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Are you still in social isolation due to COVID-19 and running out of things to discuss with family members? Here’s a dinner table argument about whether tomatoes and eggs really need to be, or should be, stored in the fridge. And, as an added bonus—the secret behind the best vegetable soups.
This month is National Arthritis Awareness Month, and as such we would like to provide this update and information service about a new over-the-counter topical pain relief patch and topical gel approved by the FDA and recommended by chief medical correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot.
The writer reveals a snakes in the garden mulching problem that occurred when switching to this one mulching method.
Here’s some useful info with significant money-saving potential by using simple supplies to build your own system for collecting spring rainwater so that you can water your garden for free this summer.
A new study reveals that house cats allowed to roam free, actually kill more wildlife in your neighborhood than other similarly compared wild predator species. Here’s the facts about the study and how this could affect your garden.
Prolonged social distancing affects many adversely. Here’s what a new study reveals when measuring what makes people happiest in order to determine the healthiest COVID-19 activity for social distancing.
Think you’re hip on hemp? Think again, as you discover what hemp and the Lone Ranger have in common that leaves many Agronomists shaking their heads.
Do you avoid buying many fruits because you just can’t seem to pick one that is perfectly ripe? A new study suggests that all of this may change with an electronic tapping trick for picking a perfectly ripe fruit.
Now is the time to start thinking about transplanting your seedlings from pots to garden. But before you do, here are some tips on how to avoid making some common mulching mistakes with your garden this Spring.
How to Start a Quick, Simple and Inexpensive Garden in Just One Day
Here’s the latest news on whether buying commercially available permethrin treated clothing for blacklegged tick protection actually works, and if it is safe.
Lockdowns due to COVID-19 presents many problems not just to businesses and the economy, but to scientific research facilities as well. Here’s one proposed solution that could keep those labs open.
When was the last time you wore a NIOSH N95 dust mask while gardening? Better yet: When have you ever seen anyone wear a N95 mask while gardening? It might sound a little on the crazy side to do so, but as it turns out, protecting yourself from Farmer’s Lung and other diseases by wearing an N95 mask while gardening makes good health sense
The latest news and a little history on one of botany’s most infamous fungi.
Here’s an easy way to monitor your potential insect problems with a simple insect collecting device used by scientists.
Have you ever wondered why every spring a mysterious weed in your garden or yard pops up? A new study shows that it could be you or your neighbor’s fault due to common winter-time good intentions.
Discover now a little herbal history and what scientists are recently doing with an herbal plant that poisons as well as cures.
In light of how people overreact during times of crisis as evidenced recently by the state of the food shelves in our local groceries, food insecurity could become a very real threat to our health and well-being in the near future. Now is the time to take a history lesson from World War I and II citizen-patriots and plant your COVID-19 Victory Garden.
Here is one failed attempt at composting over the winter that is a good lesson on how not to compost.
Here are some Asian Herbals known to mitigate disease that could have an impact on slowing down the Coronavirus pandemic.
As a prelude to a series of articles on composting and what it does for plant growth, here’s a recent study that suggests turning human bodies into compost is environmentally friendly and thereby merits further investigation.
Earlier, we discussed the virtues of rice as a food staple, with instruction on the basics of how to grow rice from your home garden. As a follow-up to the article, here is an interesting study where scientists reveal how chefs-in-the-know cook the best fried rice dishes on a wok.
Historically, the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic may go down in the history books as the year of the Great Toilet Paper Wars. However, I would propose that in a more serious sense, aside from the tragedy of deaths and the circus sideshow politics has become, the Coronavirus really affects us more along the connection between light bulbs and rice. Here’s how and why.
One of the truths of raised bed gardening is that the cost of filling your raised bed garden with soil can easily exceed the cost of buying or building the raised bed garden frame itself. Here are some low-cost solutions for filling your raised bed garden with soil, a few of which are nearly dirt cheap.
Spring is here and it’s time to get started on that garden. However, not everyone has the time and energy to start a garden, let alone how to begin growing one without investing a lot of cash at your local hardware gardening department. Here’s some advice by an Agriculture Extension Service vegetable specialist on how to start a quick and simple garden in just one day without investing a lot of cash.
There’s a lot of interesting science to be found in your garden. Here’s a tomato plant fun fact where you will see how tomato plants can make a caterpillar turn cannibal.
With the passing of the 2019 Farm Bill, there has been a lot of interest in making money by farming CBD (cannabidiol) hemp. Here’s a new study that offers some guidance on what to expect, and what you need to know before planting hemp.
A new study reveals that a warming climate can do more damage to crops than previously forecasted. Here’s why that growing crops in a climate-controlled environment rather than outdoors might not be such a far-fetched idea in the future.
Archaeological evidence of crops can be traced as far back as 23,000 years ago on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (1). Over the years since, the cultivation of crops has evolved through a series of missteps, that if unchanged, could lead to our extinction in the near future. Discover now, through regenerative husbandry how your no-till garden can change the world.
You followed a plant-based diet, but your physician tells you that your latest fasting blood test results shows no improvement in your cardiovascular health. Here’s one possible reason why, and what you can do to get better numbers the next time.
A new study warns that improper home landscape management can increase the risk of you and your family falling victim to Lyme disease and a multitude of other tick-borne diseases this spring.
