Six Scenarios in Which You Will Need Food Storage
If you’ve ever thought about people who have emergency food storage, the chances are that you picture paranoid people with emergency bomb shelters and bunkers...
Turn your empty beer bottles into reusable glassware using string and lighter fluid
Obviously, your beer bottle glass will have previously contained better beer than this. Business Insider may think that canned beer is better than glass-bottled beer. And...
Climate change is making your apples taste different
How do you like them apples? Because they aren’t the same apples you were eating 40 years ago (good thing too, because GROSS). A new...
Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?
When a study came out in 2012 associating gruesomely lumpy rats with genetically modified food, critics trashed it so thoroughly that a group of researchers...
U.S. government paid $17 billion for weather-withered crops last year
Desiccated corn and sun-scorched soybeans have been in high supply lately — and we’re paying through the nose for them. The federal government forked out...
How Oprah’s Growing Healthier — And You Can Too
After more than 20 years of friendship, Oprah and her favorite health expert, Bob Greene, are taking their love of nourishing foods back to its...
StarLink resurfaces: GM corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings...
Air pollution cause of 200,000 premature US deaths – study
Smoke is released into the sky at the ConocoPhillips oil refinery in San Pedro, California (Reuters/Bret Hartman) Air pollution in major US cities is the...
Top Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit environmental research organization based in Washington, DC, reports that you can lower your pesticide exposure by almost 90 percent...
How to Create Your Own Personal Survival Seed Bank
You have probably heard of seed saving, where you save a plant’s seeds or tubers at the end of a growing season to serve as...
Supersizing Food Storage with BUCKETS
I was asked to give a class one time on storing food in buckets and I definitely could relate to Brian Regan with his cup...
Organic food may be best for kids, pediatricians say
Organic, babies! The American Academy of Pediatrics is weighing in for the first time on the conventional vs. organic debate. Its verdict? An “extensive analysis of...
The Pantry Primer: Meal Planning While You’re Building Your Stockpile
It’s really easy to get sucked into purchasing food for the here and now, and to forget about creating a stockpile. We live in a...
This Week’s Harvest: Peaches
Nothing says summer like taking nibble from a peach, still warm from the sun, that is so juicy it runs down your chin when you...
Organic Foods
Understanding Organic Food Labels, Benefits, and Claims Organic food has become very popular. But navigating the maze of organic food labels, benefits, and claims...
The Art of Dehydrating Foods
It takes some work, depending on the amount of food you are looking to preserve by dehydrating, but the pay-off is definitely worth it. A...