Pesticides in Our Food

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Living RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Pesticides do more than kill little tiny bugs. They permanently harm human beings in countless ways. It is foolish to assume that something capable of killing a beetle will not harm your sperm, egg or [...]

BPA and Canned Foods

Many of us are aware of the dangers of BPA in our water bottles and baby bottles, but for some reason we overlook the danger of BPA and canned foods. BPA was originally developed in the 1930s to be used as an estrogen replacing drug for women but was replaced by the stronger DES. [...]

What is Fair Trade Coffee?

“The chief concern of the Fair Trade movement has been to ensure that the vast majority of the world’s coffee farmers (who are small holders) get a fair price for their harvests in order to achieve a decent living wage. Fair Trade guarantees to poor farmers organized in cooperatives around the world: a living wage; [...]

Start an Organic Salad Garden

“When you garden organically, you think of your plants as part of a whole system within Nature that starts in the soil and includes the water supply, people, wildlife and even insects. An organic gardener strives to work in harmony with natural systems and to minimize and continually replenish any resources the garden consumes.” Organicgardening.com
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What are Downer Cows?

Downer cows recently made headlines after a disturbing undercover video was released, the USDA issued a massive meat recall and the Humane Society sued. Cows headed for slaughter that are so sick or crippled they are unable to stand up are called downer cows by the meat industry. Generally speaking, these cows are [...]

Environmental Toxins in Our Food Supply

You are what you eat. The sad fact is that as long as farmers are allowed to spray environmental toxins on the food they produce, they will be poisoning you and your family right along with the insects they are trying to kill. These pesticides are more than a simple residue on [...]

Environmental Toxins and You

by Rik J. Deitsch
We are surrounded by environmental toxins. Substances that may cause distress or disease to our bodies can be found in everything that we eat, in everything that we drink and even in the air we breathe. Some of these compounds are a by-product of an industrialized world. Heavy metals [...]

6 Of The Top Organic Fertilizers

by James Ellison
Some of the most important organic fertilizers are fish emulsion, seaweed, earthworm castings, bone meal, kelp meal, and rock phosphates. These natural fertilizers will improve your plants, especially yield plants, and are great for the soil. Not only do they nourish your plants but the soil as well so that it is [...]

Eat Organic Without Going Broke

“In December 2000, the National Organic Standards Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) established a national standard for the term “organic.” Organic food, defined by how it cannot be made rather than how it can be made, must be produced without the use of sewer-sludge fertilizers, most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, genetic engineering [...]

Celebrate Earth Day Everyday

12 Ways You Can Celebrate Earth Day Everyday

Author: Lisa R. Marshall
I ask you to consider honoring Mother Earth everyday. We can not continue to take from our resources and never give back in return. There needs to be a balance in nature. We have moved so far away from living in harmony with nature. The [...]