can literally suck the life out of your plants. One of the challenges of being environmentally conscious is how to get rid of those pests without harminggarden plantsor contaminating the environment with potentially harmful pesticides. An insecticidal soap made from a common household dish detergent,...
Join Krista Dawn Poulton for this education series from Farm to Medicine, learning about the plants at Krista’s herb farm in the Cowichan Valley. Workshop Series: Medicinal Soap-Making, Salves & Balms, Dermatology, Tincture Processing and more!
Tender plants will be moved into the greenhouse for the duration of 20°(F) nights: Don’s Bonsai trees, our newest tree peony, and the curry plant (which is not the same as the spice you buy in the store which is actually a blend of spices). It is time to earmark seed catalogs ...
(I’m the “crazy lady” you see out there, raising my hoe and socking it to the sticker plants by the side of our roads, eliminating the tumbleweeds and burr-heads that spread down the Valley each year). Thanks to my efforts, I see a dramatic decline in the blight, which inspires ...
Ethnobiologists commonly analyze local knowledge systems related to plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems. However, microbes (bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, and other organisms), often considered invisible in their interactions with humans, are often
coalition. The Communists broke up strikes in the railways and meat packing plants (owned by Anglo-American interests) and strenuously fought the anti-imperialist descamisados. “For capitalist oligarchy a communist party is better than a Justicialist enemy,” declared a popular Peronist slogan of...
Why kill whales for soap, or fuel or paints and varnishes, even margarine, if we had substitutes for all those products? The seemingly senseless slaughter focused the world’s attention on the whale and consequently the International Whaling Commission or IWC. “And since it’s said nowhere in...
tested were mainly oil based, soy based and reacted soy methyl ester based. The colors were colors such as black, blue, red and magenta. Besides being able to clean ink, the cleaning composition can effectively clean grease, grime, soap scum, nicotine stains as well as other soiled ...