Growing Solutions for Healthy Soil
How Tropical Storm Allison Blew Me into the Cell Phone Age As a newly hired postdoc, I joined the cell phone age in the year 2001. I was not an early adopter. While many of my colleagues and extended family already wore phones daily, I had delayed my entry into this corner of the technological … Read more
Natural Beef is Simply Too Good to Let Excess Fat Go to Waste! Naturally grazed and fattened beef that has never been exposed to high density feed lots or supermarket distribution systems is one of the best kept secrets on the market. I buy mine from a custom meat processor named Joe. I’d tell you where his shop … Read more
Fast relief for sneezing, wheezing, sniffling, and more. When seasonal allergies have you sneezing and wheezing, rapid and effective relief can be found with essential oils. Now before I expand on this. I do need to share my standard disclosure: I am not an MD and I don’t diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure disease. … Read more
The Announcements of Nobel Prizes represent current events that are changing our the world around us. This year’s announcement of an award to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discovery of the genes and mechanisms relevant to autophagy (a recycling system within the cells) offers an excellent introduction to important cellular organelles most of us learn little about … Read more
A recent (2014) study published by Monika Krüger and colleagues in the Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology revealed the presence of glyphosate residues in grazing and foraging animals and in people, highlighting key problems associated with a herbicide that targets an entire kingdom of primary producers. Glyphosate residues were found in hares and rabbits, cattle, … Read more
The 20th Century Moved Us Into a Specialized, Fragmented, Industrialized World. In the conservative1980’s, as a student in the college of agriculture at New Mexico State University, I was engaged in frequent class discussions and debates regarding the loss of family farms, trends towards larger and more technologically advanced corporate farms, and the the … Read more