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Great news for coffee lovers! (with a caveat)

Great news for coffee lovers! (with a caveat) Great news for coffee lovers! (with a caveat)

Are you blocking out this key to vibrant health and well-being?

Are you blocking out this key to vibrant health and well-being? Are you blocking out this key to vibrant health and well-being?

Report: ADD/ADHD can successfully be treated without drugs

Report: ADD/ADHD can successfully be treated without drugs Report: ADD/ADHD can successfully be treated without drugs

First fruits of our Back to Eden garden

First fruits of our Back to Eden garden First fruits of our Back to Eden garden

Study: Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies

Study: Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies Study: Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies

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Great news for coffee lovers! (with a caveat)

May 17, 2012
Great news for coffee lovers! (with a caveat)

Do you look forward to starting your day with a nice cup o’ joe? I do. Well, actually, two big mugs of the stuff (the equivalent of a 4-cup coffee maker) mellowed with 2% organic milk and sweetened with liquid Stevia. It seems the health news pendulum swings wildly when it comes to the topic [...]

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Are you blocking out this key to vibrant health and well-being?

May 14, 2012
Are you blocking out this key to vibrant health and well-being?

What would you do if you knew that there was a key component to good health that many people were intentionally — albeit unwittingly — avoiding? If you’re like me, you’d be frustrated and want to tell everyone you know about this health treasure that so many are working to avoid. What am I talking [...]

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Report: ADD/ADHD can successfully be treated without drugs

May 11, 2012
Report: ADD/ADHD can successfully be treated without drugs

I’ll have to admit, the findings of an analysis published recently in Clinical Psychology Review — that behavior-based methods can be as effective as pharmaceuticals in treating ADD/ADHD symptoms — don’t come as much of a surprise to me. Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been homeschooling my son since he started school, [...]

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First fruits of our Back to Eden garden

May 9, 2012
First fruits of our Back to Eden garden

Yesterday and today, our pups, Skipper and Lucy (that’s Lucy in the image above), accompanied us into the garden to harvest the first edible fruits of our Back to Eden labors. I say ‘edible,’ because over the weekend, I harvested one squash that I had unwittingly let go past its prime, developing a thick, warty [...]

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Study: Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies

May 5, 2012
Image from ECU.edu

A new study reports that Amish farm children have remarkable immunity to allergies. Wonder if it could be all of that raw milk and dairy they consume? Or perhaps it’s the absence of Monsanto grain and poisons in their fields? Or maybe it’s because they spend so much time outdoors around nature, rather than indoors [...]

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Scary genetically-modified rice crop being grown in America’s Heartland

May 3, 2012
Scary genetically-modified rice crop being grown in America’s Heartland

Do you know what’s in your bowl of rice? How can you be sure? Unfortunately, Ventria Bioscience grows its rice engineered with human liver genes in open fields in Kansas. Once cultivated only in laboratory settings, the three approved varieties of this new human liver-infused rice is being grown in the great outdoors where, “potential [...]

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Back to Eden garden showing first signs of fruit

May 1, 2012
Back to Eden garden showing first signs of fruit

I’ve been noticing squash blossoms for a week or so now, but this morning is the first chance I’ve had to go out and take pictures. I am delighted to find the first shapes of fruit on many of the plants in our Back to Eden garden. The great, soaking rains we’ve had recently have [...]

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Obama Administration moves to kill family farms, banning children from farm chores

April 25, 2012
Obama Administration moves to kill family farms, banning children from farm chores

As if our president hasn’t come up with enough America-destroying ideas, now his administration is moving to ban children from performing farm chores. According to an article earlier this morning at The Daily Caller: The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children [...]

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Tech Tips: Dealing with Malware & Viruses

April 25, 2012
Tech Tips: Dealing with Malware & Viruses

NOTE: This will be the last Tech Tip I’ll run for a while. I have so many other things relating to the core focus of this site that I want to post, but I wanted to be sure and get this information out there for those who might find it useful. I’ll run another Tech [...]

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Meet KING ZUCCHINI!

April 23, 2012
King Zucchini - This squash plant is already bigger than my almost 9-year-old son!

Now here’s a plant worthy of a blog post all on its own! We’re now calling this grandiose garden feature KING ZUCCHINI for its massive size in the middle of our Back to Eden garden. My almost 9-year-old son, Isaac, is amazed that the leaves are already bigger than his head! And this one has [...]

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