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Can A Home Garden Produce Enough Food To Live On?

Obviously, how much food you need and can grow will depend on a variety of factors, space being just one of them.  You will also need to take into consideration the size of your family and how much food they actually require. A large man will eat quite a bit more than a 5-year-old girl, however, that girl will also grow to consume more.  These are a few factors to keep in mind when beginning to consider self-sufficiency. You should also consider the climate in which you live.

By | 2018-10-12T06:05:22-04:00 October 13th, 2018|Food, Gardening, Homesteading, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Can A Home Garden Produce Enough Food To Live On?
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Just 10 Streams Carry 95 Percent of Plastic Into Oceans

In a book on the topic titled "Freshwater Microplastics: Emerging Environmental Contaminants?" Wagner points out that there are more than 5,300 grades of synthetic polymers, each with different physicochemical properties. As such, each is likely to exert very unique effects once in the environment.

By | 2018-10-12T05:57:52-04:00 October 12th, 2018|Environment, News, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Just 10 Streams Carry 95 Percent of Plastic Into Oceans
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How We Can Turn Plastic Waste Into Energy

Cold plasma is unique because it mainly produces hot (highly energetic) electrons – these particles are great for breaking down the chemical bonds of plastics. Electricity for generating the cold plasma could be sourced from renewables, with the chemical products derived from the process used as a form of energy storage: where the energy is kept in a different form to be used later.

By | 2018-10-08T06:00:47-04:00 October 9th, 2018|Environment, No SF|Comments Off on How We Can Turn Plastic Waste Into Energy
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Study Finds Disinfectant Cleaners May Alter Children’s Gut Microbiome

We found that infants living in households with disinfectants being used at least weekly were twice as likely to have higher levels of the gut microbes Lachnospiraceae at age 3-4 months; when they were 3 years old, their body mass index was higher than children not exposed to heavy home use of disinfectants as an infant

By | 2018-10-08T05:52:44-04:00 October 8th, 2018|Kids, Natural Health, News, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Study Finds Disinfectant Cleaners May Alter Children’s Gut Microbiome
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How to Make Hummus

The actual origin of the dish has been lost in the passage of time, and several countries have claimed that they invented hummus. Egypt and Greece, for example, were major trading partners during ancient times, which led to both of them greatly utilizing hummus in their cooking.

By | 2018-10-05T04:01:28-04:00 October 6th, 2018|Food, No SF, Recipes, Resyndicated|Comments Off on How to Make Hummus
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