Nourish The Planet

Teaching the World to Feed Itself

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Homegrown foods are much more nutritious and delicious than any store bought food. If you love to grow your own food in your backyard, here are 5 tips to maximize your harvest. [READ MORE]

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Some plants grow better and faster together. They are known as companion plants, and they support each other as they grow. Knowing which plants help each other out can help your garden be amazing!

If you love gardening, you should definitely try growing some of the companion plants in your backyard garden. Growing companion plants together in your garden can benefit you in so many different ways. They allow you to grow more crops in less time and also allow you to save space and money. They also help reduce pests and weeds from growing. How amazing is that? [READ MORE]

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Grow all the Food you need in your Backyard!

Backyard gardening is fun, especially if you love the taste of freshly harvested foods. It’s also good for you. No matter where you live, you can grow all the food you need in your backyard!

What if we told you, you could grow all the food you need right at home? All you need is no more than three square feet of land in your backyard.  Another option is to grow food indoors, in containers, or in Aquaponic Tower Gardens. There are many difference ways to grow your own organic foods for your health and food security it is just a matter of finding a way to make it work in your specific situation.[READ MORE]

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5 Tips on Growing Your Own Food In A Raised Bed Garden

  Growing your food in raised bed gardens in your backyard is easier than you think. Here are 5 simple tips to get you started on your raised bed garden [READ MORE]

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Living off the grid has many advantages. It significantly reduces the pressure on fossil fuel use, and thus reduces the environmental impact that most people have on the planet. Here are a few simple alternative energy sources for off the grid living if you choose to do so.

Most Americans will see their energy bills rise as the hot summer gets here with the increase in the use of air conditioning and other kinds of utilities. Cooling our homes or businesses require energy,  and as a result of your energy consumption also impacts the environment in your local area, and as a result of the planet as an extension of that. By living off the grid, you may be able to save money and reduce environmental impacts at the same time which may make your life more simple and economical.[READ MORE]

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Naturally grown foods should not contain any harmful chemicals or residue from pesticides. However, insects and pests are a real challenge for farmers! (READ MORE)

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5 Disease Fighting Vegetables you can Grow in your Backyard Garden

Vegetables contain micronutrients that have the ability to boost your health and fight diseases naturally. Isn’t it amazing that you are able to grow some of these disease fighting vegetables yourself right at home?

What you eat has a profound effect on your health and well-being. If you eat healthy foods, you will see a definite improvement in your health as well as be seeing your levels of energy and clarity rise considerably. You may also know that some healthy fruits and vegetables have therapeutic powers, and some are able to fight diseases naturally, including the potentially fatal diseases cancer! How amazing is it that we can find cures to our ills in nature, but in order to do so effectively, we need to be well informed of what kinds of food you need to have. That is what we are here for!

Here we have growing tips for 5 super disease fighting vegetables, that you can easily start growing at home, either in your backyard garden or indoors in containers.[READ MORE]

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5 Easy Spring Vegetables you can Start Growing Right Now!

Spring is right around the corner, and now is the best time to start planning your spring vegetable garden.

If you enjoy home grown healthy vegetables, what are you waiting for to start your own spring vegetable garden? Vegetables can be categorized on the basis of the cool or warm season. Cool season vegetables are suitable for the fall and spring, and vegetables that need more heat and sunlight are warm weather vegetables, suitable for the summer as you might expect. Your first step to starting a spring vegetable garden is to determine what to grow and where you want to grow it. It will also be important to consider other factors to be able to see what the best-suited vegetables are according to your specific circumstances.

Some of the vegetables cannot be started outside from seeds or starter plants until the weather is warmer and the soil is fully dry and free from frost so you may want to start planting them inside and wait until the weather improves. A variety of vegetables can be planted right now when the season is still cool, become informed on how every vegetable grows so you can do it properly and the vegetables grow in the best possible way.

You can plant hardy and semi-hardy vegetables and crops underneath a row of cover crops or directly on soil without cover crops. Later in March, you can start growing your favorite vegetables. Below we have 5 super nutritious and delicious vegetables that you can easily grow in your spring garden either from seeds or from starter plants.[READ MORE]

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5 Tips for a Natural Organic Garden for Spring

After the long cold winter, you must be really excited to be able to work on your organic garden. Nothing feels better than working on your own garden, outdoors in the spring!

As the year progresses, the days are gradually getting longer and warmer. As you get more and more sunshine outside, it makes an ideal time to start working on your garden so it looks better than ever. Spring is the best time for preparing and building your soil fertility. Below we have 5 essential tips for a natural organic garden for spring. [READ MORE]

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Top 5 Ways to Start Making Money Online Quickly

Making money online has become easier than ever. Anyone can start making money if they have a computer and an internet connection. If you’ve been trying to work from home with your computer, or if you want to make some money part time working from home, you might have...[READ MORE]

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Maintaining & Getting your Fish Pond Ready for the Spring

Spring is here, and your backyard fish pond will come back to life. This means you’ll need to do some maintenance work for your backyard fish pond.

5 Tips for getting your pond ready for the spring:

As the weather warms up, you can start thinking about preparing it for the spring and summer. You can start un-winterizing your backyard fish pond. This means you can undo anything you did to protect your pond during the cold winter season. Clean your pond and start recalculating your pond water.  Below we have five tips for your spring pond maintenance.[READ MORE]

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Plant Soil Ecology – Measuring Soil Health

Spring is right around the corner, and you might be getting ready to start gardening. To get healthy crops you would want your garden soil to be healthy as well.

The secret to growing healthy fruits and vegetables at home is providing them with great nutrients. Plants depend upon the quality of the soil for proper nourishment that can be passed on to the consumers. Every year when you grow plants, they degrade the soil unless your garden is ecologically balanced. Here we are going to show you things that your soil needs to have so that it can provide the best kind of support to your plants, let dig into it! (READ MORE)

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The Ecolonomic Action Team (EAT) makes an Offer You Just Cannot Refuse!

Ecolonomic Action Team (EAT) is a community based on an online platform where people from different walks of life can join and share their ideas and experiences about making the planet better through using methods that are beneficial to humans and the Earth simultaneously. EAT gives you a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded people so we can all come together and build a better future while making some money. What a better way to build a sustainable future for everyone on this planet and at the same time, you have an opportunity to build your future too.

The question remains fairly simple how does all of this to happen? The answer to this question is by building a community which thrives on new ideas, better knowledge, and shared experiences. EAT has come up with a way to build that community so we can all help each other out. Well! How does all of this work? EAT community offers coaching, learning, networking, live events, and the most important of all mentoring. We want to make sure you get the most out of being a part of this special group of people that want to strive for a great life. (READ MORE)

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7 Reasons why you should Grow your Own Food

Do you love gardening? One of the biggest benefits of gardening is that you can grow your own food. You don’t need to be a farmer to grow your own healthy organic foods.  

If you have ever wondered why you should grow your own food, I’ll give you 7 reasons that may motivate you to start doing this. Unlike most people believe, you don’t really need to be a farmer or live in the country to grow plants indoors. You don’t even need a lot of space, time or massive amounts of effort for indoor planting. There are several ways to grow healthy organic foods indoors, any time of the year! Below, I have 7 reasons why you should grow your own food at home, these benefits will hopefully encourage you to do it! (READ MORE)

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5 Home Gardening Tips for the Spring – Start Early!

For those who love gardening, we have some good news. Spring is right around the corner and it’s the time of year when nature renews itself!  

After the long cold winter, you must be eager to go outside and start working on your spring garden so your home starts to feel amazing for the rest of the year. If you love plants, you don’t really need to wait for the weather to warm up, start right now! In our previous blogs, we have discussed how you can still grow plants indoors, all year round and we are going to expand here how to make this happen so you have more information and motivation to go for it.

In this issue, we’ll give you 5 tips on spring gardening. Start early and start enjoying your garden as soon as possible.(READ MORE)

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How to Encourage People to go Paperless

If you are reading this then the chances are that you are amongst the population of fantastic people that are committed to helping the environment and saving our beautiful planet from the damage of pollution and other damaging environmental impacts.

If you feel strongly about eco-friendliness then you are probably already a firm follower of paperless life but unfortunately, there are large sections of the population that are reluctant to move over to paperless bills, bank statements and other ways that others have adopted to help the environment. Sometimes it isn’t ignorance but fear that stops people from being able to adopt paperless methods. According to Intelligent Environments, “Research reveals that UK banking customers receive more than 1.2 billion paper letters and statements from their bank each year.” So you can imagine the difference we could make by reducing this right down by encouraging online banking more. (READ MORE)

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5 Ways to Save Money & Energy in the Winter

Winter is here and it means more energy bills for most American households. Here are 5 tips to help you save money and energy during the winter season.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could save money on your energy bills during the winter? Ecolonomic living is all about saving money and making the planter better while doing it and we are here to show you exactly how to do this!

Even though you may not realize it, electricity companies mostly use fossil fuels to generate electricity. However, there are many alternative energy sources that are being developed all around the world to address the pollution and energy crisis associated with using fossil fuels. So if you save energy during the winter, you are not only saving money but also helping the environment by reducing your carbon footprints on the planet. Would you like to learn more about ecolonomic living? – Read on!

[Join the Ecolonomic Action Team (EAT) community for ecolonomic ideas, tons of free information and live discussions on our webinars. ] (READ MORE)