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How To Make A Natural & Very Effective Flea & Tick Powder For Your Pets – Part 2
Anti-Flea And Tick Recipe… Before Applying The Mixture Make Sure That All The Bedding Is Washed First.
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How To Make A Natural & Very Effective Flea & Tick Powder For Your Pets – Part 1
Here is an effective recipe consisting of 4 ingredients that can be safely used on your friends as well as in your garden or patio for repelling and killing fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, ants, spiders and other annoying bugs.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 11
Lichens are complex and unique entities with characteristics not found in either the original fungi or algae. These include slow growth, long life, ability to revive from severe desiccation…
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Inoculation Of Legumes For Free Nitrogen – Part 2
There is considerable diversity in the species of rhizobium used by Australian acacias and native peas, which reflect the vastly different ecosystems in which they grow – wet forest, salt affected soils, arid soils, alkaline soils, acidic soils.
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Inoculation Of Legumes For Free Nitrogen – Part 1
If you want legumes to produce their own nitrogen, you need to have the correct species of rhizobium in your soil. This is especially important if you are growing a crop that you haven’t grown before in that soil, or you are sowing lucerne.
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Eating a plant-based diet increases the number of healthy bacteria living in your gut
If you are interested in balancing your gut researchers have found that eating a plant-based diet, considered by most to be one of the healthiest diets around, enhances good bacteria in your gut and increases it to seven percent, compared to only 0.5 percent in meaty and Western dishes.
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Thought For The Month
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 10
Mycorrhizas are literally ‘fungus-roots’ created by symbiotic associations between plant roots and fungi. Mycorrhizal fungi help their host plants acquire mineral nutrients from the soil in return for plant sugars.
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The Spice of Life: the fundamental role of diversity on the farm and on the plate
The world is witnessing major shifts in dietary patterns and – in parallel – the threat to agricultural biodiversity. The implications for human health and the resilience of our food systems are significant.
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Baking soda – it should be part of our daily health regime
Instead of taking an aspirin a day, sipping some baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) should be part of your daily health regime. New research has found that a daily dose counters the worst effects of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, and it can also reverse kidney disease, heart disease and osteoporosis.
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 9
Within the fungus kingdom, macrofungi are a group that form visible, often coloured, cup- or cap-like structures (scientifically known as ‘fruiting bodies’ or ‘sporophores’) that emerge from the soil.
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Why Organic Gardening?
Organic gardening works with natural systems, using composts, crop rotation, rock dusts, seaweeds and microbes to improve soils, promote healthy plant growth and increase food production.
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How to Use Ginkgo Leaf for Health Benefits
Ginkgo leaf comes from the Ginkgo Biloba tree, also known as the maidenhair fern or the living fossil tree, as its species has remained virtually unchanged for 200 million years. Its leaf is distinguished by single veins running up from the base of the leaf, which turns a glorious yellow in Autumn.
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Thought For The Month
Do Not Educate Your Child To Be Rich, Educate Him To Be Happy; So When He Grows Up He’ll Know The Value Of Things, Not The Price
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 8
The general body-type in this very diverse group is a small cell with a cilium directed backwards that generates locomotion and directs food (mostly bacteria) toward a feeding groove on the ventral surface, as observed in Fornicata. Many groups prefer low oxygen or anaerobic environments.
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The Magic Of Cover Cropping
Farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale farming relies heavily on tillage. Tilling breaks up the soil to kill weeds and prepare for planting. But intense tillage can compact soil, cause erosion, and deplete nutrients. As a result, some farmers are turning to cover crops for weed control.
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Dangers of Pasteurization and Homogenization – Part 2
Homogenization is a more recently invented process and it has been called “the worst thing that dairymen did to milk.” When milk is homogenized, it is pushed through a fine filter at pressures of 4,000 pounds per square inch. In this process, the fat globules are made smaller by a factor of ten times or more.
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Dangers of Pasteurization and Homogenization – Part 1
When certain procedures go unquestioned, we accept them as being “just the way things are.” But pasteurization and homogenization denature foods. They alter the chemical structure of food, make fats rancid, destroy nutrients and result in the formation of free radicals in the body.
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Thought For The Month
Do Not Take Lightly Small Good Deeds Believing They Can Hardly Help For Drops Of Water, One By One, In Time Can Fill A Giant Pot
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Diversity Of Soil Organisms – Part 7
Stramenopiles are unicellular organisms with two cilia that beat in different directions: a front one that includes tiny hairs (visible on electron microscope images) that pulls the cell, and a trailing one that pushes the cell.
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The Benefits Of Alternative Farming Methods
Small-scale farmers produce food for 70% of the global population. Yet, they are some of the world’s poorest and most food insecure people. Permaculture programmes are more multifunctional than typical agricultural development programs. This is important given the growing call for “triple-win solutions” for agriculture, health, and environmental sustainability.
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8 Surprising Benefits of Rose Tea
The many health benefits of rose tea include its ability to ease menstrual pains, prevent chronic disease, boost the immune system, speed healing, improve digestion, detoxify the body, relieve respiratory infections, stimulate mood and regulate your sleep cycle.