Big news from Big Pharma yesterday that statin drugs given to healthy people reduce the likelihood of heart attack or stroke by 50%!!! Amazing!!! A medical miracle!!! Or maybe not….
Dr. John McDougall once again debunks the “research” on this one. Funded by AstraZeneca, maker of Crestor, and written by Dr. Paul M. Ridker, patent-holder of [...]
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Plant-based diet is safer, more effective than drugs
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged astrazeneca, big pharma, crestor, crestor research, john mcdougall, plant based diet, prescription drugs, prevent heart attack, prevent stroke, statin side effects on November 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The garden matures
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged gardening, organic gardening, raised beds, square foot gardens, squash bugs, tomatoes, vegetable garden on August 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Our first summer of vegetable gardening has been a rewarding experience for Chuck and me. It’s sort of like being first time parents…you start out reading every book you can get your hands on…you’re a little tense and nervous about doing the wrong thing…and then finally you put up the books and follow your [...]
Picking and freezing blueberries
Posted in food, garden, simple things, tagged blueberries, blueberry farm, freezing blueberries, picking blueberries, simple life on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Friday morning Chuck and I made the short trip to Allen’s farm to pick blueberries. We bought a small chest freezer the day before and couldn’t wait to fill it with summer goodies we could enjoy all winter long. Chuck and I had never even seen a blueberry bush, much less picked them…so [...]
Home gardens are growing!
Posted in do-it-ourselves, environment, food, garden, vegetables, tagged backyard gardens, food and economy, grow food to save money, grow your own food, home gardens, new york times, urban gardens on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Washington Post has a great article about the increase in the number of backyard gardeners in the US. Seems that seed sales have gone up dramatically as Americans plant and grow their own food. Reasons for the increase: the economy, concerns about where food comes from, concerns about food quality, and [...]
Today’s garden harvest is tonight’s dinner
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged carrots, corn, eating from the garden, from garden to table, garden harvest, summer harvest, tomatoes, trionfo violetto beans on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today we harvested tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, beans, and parsley from the garden. Add the corn from the Nobles’ garden, along with tomatoes, snap beans, and peaches from the Haskins’ farm, and we had a veritable feast laid out before us. Here’s what we finally decided on for dinner:
Trionfo violetto beans. They grow [...]
Expanding the garden subsistence style
Posted in food, garden, simple things, vegetables, tagged double digging, garden, hand-tilling, handturning, new garden plot, preparing the soil, soil, subsistence farming on June 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You may have read about the problem we had with our raised beds — the mulch underneath the beds was holding water like a sponge making the beds too wet. We fixed that problem as much as we can, but decided to plant more crops around the perimeter of the garden. Then, we [...]
“I’m too tired to go to the grocery” salad
Posted in food, vegetables, tagged recipe, roasted veggies, salad, vegetarian recipe on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” She’s probably also the mother of a lot of last minute dinners! I needed to take a salad to church, but it was late and I was too tired to run to the grocery. I had lettuce from our garden, but was missing [...]
Back to the rhythm of ordinary
Posted in animals, food, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged bluebirds, community center, gardening, herb garden, honey, local produce, rat snakes, small town homestead, strawberries, vegetable gardening on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What a week this has been! Last Saturday, after picking up some homegrown strawberries and honey from the bees of our friends, Carson and Jean, we spent the afternoon working in the garden. That evening we checked our bluebird box where a bluebird couple was raising a batch of 4 new babies. As Debbie [...]
First harvest of the season!
Posted in animals, food, garden, labyrinth, vegetables, tagged 100-foot diet, black snake, eating locally, first harvest, fresh garden produce, garden, homegrown vegetables, labyrinth, lettuce, locavore, radishes, spinach, spiritual journey, weeding on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today for lunch we had some fresh spinach from the garden. Not a lot, but enough to stir into the pasta sauce and ladle over our green organic spinach pasta. For dinner we harvested lettuce — 4 varieties — and 4 of our radishes transplanted weeks ago from our neighbor. Fresh radishes have an almost-peppery [...]
Seedlings are up!
Posted in food, garden, vegetables, tagged bedding plants, gardening, seed trays, seedlings, seeds, sprouting, tomatoes, transplants on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debbie planted three trays of seeds about 2 weeks ago, and already several seedlings are up! The “big” seedlings in the foreground are cucumbers, so they’re coming right along. The second tray has tomatoes — 3 varieties — and so far we have 72 plants in one tray. All of them sprouted, so we [...]
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