From the new card deck, Eco-Clean Deck, 50 Recipes for Nontoxic Household Cleaners, by Annie B. Bond
For most garden pests you don’t need much more than soap to kill pests, but make sure not to …

What’s up and down comes around, or so Nancy SantoPietro discusses in her informative book Feng Shui and Health, The Anatomy of a Home.
Reading SantoPietro’s take on the Feng Shui of the attic and basement …

Dear Annie,
Can you recommend a pet-safe way to treat an outdoor water pond/fountain. We have one in our yard but I have been hesitant to add chemicals that may be harmful to the dogs. …

Adapted from the totally charming book,Made from Scratch, by (Storey Books, 2010).
If you’re new to this concept, here are some recommendations on what to look for when you first venture out into the antiques malls. …

The entire family can get involved in making sugar ant hotels. My grown daughter still tells people about how we made these sugar ant hotel traps when she was little, and how well they worked. …

By Annie B. Bond
Share the recycled purchase that you covet the most!
Here’s mine (see picture, and yes, my purchase is the whole kitchen minus the appliances): When we bought our house, there …

Hi Annie,
Some of our cats have been peeing and spraying in our fireplace and on the brick around it. I’ve used those enzymes, but it’s perfumed and now I associate that smell with the …

The time to use this safe, effective, and very cheap poison ivy killing folk formula is in the spring, when the poison ivy leaves are young and shiny.
Ingredient
Vinegar
Just buy a big jug of vinegar–white …

Adapted from Feng Shui and Health, The Anatomy of a Home, by Nancy SantoPietro.
The most important interior factor affecting your health in your bedroom and in your home is the positioning of your bed.
If …

By Dorian Yates, the author and photographer for the Green Earth Guides-Traveling Naturally Books, Blog and Web and The Alternative Health Guides Web and Blog.

Like any city in the world, shopping in …