Homemade Cough Syrup
Herbal cough syrup is a natural homemade alternative to conventional cough syrup. It contains herbs that help soothe the throat and promote restful sleep. Herbal Cough Syrup Recipe Prep time: 5 minsCook time: 30 minsTotal time: 35 mins Serves: 8+ Ingredients: 1 quart of filtered water ¼ cup Ginger Root (fresh grated or dried) ¼ […]
6 Tips for Growing Winter Salad Greens
Summer’s over, but there’s no reason why you can’t enjoy fresh, delicious salad greens throughout the winter months. With just a few small adjustments to your gardening methods and techniques,you’ll be able to grow your own tasty winter salad greens all year round. There are several hardy varieties of winter salad greens perfectly suited to […]
How to Use Apple Cider Vinegar For Healthier Skin and Hair
The skin and hair care industries are behemoths, making stacks upon stacks of money by promising healthier hair and brighter skin. They often use clever marketing to play off our insecurities, telling us if we were just less freckly, more even-toned, tanner, lighter, or brighter, we would be beautiful. They follow that up with offering […]
How to Freeze Peppers
If you like frozen peppers in the winter, just imagine how good it would taste if you had picked a bag yourself and then quickly froze it at home! It is also one of the simplest ways to put up a vegetable for the winter. Here’s how to do it, complete instructions in easy steps […]
Nut Butter Battle: Almond vs. Peanut
In recent years, almond butter was somehow anointed the chosen nut butter among health-conscious eaters, who smear it on their sprouted breads and gaze upon peanut butter as its low-brow relative. But the creamy almond treat is not cheap (it’s often about double the price of peanut), and when pressed, most people really can’t tell […]
Organic vs. Local Produce: How To Choose, When You Have To
It’s a bourgeois dilemma, to be sure, but it’s one many produce-loving healthy eaters face: If your neighborhood farmer’s market only sells local blueberries grown with pesticides and the organic ones at your grocer have been flown in from Chile, which do you buy? In an ideal world you’d always have access to berries that […]
Stinging Nettle: How To Identify, Harvest, and Eat
It’s unbelievable how much food you can collect from the wild! Our society is so accustomed to running to the grocery store for food that foraging for wild edibles has become a novelty instead of a necessity. Our ancestors not only knew how to identify wild plants that were edible, but they also wisely used […]
Bananas just as good as Gatorade for sports performance
As the battle between naturally functional and functionally fortified rages on, a recent study scores a hit for bananas. A recent study recruited 14 trained cyclists to ingest either bananas or Gatorade during 75km of high-exertion time trialing to see how each carbohydrate and nutrient source affected performance and recovery. They found no difference in […]
5 Fantastic Health Benefits of Peppermint Tea: Are You Drinking Enough?
Peppermint tea is more than just plain delicious. It has been proven to have some fairly amazing health and beauty benefits. From the tips of your hair to the tips of your toes and everything in between, let peppermint tea bestow its healing powers on you! 1. Stress Relief When it comes to stress and […]
Safe Natural Alternatives to the Flu Shot
Pharmacies have already begun promoting walk-in flu shots for the “flu season”. The late and early months of each year seem to be when more of us catch colds and come down with the flu. So what measures can you take to ensure you are not sidelined with nagging colds or a debilitating flu episode? […]
What to Eat When You’re Broke
The lower your income is, the more difficult it is to be particular about what you feed your family. This probably isn’t an earth-shattering revelation to anyone, but if you feel like experimenting, try to buy a week’s worth of healthy food for a family on a budget of, say, $50-75. Food manufacturers that target […]
Is Big Organic Bad?
How organics’ growth has changed the food landscape—for better and worse. Every winter I visit my dad in central Idaho, where the snow piles high along the two-lane interstate that slices the state from north to south and guides travelers through serene valleys and canyons dotted with tiny rural towns. In McCall, Idaho, nearby farms […]