Olive oil, a staple of the Mediterranean Diet, is an incredibly healthy oil – full of ‘good’ fats and antioxidants. But olive oil doesn’t just make a delicious salad dressing, …

Of all of the fond memories from your childhood, the stern voice of your mother or father admonishing you to “Eat your greens,” because “they’re good for you,” probably isn’t …

Bees, not just the honeybees, but bumblebees, soldier bees, carpenter bees, mason bees, sweat bees and several thousand other types, are essential to sustain our lives. One-third of the plants …

Cocoa butter has been a favorite substance for comfort-cravers all over the world, even if unintentionally.  It is the primary ingredient in most chocolates and adds the creamy, smooth texture …

Foraging for edible herbs, as our ancestors did, is not just an interesting activity. It provides you with free food, nutritious and untainted by artificial methods of cultivation. Although it …

Herbs and spices add flavor to our food. Besides increasing the palatability of otherwise bland foods, they work as digestive aids, the volatile oils in them having a therapeutic action …

Raised bed gardening is not a new concept. Traditional gardeners used to double dig their beds to form rectangular or circular mounds 1-1 ½ ft. high, with sloping edges. A …

If you think you’ve been seeing more and more about goats lately, you’re not wrong. They’re the second fastest growing livestock in the USA right now (after chickens of course). …

Lavender is a beautiful perennial evergreen plant that hails from southern Europe and the mountain regions located on the western border of the Mediterranean and also North and East Africa, …

Do you dream of operating a zero-waste household? Do you get a real thrill when you squeeze every last ounce of usefulness out of your food and drink? Are you …