Most of us have found getting whites white one of the bigger challenges of green housekeeping. Fortunately, with using the natural mineral sodium percarbonate, your woes will be over. It is composed of salt, limestone …

Who doesn’t love freshly picked corn-on-the-cob roasted over coals? Pity the poor person who has never had it. The question is often just, what shall we put on the corn when it comes steaming …

I saw my neighbor, Hellen, digging the weeds out her gravel driveway and stopped by to give her the same tip that I am going to give to you. Hellen works really hard to …

Mindfulness meditation is a technique researched and popularized in the United States by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. It involves focusing on the present moment, acknowledging thoughts as they come up, and observing them without judgment or …

If the disaster in the Gulf is inspiring you to look for ways to reduce your petroleum oil “footprint,” one good place to look is at your use of Tiki torches. Except for a very …

I recently cleaned up all the porch furniture, bought some new cushions, and washed the floor really well. What a difference! I’ve enjoyed being out there ever since, as has anybody who has dropped by. …

By Melissa Breyer, from True Food, by Annie B. Bond, Melissa Breyer, and Wendy Gordon (National Geographic, 2010).
Bread pudding is one of those magical concoctions whereby a few humble ingredients are slapped together and transformed …

I loved delving into learning about healing herbs when I was writing Better Basics for the Home. What a gift to us from the herbal world, and what a loss for us that so few …

At the ocean or wishing you were there? Make a seaweed soak bath with fresh or dried seaweed and bring healing to your organs (especially your thyroid and adrenals), detox to your cells, and provide …

The citrus tree is a small evergreen tree that can produce as many as 1,500 lemons a year.
Much of lemon’s gift is that it is an acid, even more, it is an alpha-hydroxy acid, making …