The sweet potato has become an unsung hero against malnutrition in Africa. High in vitamin A and suited to a variety of climates, it hass championed by advocates of biofortification, a movement to improve global health by breeding nutrient-rich crops
Australia’s pistachio farmers expected a bumper crop this year. Instead they had a harvest of horrors, with nuts blackened by a fungus that had never before caused an outbreak in pistachios.
A new iPhone app offers a preview of the personalized, self-service future of shopping.
Weakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up—including gas prices, food and stocks—is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market.
One look at the wedge-shaped rows of plants and anyone could tell the circular garden was not grown under normal conditions. Plants sown in concentric circles displayed wildly different vitality and viability.
As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they're being harmed.
Rita is a very healthy bird, as you can see by the picture. I believe that her diet is one of the main reasons for this, and it doesn’t cost me a dime more than what I ordinarily spend on people food!
Japan nuclear radiation in Arizona milk samples show radioactive Iodine contamination levels up to 1600% above EPA drinking water limits. To make matters worse those contamination levels of radiation do not even include Caesium...
This setup utilized 6 containers and 20 bags of potting soil place in front of a large south facing window
With gas prices now standing at about $3.90 a gallon, energy costs have now passed 6 percent of spending—a level that Johnson says is a "tipping point" for consumers.
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Ernest Hancock
Danielle and Dennis McClung - GardenPool.org - We created GardenPool.org to document our journey of converting an old backyard swimming pool in to a way to feed our family and live more self-sufficiently.
The challenge here is keeping alert so that you don't get hit in the face by a 20 lbs. fish as it jumps in your boat!!!!
Practical Action uses technology to challenge poverty, working with poor women and men around the world. [downloadable how-to guides on self-help sustainable survival]
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A Must Watch Video; They glue scraps of meat together to make new "steaks" and prime cuts.
The tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan have rendered vast agricultural areas in that nation unusable. In fact, there are many that believe that eventually a significant portion of northern Japan will be considered to be uninhabitable...
In the recent article Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society, the author is talking about Arabica coffee being only cultivated near the equator. Robusto green coffee can be grown in the southern states like Florida and south Texas.
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Ernest Hancock
Danielle and Dennis McClung - GardenPool.org - We created GardenPool.org to document our journey of converting an old backyard swimming pool in to a way to feed our family and live more self-sufficiently.
Cows eat contaminated grass, drink contaminated water, and lo and behold, we find radioactive elements in their milk.
Back in October, Zero Hedge discussed a Costco offer for Shelf-Reliance THRIVE's one year's supply of dehydrated, freeze dried food, better known as "apocalypse rations."
China has one of the worst water problems in the world. Unless you solve your water problem, there's no China story. I've been around the world a couple of times, I've seen whole cities, societies and countries disappear because of water problems.
Corn prices surged to record peaks in the United States Thursday amid tight supply and fierce demand driven in part by rapid expansion of biofuels production. With demand outpacing supply despite a massive runup, and high oil prices adding to the
The states are getting nervous. Never fear: the US taxpayer is here. In a press release, the USDA has just announced that it "will award grants to improve access to and increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Financier and progressive activist George Soros is formulating a move to control food and grain production by purchasing grain elevators in late March in several parts of the United States through his Soros Managment Fund’s backed Gavilon Grain.
Detective pig investigates the sad truth behind the production of ‘Responsible’ labeled soy. Deforestation and toxic chemicals are destroying South America to grow the [GM] soy that feeds Europe’s factory farm animals.
TEPCO said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.
TEPCO finally admitted the truth that radioactive Iodine 131 readings taken from seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's No. 2 reactor reached 7.5 million times the legal limit. This means Godzilla is most likely very...
You won’t be able to tell if your food or water came from a contaminated region. Thus taking in water and food will become a form of Russian Roulette. I don’t know about you, but that’s not a game I think we should be playing with our health...
Video instructions for constructing an inexpensive greenhouse.
A landmark lawsuit filed on March 29 in US federal court seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds and to prohibit the company from suing those whose crops become genetically contaminated.
The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to produce milk with the same properties as human breast milk.
