Imagine a garden with no irrigation or fertilization that uses up old wood and gives you more plant miles for your space than any other form of raised garden bed or otherwise. I’m so excited about Hugelkultur and Paul Wheaton’s article on how to do it.

We live in the rural back hollers of the N. Georgia mountains. The elders here, those in their late 60′s and above, all remember how to be poor and successful. Their success wasn’t about accumulating stuff or status or money, it was about surviving on the land.. Those of us who are learning to be poor are gonna be well placed to survive the coming turmoils…

Wheatgrass is one of the most powerful nutrients around containing every amino acid, vitamin, and mineral required by the human body. If you consume refined wheat in items like bread and pasta, you are actually eating the least nutritious part of the plant especially with today’s modern row chemical farming. Find out more about wheatgrass and how it can benefit you and your pets.

There are five main linguistic actions. Breakdowns in these actions generally result from “linguistic viruses.” They attack relationships, alter the structures of the individuals in them and cause dissatisfac¬tion, bad moods and even ill health. Learning what they are will allow you to listen to others more effectively, and heal them and yourself.

Winter is coming and it’s time to start thinking about immune boosting natural remedies. Essiac Brew is a modern name for an ancient healing recipe culled from a small group of Native Americans living in the South East USA. They called it Muscogee Tea.

There’s an abundance available to us, if we cooperate with Nature. An abundance on the material level, and on the spiritual level. It’s like when the two-year-old discovers the joy of cooperation with its parents, you discover “what a wonderful childhood I can have!” What wonderful things we can do together, when we cooperate together.

Once we get over this two-year-old tantrum crisis and learn to cooperate with Nature, to do green chemistry instead of toxic chemistry, eliminating cancer, and asthma, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s (all of which come from our relationship to our lousy food and our toxic chemicals getting into our bodies) – all that can be gone! We can get back to healthy living for a good, hundred-year lifespan. We can live within the abundance of Nature.

Until we give children free rein to be themselves and provide an education system that fosters this fully, we will continue to produce generations of unhappy people locked into what other people think they ought to do, taking on beliefs and values that aren’t right for them… What a terrible thought…! I know, because I’ve been struggling to emerge for a long time.

Life is a journey and we are all unique so when we open ourselves and our kids out to that fact and teach them the values of harmonious living with people and the earth and how to survive and thrive in an alternative system, we will truly be contributing to the evolution of the world through the evolution of each individual to their own greatness.

If we continue to teach them the same old current system crap that hasn’t worked for us, we are not following the basic presuppositions of life.. If it doesn’t work, do something else..

Ever thought of starting a tree and berry bush nursery? With more and more people getting excited about food forest gardens, there will be more demand for ready grown fruit and nut tree and berry bush seedlings and cuttings. As communities become more locally based this will increase the demand for LOCAL suppliers. We hope this article will inspire some to explore this as an eco-commerce that would offer great barter opportunities when the current money-based economy falters.

We are trapped in a circle of needing to meet our basic requirements, and having to use our gifts in exchange for ‘money’ in order to purchase those basic needs. And we are trapped in a a mesmeric trance of believing we need more than the basics in order to be happy. What has to happen so that we are freed from the circle of desiring more than we need and able to give our gifts as true free gifts to humanity.
We must break the circle of desiring more than we need so that we can truly enter the circle of freely sharing our gifts as gifts to humanity.. Click the title above to read more

Brownies [matured'greenies']know that we have to go beyond the ‘green’ concepts of water-saving flush toilets and store-bought organic fertilizers.

If you are going to ‘brown down’ and live the simple life, then a composting humanure toilet and a compost pile are prerequisites. In this piece we include two great videos on how and why composting toilets are so ‘brown’; how to make compost and photos of our own humanure pooper as well as a recipe for compost tea. Click the title to read more..