Food

How to Make Garlic Honey

This blog post is part of an Herbal Blog Party hosted by Kiva Rose about Herbal Sweet Medicine at Bear Medicine Herbals.
Garlic is a common kitchen herb with many medicinal uses. It can helps resolve colds, coughs, sore throats, and sinus infections. Externally it can be used for skin infections. For chronic concerns, Garlic helps reduce blood sugar and high blood pressure.>>Read more »

Michelle Obama - Change we can eat?

 
The White House, with its new occupants, has another new addition thanks to First Lady Michelle Obama – an organic garden. Michelle planted the kitchen garden with local school children, and since it was planted the garden has yielded more than eighty pounds of produce which has been used in the White House kitchen as well as distributed to the children who helped plant it.
 
I think it’s fantastic. Not everyone shares my view.
 

Destroying the earth in the name of food safety

I recently read and article from the San Francisco Chronicle that completely alarmed me. Here is the beginning paragraphs of “Crops, pond destroyed in quest for food safety” written by Carolyn Lochhead: 

Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.>>Read more »

Social Justice vs. Organic : what's your priority?

To me, there is no organic food without social justice. Actually, it is social justice that led me to pledge to eat only organic grown meat: I've seen videos of mistreated chicken (beaten by employees) that revolted me, only to understand that employees were themselves subject to high stress. The two biggest poultries of the U.S have the lowest accidents reports rate, even lower than toy factories. Amazing, when you know the battery of sharp knives and speed of  task processing the employees deal with everyday. Impossible? Actually yes.>>Read more »

Food Demand Likely to Outpace Production

As reported over at Climate Progress;

"With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released June 25. The report, produced by Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s leading global investment banks, in collaboration with the University of>>Read more »

Having a bit of Thiabendazole with that apple?

Probably, Thiabendazole residue, a probable carcinogen, is found 87.9% of the time on non organic apples as determined by the USDA. The neurotoxin Azinphos methyl is found 31.8% of the time. Yummmmmm........ And you can't count on washing to remove these contaminants.

If you suspect that contamination somehow magically disappears during processing, check out peanut butter, Piperonyl butoxide, a suspected carcinogen and hormone disruptor, is found 26.9% of the time.>>Read more »

Garden raised beds make organic gardening easy

Growing a backyard garden is an important and rewarding part of living a more natural, sustainable lifestyle. Planting a garden allows you to grow a variety of healthy herbs and vegetables without worrying about the effects of dangerous pesticides or the resources used to transport produce.>>Read more »

Catching up in the Garden

Eighteen days was quite a few to be away from the plants and chickens. There were 30 inches of rain here while I was gone. Luckily everything drained well and there was no flooding or severe leakage.>>Read more »

Shopping guide for Non GMO when buying dairy.

Here's a list of Dairy products, alternative dairy products and infant formula indicating it's GMO status.
"DAIRY PRODUCTS & ALTERNATIVE DAIRY PRODUCTS
Some U.S. dairy farms inject the genetically engineered hormone rbGH, also called rbST, into their cows to boost milk production—so be sure to purchase products with a label that indicates cows free of rbGH or rbST. Many alternative dairy products are made from soybeans and may contain GM materials.
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Privacy Policy AltGlobe.org

Some legal stuff...
This website is the property of Orighinami LLC. * Content of the website: AltGlobe.com is a website describing an alternative community and shared interests where visitors have access to a wide range of information and can contribute to the growth of the community by proposing their interests, insights and materials. *>>Read more »

Organic Gardening Takes Patience and Research

As spring bursts forth across the Northern hemisphere, the information about gardening seems to be emerging as quickly as the plants themselves.  In the Northeastern we're just now starting to plant the bulk of what we'd like to eat, as the danger of frost is pretty much past.  Every year I>>Read more »

Planted your garden yet?

The garden I helped get in the ground in Bermuda a month ago is already providing all the salad greens the household needs. The one I've helped put in here in North Carolina in the last month is already yielding fresh organic lettuce and swiss chard. The corn, onions and beans are 4 inches high, the turnips, carrots, and and cukes are well on their way.>>Read more »

Our food, our future.

Today's agriculture with its modern processes and use of chemicals has a burdening effect on the environment due to its intensity. The use of mechanization creates a huge load with large energy inputs in the form of mineral and natural fertilizers, pesticides, and various land improvements. The facts about corporate food-by the numbers.>>Read more »

Plant Moringa for Hunger and Hope

Moringa Oleifera
is an nutritive fast-growing tree, which is native to India. I learned about this tree a couple of years ago from my friend Aminu Ibrahim from our SolarNetOne project at Katsina State University in Nigera. and I just had to try growing it.>>Read more »

Free Ice Cream Cone day at Ben and Jerry's this Tuesday!

Personally I'm going to get a cone of  Phish Food. Tuesday the 21st of April, noon to 8PM. Doesnt' specify if it is all Ben and Jerry's locations or just the one on 475 Jefferson in San Francisco. You bet I'm going to be calling around and I'll update this by tomorrow. Sweet!

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