7 small ways to start growing your own food, improving your nutrition, and lowering your grocery costs – even if you’re short on time, space, or confidence.
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On “Not Enough Time,” and “Not Good Enough”
A short post on how we use our time and those uncomfortable feelings of “not enough time,” and “not good enough.” Turns out, they might all be connected.
How to Hand Pollinate Pumpkin Flowers
Once you know how to tell a male pumpkin flower from a female one, it’s a simple matter to hand pollinate your female flowers and be sure of more pumpkins, especially in rainy weather when pollinating insects aren’t on the job. (Or your pollinator population has been decimated by pesticides.)
Supermarket Strategy #6 – Wise Use of Whole Foods
Whole foods require more planning and organization than processed convenience foods, but the pay-off is worth it. The benefits include: better nutrition, a feeling of empowerment and reconnection as you learn to engage with your food closer to its source, and the satisfaction in knowing you’re taking better care of the Earth just by how you eat.
How Tending Your Inner Parts, Besides Making You Feel Better, Helps Mend the World
As you learn to inhabit your core Self more easily, and from there to bring your internal world into emotional regulation, you’re also developing the capacities that our wider world is asking of us.
Strategy #5 – What’s Shaping Your Grocery Shopping Habits?
Our physical and social environments have huge influence on our habits and behaviors. People who design supermarkets and sell products know this and take full advantage of it. This post will help you examine what’s shaping your shopping routines and your buying decisions, and learn how to change them.
Strategy #4 – to Help Parents Spend Less at the Supermarket
Strategy #4 to help you dethrone the supermarket giants. Includes a link to the previous 3 strategies.
Spend Less and Tread Lighter by Examining Your Supermarket Habits
Reducing our supermarket reliance and moving toward more real, local food seems more important now than ever. This post shares 3 ideas to get you started or help you along on that path. (Published Oct22; updated Jul26)
New Beginnings in the Garden of You
We all have an inner life — an inner “garden.” When we neglect it, the useful, beautiful things in it whither and diminish, and the weeds take over. This post shares ways to help your inner garden thrive by tending it in alignment with Nature’s seasons.
RealFood Turmeric + Golden Milk Recipe
Tips and hints about eating fresh, whole turmeric + our basic recipe for Turmeric Milk, or Golden Milk.