Tag: organic

Richard Feynman-The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out 50-minute interview. Nobel Prize winning physicist Feynman is a delightful source of stories and insights. He understands science in its most fundamental and thrilling aspects. He discusses the dark side of his career, too, contributing to the development of the atomic bomb that eventually destroyed Hiroshima. On a […]

No Dig Abundance A beautiful vegetable garden created organically by Charles Dowding, with no digging involved. The process is deceptively simple. Apply manure to the desired garden plot, cover it with plastic film, let it sit for a year, and voilá, you’ve got a rich organic garden. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

BT (Brian Transeau) in Better Living Through Circuitry. BT discusses the similarities between indigenous cultural rhythms and visual stimuli and contemporary music gatherings using strobes and rhythms, both with the characteristic effect of entraining the brain. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Ronnie Cummins of Turning the Tide Against Monsanto! GMO labeling legislation failed because massive infusions of money from mega-corporations. But the issue is now alive in all the states and even legislators are getting on board. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

A complete step-by-step guide to restoring your health and/or staying healthy. This is a lengthy article chock full of good advice on how to be healthy. Written by Michael Edwards, founder of Organic Lifestyle magazine. Michael once weighed 360 pounds and suffered from numerous ailments. Now he’s a proponent of alternate medicine and the organic […]

Did you know that broccoli was invented by human beings? Not that it required cloning or chemicals or GMOs or such but if you start with wild kale and select traits you want, like larger, tastier flower buds you encourage it. And so on. Do this long enough and you’ll have broccoli. Or just drive […]

I remember when the USSR was going strong that their collective farms were producing only a small percentage of food and the vast majority of their food came from small organic farmers. Guess what? Once again, the Russians are proving that small-scale organic gardening can feed the world. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

On January 26th, a Saturday, we went to the Port Washington Farmers Market to shoot some video. The winter market is held indoors until spring, at the First Congregational Church. It drew quite a crowd. Our friend Pat Wilborn created the event three years ago, along with his wife, Amy, and it’s now showing signs […]

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” ~a pithicism~ “One man’s hoarding is another man’s sustainability. This goes for women, too.” ~Two-bit Guru~ I was thinking about some of the habits of my sustainable lifestyle. Trash picking, recycling, upcycling, saving jars (with and without lids), saving nails, bolts, and screws, composting, saving cardboard boxes,  making […]

Two-bit Guru | Give 'n Take | Photo of a weed in the foreground with pole beans in the background getting ready to harvest

“Giving, in all its forms, might be the key to creating heaven on this earth” ~Two-bit Guru~ Throughout the growing season the earth gives us gifts: peas and lettuce early, potatoes and dry beans near the end, but if we didn’t give to the earth along the way, the harvest wouldn’t be nearly as abundant, […]