Posts Tagged ‘green living’

Baby Steps to Urban Homesteading

These past few years, city life has become painfully stressful for humans that most of us suffering from the everyday hazards of it have started to look for healthier alternatives we can do right in the comfort of our homes. Some even went as far as purchasing a piece of land somewhere far from the [...]

Start Your Own Bee Farm

Looking for a backyard business with a good ROI? If you are not allergic to bee stings and you’re not afraid to get up close and personal with these honey-making high flyers, then this business is for you. Bee farms are income generating, very ideal if you only have a little piece of land to [...]

Profitable Forest Farming

In forest farming, a farmer is not only harvesting nature’s gift for his own good but also helps the forest maintain its natural health and balance. Actually, helping the existing ecosystem is the first and foremost concern of all forest farmers and forest farming communities, as well as those organizations assisting them in proper forest [...]

How Microfarming Can Help You

Living in the suburbs has its own pros and cons; the same way when you are residing in the city where lots are limited and not too conducive for farming. This apparently is the problem for most city dwellers who crave farm life where you harvest your own crops and experience the joys of maintaining [...]

The Macrobiotic Diet

The macrobiotic diet has been around for a long time now as it was popular back then during Hippocrates time. By the way, Hippocrates is the father of Western medicine. Macrobiotic diet was also popular during pre-historic times in China and Japan. Macrobiotic diet is included in the Traditional Chinese Medicine methods. TCM is a [...]

An Organic Lifestyle

People around the world recently celebrated Earth Day.  Each year we commemorate Earth Day not only to celebrate the wonders of our planet but also to promote its fragile health.  Because we only have the Earth to live on, we should not only take care of it for the future generation but because it is [...]

Oil Input in Agriculture

The recent worldwide increase in the price of liquid fuels (petrol and diesel etc.) has implications for all walks of life including the agricultural sector. Being the most popular form of energy that drives the mechanical means of production and other agricultural activities (supplying and processing etc), oil is an important form of input energy [...]

Growing in Wisdom with Organic Farming

Healthy food and eco-friendly production account for the increasing popularity of organic farming in modern societies. What is more is that farmers in an organic farming community get a better know-how of the way nature works. Such techniques of natural farming probably originated in the earliest horticultural societies and were common knowledge in subsequent agricultural [...]

Living by Agriculture

Agricultural practice is generally believed to have started around ten thousand years (BC), first on a small scale and then, around 5500 BC, practiced as intensive farming. Archeological evidence suggests that the transition from hunting-gathering to agricultural societies was gradual and, in some regions, developed almost independently including the Babylon, Syria, India, and China. Developed [...]

Environment and Food Safety

Natural environment and health are closely related, not only through air and water that may carry pathogenic microbes but also through eatables. That food is affected by changes in our environment is not something new to learn. Humans have experienced food spoilage in damp and hot surroundings since antiquity and a number of preventive techniques [...]

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