Site Overlay

Author: Peter Wampler

Dress for Gardening
Featured
Posted atInCategoriesBlog

How to Dress for Gardening

Gardening can be a very therapeutic activity. It’s also an extremely productive one. However, doing all the work is not as easy as one might think. Even thinking about the clothes you need to wear is not something that you should take lightly because, unfortunately, shorts and custom t-shirts are not the best ones to wear when doing work in the garden. To help you be more efficient with your gardening, here are some clothing tips you may need:
Long Sleeves
You will feel the heat of the sun when you’re out gardening. You may be tempted…

Featured
Posted atInCategoriesBlog

Processed Food: The True Definition

Processed food isn’t all about just changing the physical structure. This is all about treating it with chemical or mechanical procedures in order to preserve its freshness when sold in the market. However, this is not really a bad thing.
Some of the mechanical and chemical processes to preserve food are canning, freezing, drying, and even baking. These are …

Featured
Posted atInCategoriesGrowing

Best Herbs for the Canadian Garden

Here are five of the best garden herbs that you can plant to your garden.
Sage
This is a perennial herb with greyish-green leaves and woody stems. This is best planted in a container as it likes a drier planting environment. It is harvested by pinching off the stems and leaves and is usually used as dry or fresh.
Parsley
An annual herb in the colder regions and biennial in warm regions…

Featured
Posted atInCategoriesGrowing

Specialty Vegetables for Any Canadian Garden

While these vegetables on the list are not easily found in the market, you can have them in your garden instead. Here are five of the uncommon, special vegetables you can plant in your garden.
Chinese Cabbage
Also known as Napa Cabbage, this vegetable is best planted during the spring season when the frost had subdued. Space them at …

Featured
Posted atInCategoriesBlog

These Questions Will Help You Understand Foods Labelled as Natural

Buying an all-natural food product can be a challenge, especially when marketing strategies include deceiving consumers to buy their products by using the “natural” label. However, these questions can help you sort through those and purchase only the most organic and natural food products:
Is the Food Made Out of Meat or Poultry?
It is best to check whether a food has …

Featured
Posted atInCategoriesBlog

Are GMO Foods Safe for Consumption?

If you feel like the foods you have known and grown up have become less healthy than they should be, you are not definitely alone. However, many have come to believe in the stigma that GMO products are not safe for human consumption. This is proven to be false beliefs.
…