Green leafy foods can be dangerous

What else can't we eat? Who is watching the store? Why can't the FDA manage what goes on our store shelves? What next?" Green leafy foods can be dangerous In a 6 October 2009 article, the Huffington Post...

G20 leaders get a 'Best of British' dinner at 10 Downing Street

Jamie Oliver cooked up a 'Best of British' feast for the G20 leaders tonight in Downing Street, ahead of the Summit meeting tomorrow morning. Oliver, along with young chefs from his 'Fifteen' restaurant, used produce from all over the country, and started with organic salmon...

How to build a garden Wicking Bed for your veggies

"The wicking worm bed is a highly productive growing system which not only produces more food from limited water, but also recycles waste organic material to provide plant nutrient and capture carbon. The essence is to form an underground reservoir of water or pond...

Potassium Bicarbonate: Lowers Blood Pressure- Greater Muscle Mass

Necessity is considered to be the Mother of Invention. And whether you liked Frank Zappa's music or not ( there is a joke for Boomers in there somewhere..), the best solutions seem to come from the most...

Did You Hear The One About.......

Did you hear about the Bed and Breakfast clients who wouldn't eat any of the fresh fruit provided because they had to peel it? Or the eggs from real hens they could see and talk to because they weren't in...

Michelle Obama could plant a White House garden

Michelle Obama spoke to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday and she spoke very highly of the community gardening program. Last week the USDA launched the program to develop gardens at...

Stately Homes become 'grow your own' allotments

  The National Trust is to turn over area of land within the grounds of Stately Homes to become grow your own allotments. They will make 140 new allotments available to the public to use as allotments and grow...

Boycott the fruits of apartheid

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside the main UK warehouse of Israeli company Carmel Agrexco in Hayes, Middlesex, close to Heathrow on Saturday 7 Feb, 2009, claiming its exports of flowers and fruit from...

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

It's no great surprise of course, but the scale of the destruction is emerging. Blockaded Gaza will need even more aid."Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmlandOfficials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves...

Tinned soup hidden salt cancer risk

Next week is Salt Awareness Week and the aim is to kick start a campaign to make people more aware of the 'hidden salt' content of everyday processed foods in a bid to help people avoid increasing the risk of...

PETA Super Bowl ad too sexy for NBC

Super Bowl executives at NBC have pulled the plug on a PETA commercial that shows sexy, scantily clad models getting intimate with vegetables, as they say that is shows a level of sexuality that exceeds out...

Easy Armchair Gardening, Dreaming of Summer

With snow covering most of Canada and the land sleeping beneath a white coat, you might think that no gardening can be done.  Not so.  Now is the time to plan what wonderful crops you'll plant and...

A good mix of veggies for a balanced meal

There are a lot of typical 'tropical vegetables', many of these vegetables and tropical fruit can be seen on markets in Europe, Australia or North-America. One of the main reasons for the...

Nuts can cut heart problems

Just 30g of nuts a day on top of a Mediterranean style diet can cut heart problems. Scientists believe the nuts contain compounds that stop damage caused by insulin.A Mediterranean diet in itself has been shown to...

Pick of the Crop

A Platteville, Colorado farm couple say they got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick free vegetables left over after the harvest."Forty thousand people showed up. Joe and...

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