Have you ever thought about how amazing your skin is? It is the largest organ in the body, and weighs up to 11kg. It acts as a barrier to infections, preventing microorganisms entering our bodies. It is full of nerve endings that give us our sense of touch. It regulates our body temperature. Read more...

Denatured is a term that signifies the altering of a protein or product in a way that makes it dysfunctional, unnatural, and abnormal.  Commercial processing makes many foods unfit for consumption or for their intended biological purpose. Unfortunately, much of the food made available to us at our supermarkets has been denatured. 
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Repeat after me; anyone can compost. Whether you live in an urban setting, in the burbs, on thirty acres of land, in a studio apartment, or a center hall colonial...you can make a do it yourself home compost. Read more...

If you are in need of an organic insecticide you can buy one commercially made or make one yourself. Most of the insecticides you find on the shelves of gardening stores will be useful and efficient to some extent. Read more...

So your standing in Whole Foods wondering what kind of soap to buy. You browse the aisles in the "Whole Body" section of the store and are amazed by the selection of products you see. You want something that is natural and healthy for your skin. Read more...

As yule approaches, I'm starting to think of all the things I like to do!  One particular craft I love to make is a Yule pomander... or several Yule pomanders to be more accurate!  A Yule pomander is simply clove studded citrus fruit, most often oranges or clementines.
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There really is no substitute for honeybees. Whether it's the gazillion tonnes of pesticides we pollute our food, land and water with every year, an Israeli virus, extreme lack of diversity through our insane enslavement to monoculture, or genetically modified plants, the honey bees are dying at an alarming rate. Read more...

I've discussed the threats from modern industrial agriculture to one of our most valuable resources, our soil, in past posts.

Here are a few stats from my Soil Erosion post on my blog back on my blog in February of this year.
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