Pin ItThere are many ways to naturally control weeds in a garden. If you have a raised bed garden, you really should have very few weeds, and if you do have any, you should be able to easily pull them up by hand. However, if you have a large garden, you are going to need [...]
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What Kind of Milk Should I Buy?
June 22nd, 2010 · 104 Comments · Science of Nutrition, What to Buy
Pin It Even among the tangled webs of nutrition science and speculation (can you say “soaking grains”?), safe milk has got to be one of the most difficult. I bet I have more people dash a quick email or leave an unrelated comment at a post to ask about safe milk than any other food. [...]
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Monday Mission: Examine Your Milk Source
June 21st, 2010 · 63 Comments · Monday Missions
Pin It Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine, and hopefully improve, the milk your family drinks. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides (Leap of Faith?) From store brand skim to fresh milk from a local farm and everything in between, the vast array of milk choices is dizzying. There are [...]
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Organic Gardening Series: Natural Pest Control
June 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItThey’re coming. They can knock over a whole pepper plant in a single night. They can make Swiss cheese look complete next to the leaves of your green beans. They can put holes in your fruit that will just tick you off as you struggle to cut around them. Rene of Budget Saving Mom [...]
Tags: gardening·natural bug spray·natural pest control·organic·pesticides·produce·slugs
How to Plant Tomatoes: 8 Things I Put in the Tomato Planting Hole
June 10th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItI’m no master gardener, but I am a perfectionist and rather thorough when I decide to tackle a project. Three years ago, my new thing was vegetable gardening. As a result of all my reading, watching me plant a tomato is almost like watching me make a complicated recipe in my kitchen. The 8 [...]
Organic Gardening Series: Genetically Modified Seeds
June 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Organic Gardening
Pin ItNo-GMO! The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: To save money, we plant our garden from seeds. However, today a seed is not necessarily the type of seed that our grandparents would have planted. Many seeds have been genetically modified, had genes inserted in order to produce plants [...]
The List: What to Eat, What to Avoid, How to Compromise
June 3rd, 2010 · 69 Comments · What to Buy
Pin ItBad. Better. Best. It’s “What to Buy” in three columns. I have been asked more than once to collect all the “avoid this” terms in one place, as well as to make a list of “good foods, bad foods, and compromise foods.” This three-column list is my attempt to meet these needs. You’ll find [...]
