Tag: Featured Living
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How to Keep Your Seeds Alive for Years
There’s three conditions to maintain to keep your prized heirloom seeds viable: keep them cool, dry and dark. Seeds are embryos encased in a womb shell, or, as the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center explains, “A seed is a plant in a box with its lunch.” [caption id="attachment_308155" align="alignnone" width="500"] Be sure to label your…
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Mexico Bans GMO Corn Effective Immediately
A Mexico judge has placed an indefinite ban on genetically engineered corn. Effective immediately, companies like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country’s borders. According to Environmental Food and Justice, Judge Jaime Eduardo Verdugo J. of the Twelfth Federal District Court for Civil Matters of Mexico City wrote…
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Vermiculture: An Easy Alternative to Outdoor Composting
If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms. Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down…
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Will Hawaii’s Big Island Ban GMO Farming?
The Big Island of Hawaii County Council is expected to consider a bill on Wednesday, Oct. 16 that would prohibit all open-air growing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) except papayas and other GMO crops now being cultivated. The bill also would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the Big Island. [caption id="attachment_307940" align="alignnone" width="520"] Most papayas…