Nutritionists and other health experts have been praising the virtues of nuts for many years. In recent health news, walnuts have risen to the top of the pack. Walnuts are the new star of the nutrition world because of numerous ...
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Keeping Your Barn Cats Healthy
They’re tough. They’re loners. They rebuff your attempts at affection. It’s easy to leave your barn or feral cats to their own business and let them care for themselves. The truth is, however, those integral residents of your barn do ...
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Those who travel in off-the-grid and prepper circles obviously put a lot of emphasis on survival, and rightly so. But life is about more than just survival. God gave us the gifts of creativity, intelligence, and the capacity to experience ...
Read More »How To Make Your Own Soap
People have been making and using soap for nearly 5,000 years, and possibly much longer than that. At around 3,000 B.C. enterprising Babylonians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians began making simple soaps to use for sanitizing cooking implements. These days, we rely ...
Read More »Suggestions for Homegrown Chicken Feed
Dear Joel, What plants should be grown in the home garden to feed a small flock of chickens so commercial feed is not needed? How do you recommend accomplishing this? Thank you! -Laura W. Read the answer…
Read More »Should Americans Get Even Dirtier?
Think back to when you were a kid. Can you remember any of your friends being deathly allergic to peanuts or sensitive to gluten and lactose? There has definitely been a major rise in food allergies over the last decade ...
Read More »Too Much of a Good Thing: The Biology of Antibiotic Resistance
There is no disputing that antibiotics can be lifesavers. For those suffering from dangerous bacterial infections, taking these medicines may very well be necessary, and there may not be any good alternatives available in many cases. Any sane medical system ...
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Located at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, an 80 million-year-old bee lies preserved in a small bit of amber. A rock painting in Spain that is believed to be between 6,000 and 8,000 years old is ...
Read More »Natural and Herbal Remedies for Constipation
This may be an uncomfortable topic for some, but it is one of great importance. If your body is not eliminating waste effectively, the build up of toxins can impair the immune system, making you sick. It will also cause unnecessary weight gain as the fecal matter collects in your colon and intestines.
Read More »Surviving and Thriving on Very Little Food
There are over 5,000 known varieties of the potato, but today we eat less than a dozen of them. There are over 15,000 varieties of beans in existence, but you’ll find only five or six of them at your grocery ...
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