Meditation to ease your midweek madness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUnNMHchAPc Stress!!! It's nearly unavoidable in this modern-day, ADD lifestyle we all lead. Most of us never allow ourselves a moment to breathe. And that affects us in so many ways: It affects how we eat (stress eating!), how we digest, how our cells manage nutrients and contributes to aging, causes high blood pressure - among so [...]

From scraps to scrumptious: Regrow your groceries!

  Mother nature always shows that when there is a will, there's a way. I never realized until I started gardening just how easy it is to grow food. Because life, in any form, is engineered to grow, live, and flourish. It's just the design. And any living thing in nature is also endowed with [...]

Composting Lessons: Be wary of the seed

Well, now I know why they tell you not to put anything with seeds into the compost. We laid down some of our homemade compost in with our fresh dirt for our two new raised beds back in March. For over a month, we've had fast-growing, gargantuan rogue plants popping up everywhere before a single [...]

Super Size Your C Today

  We all know Vitamin C, right? We run to the drug store for copious amounts of it, especially when cold season starts to manhandle us midweek and can’t afford to get sick. We know our orange juice is chock full of it. We know it’s in a lot of citrus fruits, which protects us [...]

All hail the mighty pecan nut

Aaaaah, pecans! These soft, buttery and nutty little packages of healthy nutrients have become my top favorite nut. It's hard to believe that three years ago, I would have made a face at any nut on the planet. That's what finding out what's healthy does for you - you try new things and find out [...]