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Vegetable Garden In Your Front Lawn - Save Money While Living Sustainably

Vegetable Garden In Your Front Lawn - Save Money While Living Sustainably
Shawna Coronado’s front lawn organic vegetable and herb garden. When I first began the journey of removing the grass from my front lawn and installing 5,000 pounds of rotted buffalo manure in 2009, I had no idea where it would lead. In the first year I learned a lot of hard lessons and soon realized... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
July 18, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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Traveling Ireland - Meeting An Organic Cow Farmer and Visiting the Burren

View from James Howard’s home in Ireland; the Burren in all its glory. In the Northwest corner of County Clare, Ireland, there is a remarkable place called The Burren. This region of Ireland is composed of mountainous limestone pavements, eroded in Vincent Cleary of Glenisk, and James Howard, together with James cows in Ireland. a unique pattern known as karren. Beneath... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
June 18, 2010 at 6:58 pm
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What does "Organic Food" really mean? A Green Answer I Discovered In Ireland

Bill, the charming 3 year old from the video, eating organic yogurt. Internationally, the most widely held definition of “organic” is food that is farmed or processed without the use of pesticides, antibiotics or genetically altered organisms. Why should you consider organic food an important choice for your family? Because children’s exposure to chemicals at... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
June 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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Traveling Ireland - Organic and Healthy

  Jan Boons and Monique Shreven stand with their goats and family on their farm near Portumna, Ireland. In traveling to Ireland I expected green and friendly. What I got was far beyond anything I could have imagined.   Ireland‘s natural world is filled with beauty: Green rolling hills which undulate as far as the... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
June 3, 2010 at 2:01 am
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Which is better: organic food or locally produced non-organic food?

One of my favorite television commercial series from the ’80′s is the “Brain On Drugs Commercial” (seen above). When asking the question, “Which is better: organic food or locally produced non-organic food?” As you consider the video, I would like you to substitute the words “non-organic food” for the word “drugs”. Definitively, organic foods are... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 20, 2010 at 3:10 pm
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