat and Provides Significant Health Benefits
The saturated cocoa butter contained in chocolate is highly stable and a powerful metabolic enhancer that can help you lose weight. A new observational study published in the journal Nutrition, confirms that chocolate consumption may have significant health benefits. The European study titled, “Association between chocolate consumption and fatness in European adolescents,” found a higher…
Read MoreTurmeric Alternative Cancer Treatment: Your Complete Guide
“Curcumin acts against transcription factors, which are like a master switch. Transcription factors regulate all the genes needed for tumors to form. When we turn them off, we shut down some genes that are involved in the growth and invasion of cancer cells.” – Bharat Aggarwal Turmeric is an orange-colored Indian spice that has been…
Read MoreSchool Garden Programs ‘Sprouting Up’ in Toronto and All Across the World
Students learn more than horticulture when they get their hands dirty. Red and yellow tulips are blooming at Winchester Public School in downtown Toronto, but that’s not all that is growing there. Students are planting radishes, spinach, parsley, carrots and mouse melons, too. Composting is the lesson for the day in this large food garden. “The worms…
Read MoreA Raw Carrot a Day Keeps the Toxins Away
A raw carrot a day keeps the toxins away. Root vegetables such as carrots protect themselves from bacteria and fungus in the soil by creating their own antifungal and germicidal agents. Raw carrots are a medicinal, healing food because the long carrot fibers attach to Endotoxins, bacteria and estrogens (that have been detoxed by the…
Read MoreThe Effects of Endotoxin in the Human Body
You’re about to learn how eating raw vegetables and other starchy foods produce poisons in your gut that can damage your metabolism and overall health. The human digestive system can digest many foods, but there are some foods that it cannot digest. A cow eat’s grass because it has rumen designed to digest cellulose, whereas…
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