Posts Tagged ‘organic’
333 Remarkable Uses for Coconut Oil
“One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.” – Marco Polo Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available and completely natural. Before we get to the 333 uses for coconut oi, I wanted to mention some of its remarkable health benefits so you can…
Read MoreStudy: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost
In potentially “the most important agricultural study this year,” researchers find that sustainable farming methods can help conventional agriculture “shed much of its chemical use,” according to New York Times writer and food author Mark Bittman. The Marsden Farm study, conducted by a team of government and university researchers, is a large-scale, long-term experiment that…
Read More3D Printed ‘Living Food’ Designed and Printed by The Edible Growth Project
Chloe’s 3D printed structures are made from a paste of living organisms including seeds, spores and yeast, which then grow and fully develop in about 5 days. The idea of 3D-printing food comes across at first as odd and a bit zealous to think humans can out-perform nature, but when you watch Chloé Rutzerveld 3D-Print…
Read MoreUN Official: We Have Only 60 Years of Farming Left Unless We Switch to Regenerative Agriculture
According to a senior UN official, if the current rates of soil degradation continue, all of the world’s topsoil could be gone within 50 years. The Food and Agriculture Organization has reported that unless we adopt new approaches to growing food, such as organic and permaculture principles, the global amount of land suitable for food…
Read MoreWatch this 11-Year-Old Expose Monsanto and the Industrialized Food System (VIDEO)
Children are the future of the world, and as 11-year-old Birke Baehr verbally overthrows Monsanto and the industrialized food system, that future just got a little brighter. Birke Baehr wants us to know how our food is made, where it comes from, and what is in it. Heard around the world, Birke’s speech included his…
Read MoreIncredible Food Forest has Over 150 Types of Fruits and Vegetables on 1/4 Acre of Land
Longtime gardener and permaculture educator Dr. Bob Randall has a created a food forest, just outside his front door, that produces 90% of the food he consumes. In a world where the front and back yards of the majority of homes are being used to grow inedible grass, wasting gas, fertilizer, and the time it…
Read MoreHospital in Pennsylvania Using Organic Produce to Heal Patients
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food” is what founder of modern medicine Hippocrates said way back in 431 B.C. Today a Pennsylvania hospital is doing exactly that, healing patients by feeding them organic produce during their stay. Despite the founder of modern medicine urging the use of food as medicine, here we…
Read MoreCan Human Urine Replace Chemical Fertilizers?
The Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont, is likely the only organization measuring success in gallons of urine. In 2012, Kim Nace, Rich Earth’s administrative director and partner Abe Noe-Hays collected 600 gallons of urine from friends and neighbors. The next year, the organization brought in about 3,000 gallons from 170 human volunteers. Rebecca Rueter,…
Read MoreTop 10 Most Amazing Vertical Farms in the World
If you run out of space horizontally, then grow your food vertically. That’s what these 10 vertical farms from across the world are doing. An estimated 80% of the earth’s population will live in cities by the year 2050, and to meet the increasing demand for food, urban vertical farms are sprouting up around the…
Read MoreSan Francisco Mom’s Itty Bitty Farm Grows Vegetables, Chickens and Goats
Tired of the confusing and misleading labels on food in the supermarket? San Francisco mom Heidi Kooy started her own backyard farm, growing a variety of organic vegetables, and raising chickens and goats for their nourishing eggs and dairy. Learning as they went along, Heidi and her daughter began with a 350 square foot garden…
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