For most folks, gardening is a seasonal activity. We get our seed catalogs in the mail in December, and we spend the winter planning for our spring and summer gardens. But there’s an additional six months that you can utilize...
The prospect of growing food in your backyard can be pretty daunting. The raised beds. The need for more space. Trying to keep out pests. It’s easy to get overwhelmed before you […]
In less than two months, spring will officially arrive on our calendars, and the 2018 gardening season will begin in earnest! But there are plenty of ways we could be eating our own homegrown food right now with proper planning in late summer and early fall. In fact, wife Pat and I are still eating […]
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There’s another very special reason for growing and eating many of our cole crops, such as kale, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, which are also known as “cruciferous vegetables,” easily identified by their cross-like (crucifix)-shaped flowers. These “Superfoods” have become the latest trend in healthy eating, featured in medical research around the world as having a […]
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“Most botanists agree that our modern crucifers developed from wild plants that grow in the eastern Mediterranean region,” says Jo Robinson, author of Eating on the Wild Side, who researched nutritional data published worldwide for nine years to complete her book. “In nature, they are leafy greens without a crown or central head, much like […]
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Vani Deva Hari, who blogs as the Food Babe, is an American author and food activist, who promotes more nutritious—especially organically-grown—food choices in lieu of the typical highly processed foods offered by the conventional food industry. She started the Food Babe blog in 2011, and it received over 54 million views in 2014. Born in Charlotte, N.C., […]
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In a list of 10 Things About Kale Whether You Like It Or Not at the website www.enrichyourlifecoaching.com, we learn more about the special health benefits we’re missing by not including kale in our diets, and kale is just one of the many cruciferous vegetables we need to consider growing in our gardens. Our “10 […]
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