Harvesting Seeds

By James Brent Beach

A dabbler in vegetable gardening, this year I harvested my first seeds. The obvious benefit is that you do not have to repurchase seeds every year. But you must purchase non-hybrid seeds, certified organic heirloom seeds are preferred.  Consider the Seed Savers Exchange, check your local nursery, health food store,  [...]

Organic vs. Commercial foods

From A Course in Metabolic Typing and Healthy Nutrition
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Organic vs. Commercial foods

By  James Brent Beach

What are Organic Foods?

Basically, organic foods are foods raised and processed without synthetic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, sewer sludge, artificial hormones, antibiotics, irradiation, genetically modified organisms, etc. Livestock and poultry must be fed [...]

Prepare Prepare Prepare

By James Brent Beach

While camping this summer a friend pointed out some cloud formations and said when you see them you know a storm is coming. Indeed we already knew one was coming. It arrived with one of the longest and grandest lighting display I have ever seen or didn’t see [...]

Planning Spring Vegetable Gardens

By James Brent Beach

Its time to plan for a spring vegetable garden. A dabbler, this year I intended to build one solar pod and do more container planting. I intended to use two old double pained glass doors for the roof of my solar pod. They proved to be to heavy. [...]