Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Long before the arrival of the earliest spring flowers, I’ve been daydreaming of some charming little DIY project to do outdoors as soon as the weather warms enough and the April heavy showers come to an end. Don’t you ever just need to get outside and drink in the exhilaration? It smells so good and the air feels clean and alive.
It’s the season of flowers, and sweet violets are plentiful in lightly-shaded backyards, hedgerows and along hiking trails throughout North America.
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Image by Manfred Richter from Pixabay
Planting elderberries may be the way to go for your own family’s stash. It’s been difficult to get elderberries at a reasonable price due to the limited supply and huge demand, so people are growing their own. I will show you how we did it.
As a society, we have gone outside the home for most of what we need and want in our lives. To mix homemade and homegrown into as much of our lives as possible – even in the littlest things – can change so much….
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay
Because ethnic populations in India account for one-sixth of the world’s numbers and have some of the highest spice consumption in the world, research studies in India has great potential for improving our understanding of the relationship between diet and cancer.
The lower rates of cancer in India may, of course, not be totally due to higher spice intake….
One of the more unfortunate FDA labeling rules is allowing food manufacturers to label beta carotene as Vitamin A.
There’s a common misunderstanding that beta-carotene found in fruits and vegetables is the same thing as vitamin A.
It’s not!…
Post and photos by Diana from My Humble Kitchen.
[I have been eagerly building my repertoire of gluten-free recipes, so when I tried and really loved Diana’s wonderful almond flour fudge brownies, it seemed natural to ask her to guest post their baking journey and her recipe. I used Honeyville blanched almond flour. I love that it stores well in the freezer and has the skins removed by a quick soaking to cut down on phytic acid.]
I don’t believe there are many things that taste as good as a freshly baked loaf of bread, slicing into its blistered crackling crust, warm from the oven, and then smothering it with golden butter. Love. That’s what it is. I absolutely love bread but as I’ve grown older, I’ve found that I don’t digest it as well as I used to.
Bummer, right?
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People are exposed to heavy metals in a few different ways, primarily through drinking water or food, amalgam fillings, (even crops can uptake metals from contaminated soil). Many heavy metals are poisonous to humans, even in small concentrations….
