Back To Basics: How To Make Sugar At Home
One of the best bartering products when SHTF is undoubtedly going to be sugar. It will also be a great product to have in order to make treats that boost morale and lend a sense of normalcy to life, which will be crucial to survival. [...]
Homemade Probiotic Salsa Verde Recipe
I love a good salsa verde sauce, especially over enchiladas. In my quest to eliminate commercial bought products and make my own healthier foods, I decided to try my hand at [...]
Minnesota organic farm profit rises sharply
Profits at Minnesota's organic farms made a big jump in 2012.
A report released Tuesday by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the University of Minnesota's Center [...]
GMOs explained – a public service announcement from the Health Ranger / Natural News
This short, 3-minute video is the perfect way to introduce new people to the subject of GMOs. [...]
Hedge Funds, Insider Traders Begin Dumping Monsanto Stock as Reality of GMOs Sinks In Across Wall Street
Monsanto executives and insiders are dumping Monsanto stock in record volumes, sending the stock price spiraling downward. CEO Hugh Grant just sold off 40,000 shares at [...]
Frugal Foraging – Three Wild Mushrooms I Have Loved
Having spent three years living wild in the woodlands close to the Daniel Boone National Forest in Northeast Kentucky, I rediscovered some of the Earth’s bounty that [...]
Home Grind – The Art Of Making Your Own Flour
Another quite small and frugal tool that can provide health benefits far beyond the modest monetary savings that can be had, is the grain mill. This simple grinder turns [...]
Food Storage; Cheese
Most of us love cheese. I know I do! We buy a lot of cheese in our house and keep it in our deep freezer. Store bought, cold cheese can stay in your freezer for about 3 months [...]
Sugar in Your Pantry?
Sugar In Your Pantry or Not? There may be two drastically different ways of viewing sugars today. One could be caused by the economy and the skyrocketing prices, where you [...]
Preparing Canned Onions
Onions are a staple ingredient in many recipes. Their savory flavor often is the finishing touch to your favorite meal. Canning and preserving onions leaves them soft but [...]
How to Can Fresh Green Beans
Garden fresh green beans are a staple for any pantry. When you can green, string, Italian, or wax beans, select beans that are tender and small. Remove the ends and strings [...]
Key Tricks for Mastering Canning and Preserving
Canning and preserving methods are simple and safe, and can produce food that’s nutritious and delicious. Mastering the techniques and becoming a successful food preserver [...]
Markets Bring Greens to Consumers, Greenbelts to Cities, Green to Farmers
Nothing says late summer like a farmers market, where a cornucopia of produce overflows to delight the taste buds and other senses -- juicy tomatoes and peaches bursting with [...]
Certified Naturally Grown: More farmers are using an alternative label to organic
SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. -- Justine and Brian Denison say they adhere to all the growing practices required for organic certification, yet if they label their beans and tomatoes [...]
The GM safety dance: What’s rule and what’s real
In my initial foray in this series looking for facts behind the rhetoric on transgenic food, I reasoned that, since we can’t eliminate risk, we’d better have the right [...]
Genetically modified seed research: What’s locked and what isn’t
In the next few posts, I’m going to look at intellectual property rights in biotechnology and corporate influence over science. There are huge, philosophical issues to [...]
CAPLAN: GMO Crops versus Traditional Plant Breeding
I got into a friendly discussion about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with some friends on Facebook over the weekend. Readers urged me to write a short article about [...]
How Genetically Engineered Foods Will Be Eradicated
We’re in really exciting times with regards to shifting the tide against genetically engineered (GE) foods and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
As you know, I [...]
Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of how Pringles are Made
To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way. The Pringles Company (in an [...]
McDonald’s McRib Sandwich a Franken Creation of GMOs, Toxic Ingredients, Banned Ingredients
It’s ‘McRib season’, and thousands across the nation are scrambling to use online websites like the ‘McRib locator‘ to stuff the McDonald’s McRib sandwich down [...]
Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over
Are you still eating sushi or any seafood from the Pacific Ocean? Well you might want to reconsider after reading this article. When it comes to environmental disasters, [...]