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Organic Gardening Series: An All Natural Spray to Battle Bugs and Disease

July 30th, 2010 · 17 Comments · Organic Gardening

If you buy a hose-end sprayer, you will feel like a real gardener, I guarantee it. It may not guarantee good vegetables, but doggone you look cool spraying your gardens. (I’ve decided this week that I’m not growing peppers ever again – it’s cheaper for me to buy the peppers than the plant that only [...]

10 Questions to Ask Your Farmer

July 1st, 2010 · 15 Comments · Uncategorized

Joel Salatin’s said it. Michael Pollan has probably said it. Countless bloggers, locavores, and whole foods enthusiasts have said it. Get to know your farmer. Well. If the instructions were, “Pay your farmer what he’s worth,” or “Read the manual for your new car,” or “Follow the recipe exactly,” it would be easy to follow [...]

How to Naturally Get Rid of Ants in your House

June 30th, 2010 · 34 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself, Organic Gardening

I killed 50 ants today in 10 minutes. Turns out that spilled sugar and a sticky molasses jar attract ants like…well, like spilled sugar and a sticky puddle of molasses! The microwave cabinet where I keep my sweeteners (since I don’t use a microwave anymore) was taken over by ants, the little kind that don’t [...]

Organic Gardening Series: Natural Pest Control

June 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Organic Gardening

They’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 talks [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Pesticides Out!

May 10th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized

What a treat! It’s Laura of Heavenly Homemakers popping over for a chat today, sharing her story about organic gardening, a subject she knows plenty about! See all the past topics and hostesses here. My Organic Story Seven years ago, I didn’t know. I didn’t think about the earth. I didn’t think about the soil. [...]

Monday Mission: Take an Organic Step

May 10th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something organic this week that you don’t usually. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps This is a leveled challenge, because readers might be at all different places in their organic process. Find your profile and act accordingly:

I Just Love Finding Bugs in my Lettuce

May 10th, 2010 · 53 Comments · My Story

I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic food situation there. People talk to me about food a lot. Go figure. It seems that the gal could only find organic produce in the stores; that was the norm [...]

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