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Archive for November, 2007

Compost Tea

By Elaine Ingham November 1st, 2007

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Compost tea is used for two reasons: To inoculate microbial life into the soil or onto the foliage of plants, and to add soluble nutrients to the foliage or to the soil to feed the organisms and the plants present. The use of compost tea is suggested any ... MORE...

Cancer: Disease of Civilisation

By Barry Groves November 1st, 2007

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Unlike the prevention of many other diseases the prevention of cancer requires no government help, and no extra money. - DR OTTO WARBURG Recently, Cancer Research UK placed advertisements on TV in the United Kingdom showing three young girls, one after the other, captioned 'Teacher', 'Lawyer', 'Cancer'. What they were saying ... MORE...

Mother always knows best …. especially if she is Mother Nature.

By Vivian Jamieson November 1st, 2007

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Here it is - the greatest beauty secret of all time. I am not kidding. It is better than any expensive skin treatment, any wrinkle-filling cream or health-driven diet (although the diet wouldn’t hurt). And it is so simple, right under our noses or at the end of them anyway. ... MORE...

Pie Crusts :: Asian Pickling Cultures :: GERD :: Artifical Sweeterners

By Sally Fallon November 1st, 2007

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Question: In your NT book you say that you "permit" the use of white flour in pie crusts and for use on surfaces for working with dough. Do you recommend white flour over whole wheat flour because it yields a better outcome or because its better nutritionally (no phytic acid in white flour)? - Debra Answer: I allow the white flour as an exception because whole grain flour would need to be soaked and that does not make a good pie crust for sweet pies. The yoghurt dough is fine for quiche, etc (savory pies) but not for the sweet ones. For most people, a little white flour now and then (actually almost impossible to avoid) MORE...

How to Render and Store Traditional Animal Fats

By Joanne Hay November 1st, 2007

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Rendered fat can be used for frying, deep frying, basting baked foods, in pie crusts, straight on bread as well as in cosmetics. Animal fats were traditionally used in soaps and detergents. A much better option than palm oil which, grown in monocrops by big brother agribusinesses, is destroying ... MORE...

The Moon of Making Fat

By Jessica Prentice November 1st, 2007

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Moon of Making Fata name that comes from the Lakota (Sioux) calendar. I must admit I love the shock value of a moon name that celebrates something so many modern people shrink away from. I believe that the Lakota used this name because it was the time of year when ... MORE...

How to Build a Village by Claude Lewenz

By Joanne Hay November 1st, 2007

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Many of us have these secret dreams. Dreams that don't fit into our current experience but we can't get them out of our hearts. Dreams of a life without alienation. Where we live close to our relatives but not in their laps. Where the daily drudgery of traffic is replaced with ... MORE...

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nour·ish (nûrsh, nr-)
  1. To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
  2. To foster the development of; promote: “Athens was an imperial city, nourished by the tribute of subjects” (V. Gordon Childe).
  3. To keep alive; maintain: nourish a hope.

Originating from Latin Nutrire which means to feed or suckle

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