Category: Herbs

422: Stacey Murphy on Setting Goals for Growing

Gathering gurus to help gardens grow – Growing up gardening side-by-side with her parents helped Stacey Murphy have a solid connection with food. She lost this connection when she went to college and began working as an engineer and architect. It wasn’t until she was living in…

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Make Your Own Cleaner

By Guest blogger – Waste is not a bad thing. In fact, it is the stuff of which new stuff is made in permaculture.  If you are reading this blog, you have most likely already learned from Farmer Greg what permaculture is all about and how it can regenerate the planet and help you grow abundantly.  If you are…

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A world without antibiotics

by Guest blogger: William Bruneau – We are fast approaching a time when pharmaceutical anti-pathogens (antibiotics, antifungals, anti-malarials, etc) will essentially be useless, forever more. It is hard to imagine a world without anti-pathogens, where diseases and infections cannot be cured. Easy to grow and simple medicinals make…

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412: William Bruneau on the Genus Sida

Growing an herbal antibiotic – Bill Bruneau suffered from what eventually was diagnosed as a leaky gut caused by using pharmaceutical antibiotics. Knowing that plants had medicinal powers he searched out which ones were natural antibiotics and came upon limited but intriguing information on…

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RECIPE: Garlic and Herb Focaccia

By Guest Blogger: Ron Mantini – We enjoy making this bread on Sundays in my home as Sunday is always Pasta day and bread is a fantastic side dish for any pasta.  The smell of the focaccia baking is incredible and all of my kids start running to the kitchen when they get whiff of it.  Its especially a great use of our fresh…

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