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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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.
Subtropical Spring in a RealFood Garden
In frost free areas we’re blessed to be able to grow tropical food plants in the summer and better known European style veggies in the winter. This time of year, spring, is especially abundant with its overlap between the cool weather and hot weather plants. This post shares pics and links to info for a small selection of food plants from our garden.
Change… and Hope
Sometimes change asks more of us than we have to give, and we break. Sometimes we recover, but whether we recover or not, there is no going back to what we were before the change. We’re transformed us, forever, into something different than we were before. Here’s why I feel that this degree of change is upon us collectively now, and why I feel hopeful even in the midst of all that’s happening around the world.
5 Questions to Help You Learn From Last Year and Make the Most of This Year
Examine and learn from the year gone by, to make your New Year resolutions far more effective. Or use this process during any kind of ending and new beginning.
Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2
Why the modern healthcare system undermines our families and communities, and how we came to be so dependent on it.
Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1
A brief discussion about modern, quick-fix healthcare versus the slow lane – at-home healthcare that calls for a foundation of healthy living and a healthy social network (not the Twitter kind).