Tag: Tips
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11 Ways to Vote With Your Fork
There’s no denying that you can in fact vote with your fork. The best part about it? You get to vote three times a day. When you think about it, food is one of the most basic things that we can change, altering our habits to not only better our own health, but the health…
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How to Use Cold Frames As a Year-Round Gardening Tool
Springtime sees your friendly, think-ahead Planet Natural blogger putting his cold frame to heavy use. Now, in a time of year where frosts are still possible, many of our indoor vegetable starts are almost ready to go into the garden. They need to get use to being outdoors. Many of them can’t survive the night-time cold…
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20 Eco-Friendly Easter Egg Ideas
No plastic Easter eggs! Make that your mantra, and you’ve just banned quite a bit of the toxicity of Easter. Besides, you don’t need plastic Easter eggs, not when there are both beautiful, vegan alternatives to plastic eggs, and beautiful, creative, unusual ways to decorate traditional, edible Easter eggs. Want something to fill with candy?…
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How to Limit Added Sugar in Your Diet
If you want to decrease your risk for heart disease, it may be important for you to reduce the added sugar in your diet. As you know about sugar and heart disease, while sugars are not harmful to the body, our bodies don’t need sugars to function properly. Added sugars—sugars that are not found naturally in foods—contribute…
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9 Tips for Wildflower Hunting
Now that it’s spring, perhaps you are itching to get out in nature and see flowers in all their glory, including the fleeting beauty of wildflowers. What makes a flower a wildflower? American Meadows explains: Those that grow in the wild or on their own, without cultivation, are called wildflowers. Wildflowers indigenous to the continent…