Jelly from Flowers? Edible Flower Recipes for Lilac Jelly
Along with Lilac, there are many different kinds of edible flowers with many various aromas and tastes including but not limited to: roses, violets, dandelions, lavender, honeysuckles, elder flower, hibiscus, marigold and so many more! To many, it is surprising to discover how many flowers are actually edible and all the simple and delicious ways […]
A License To Chill: Permits for Nature
“We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.” -E. O. Wilson When you choose to travel full time, you gain a sense of freedom as if you are able to see every place, hike […]
Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal
Across the U.S. local zoning officials are making it increasingly difficult for people to go off-grid and live self-sustainable lives. Building tiny homes, harvesting rainwater, using solar or wind energy, and even building community gardens are being targeted and in some cases, the people involved are even threatened with jail time and fines. Tiny Homes […]
Meet CannaCloud: The Keurig for your Weed!
As the cannabis industry grows, so do the contraptions making cannabis interesting and unique to consume. The CannaCloud has a fast growing interest for consumers as this vaporizer system is being called the Keurig of cannabis. And ironically the CEO of CannaKorp, the company responsible for creating CannaCloud, is actually the retired Vice-President of the […]
Dandelions are Food, Not Weeds – Make Salads, Teas and Help Save the Bees
Many gardeners and even your typical home owners view the dandelion as something that causes great trouble or suffering, when it actually provides many great benefits. Dandelions improve your soil’s health by helping break up the soil, creating tunnels for earthworms which are essential for healthy soil. Dandelions are so much more than a weed […]
Shared Earth: Where Gardeners and Landowners Connect and Grow (The Rideshare of Gardening!)
This is the ultimate sustainable opportunity for the gardener stuck in an apartment complex and the landowner looking for a flourishing yard and free food without the work! Have you wanted to start a garden but do not have the land or enough sunlight to grow the fruits and veggies you have desired? Or perhaps […]
Cheerios is Giving Away Wildflower Seeds that Might Harm Your Local Eco System + 5 Ways To Help!
We all want to help out the bees and when the help comes with your cereal you were already going to buy, it seems like an easy win-win situation. But as Cheerios hands out free seeds while encouraging you to save the bees, you should probably do a little bit of digging to make sure […]
Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footsteps: 5 Quick Tips to Help You Leave No Trace
How To Leave No Trace Too often campers, hikers, and even everyday park dwellers are careless, and leave trash behind. No one knows exactly how long plastic takes to break down, but it is believed to take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to fully decompose. It is not just the accumulation of […]
Trouble Sleeping? Study Says Go Camping to Reset Your Biological Clock
A new study suggests that a week of camping outdoors can reset our biological clock, also know as the circadian clock. The circadian clock is an internal clock that alerts your body to sleep, as well as to rise in the morning. This master clock in the brain controls the release of melatonin, a hormone […]
Going Tiny: Emotional Brain Surgery, The 5 Steps To Downsizing
If you are like most people you probably tend to keep things you don’t really need, yet build some sort of emotional attachment to. When you make the decision to go tiny or just live a minimalist lifestyle, you HAVE to downsize your belongings or you will quickly be living in a tiny hoarders paradise! […]
Plastic Bricks: The Sustainable Solution to the Plastic Epidemic
Today, there are more than 20 different major types of plastics in use worldwide. Recently plastics have been in public eye for being potentially dangerous to human exposure and for toxic components such as BPA and DEHP. The short term use of millions of tons of plastic is unsustainable and dangerous. We are still unaware […]
Road Schooling: Ditch the Classroom and Learn from the World
Road schooling or world schooling, emphasises the idea that most of the learning in life takes place outside of a traditional classroom. While the amount of formal school work done will vary depending on the family, the uniqueness of world schooling is that it provides a learning resource from the environment and societal interactions a […]