The Roots of your Garden are in the Soil

High quality soil is the key to any healthy herb garden. First, you must determine what type of soil you have, and then you can establish a plan for improving and/or maintaining it. This is one of the most important aspects of gardening because, along with needing water and sun, plants need nutrients that they [more...]

The Healthiest People In The World - What Are The Benefits Of Natural Foods?

Here is what natural health foods and natural living have done for these people:

1. Men live to be over 90. Many men become fathers when they are well up in their 60’s and even 70’s. 2. Some of the Hunzukuts are about 120 years of age and look no more than 60 or 70. They are not only in advanced years but are able to do the work of a youngster! [more...]

Longevity And Living Nutrition From Other Cultures Around The World

Viktoras Kulvinskas shares on what we can learn about longevity and living nutrition from other cultures around the [more...]

Excerpt: Putnam’s Vegetable Book

Beans thrive best in a rather warm, sandy loam, but are not difficult to raise in almost any kind of soil. The soil should not be too rich in nitrogenous matter, or there will be an overabundance of foliage and stems. This will result in a poor yield of seed pods. Heavy clay is not well adapted to growing beans, as it bakes easily and prevents the seeds from germinating [more...]

Putnam's Vegetable Book

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Originally published in 1917 under the title “1,000 Hints on Vegetable Gardening”, this book deserves a place on every vegetable gardener’s bookshelf. It is a valuable collection of common sense and the type of knowledge that can only come from [more...]

Excerpt: The Wheel of Health

Robert McCarrison, now Major-General Sir Robert McCarrison, qualified as a medical practitioner at Queen’s University, Belfast, in 1900. He entered the Indian Medical Service and sailed for India on his 23rd birthday.
He was posted as regimental medical officer to the Indian troops, stationed as warden to the frontier march of Chitral, between the Gilgit Agency on the east and Afghanistan on the west. It is in the heart of a country which, as we shall see in the penultimate chapter, is likely to prove one of the utmost significance in the history of [more...]

The Wheel of Health

Cover: The Wheel of Health

Good health is an attractive state, but it can be a very dull topic. Everything depends on how it is
approached. Dr Wrench attracts our attention at once, by asking “Why not research health as well as [more...]

Friend Earthworm

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The problem facing civilization today is rebuilding the soil and restoring the earth to a form usable for food production. Through the slow processes of nature, it takes 500 to 1,000 years to lay down an inch of topsoil. Under favorable conditions, a task-force of earthworms can do the same job in five [more...]