June 2010

Ways to Make Money From Your Herb Garden

June 30, 2010

I have come into my possession material that varies in age from 1 to 13 years regarding profit from the marketing of herbs and spices. My caveat to you is the material is RAW and unedited. I’ll be spending the time in the month of July editing the content and making it current. For example, [...]

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Home Security – How Intruder Alert Systems Have Evolved

June 28, 2010

Older burglar alarms were fairly elementary. A door or window was opened at the wrong time and an alarm went off, either in the house or at a remote location or both. Installing them required adding wiring and attached devices – an expensive propostion. But security systems have evolved greatly over the past twenty years, [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – How To Create Compost

June 27, 2010

Creating your own compost is easy and provides an excellent natural fertilizer. Compost is a mixture of organic materials – leaves, manure, table scraps and more – left in a pile to decay. Naturally occurring soil organisms will work on the material and eventually break it down into a fine, homogeneous soil additive for your [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – Container Gardening

June 21, 2010

Growing vegetables in containers – whether inside the house, in a greenhouse or just on the porch – has many advantages. Soil maintenance is easier. Pest control is simpler. There are more options for adjusting light and temperature levels. Most vegetables that can be grown outdoors will do well in containers. Pumpkins and cucumbers, both [...]

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Camping – Camping Around the World

June 21, 2010

There are hundreds of campsites around the U.S. and Canada, and around Europe, Australia and many other parts of the globe. Whether you like desert areas, evergreen trees, lakes and mountains, or even swampland, there’s a campsite to match your taste. You can camp out in the hot sands of Arizona or Nevada. You can [...]

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America – The Grim Truth

June 18, 2010

By Lance Freeman – Escape from America Magazine, June 10,2010 Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of [...]

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Hydroponics – Lighting the Hydroponic Garden

June 17, 2010

Most plants grown in a hydroponic setting require light, lots of it. They photosynthesize to produce their own nutrients. They require warmth to keep biochemical reactions going, and going at the right rate. They regulate many processes by the amount of light present, speeding some up and shutting down others. During photosynthesis plants take in [...]

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Solar Power – Solar Water Treatment

June 2, 2010

Using the energy from the sun to generate electricity gets a lot of press. But there are many other applications for solar power. One of the most important is for treating water. Many countries around the world have impure water that causes diarrhea, typhus and other medical problems. The same is true of certain areas [...]

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