Purple Sage Medicinal Herbs
Welcome to Purple Sage Medicinal Herbs. This website is maintained by a Medical Herbalist as an information resource for those interested in medicinal herbs and their applications, including students of complementary and alternative medicine, botanists, gardeners, cooks, and anyone wanting to learn more about traditional herbal medicine. If you are intending to use herbal medicines yourself you should first read the safety statement. Site Contents Herb Profiles: An expanding database of monographs on individual herbs and their medicinal uses. These can be located by either the Common or Botanical name and are accompanied by a glossary of medical terminology used in the text. Treatments: This section deals with a selection of common ailments and possible herbal treatments. Shop: Buy dried herbs, herbal capsules, lotions & potions, books, gifts and much more. Books and Equipment shop: In association with Amazon, all the herbal books and equipment you'll need, all in one place. Back to top
About Us - CleanGreens
The Black Dollar Days Task Force recognizes that African Americans are underrepresented in farming in Washington. Currently, there is no local market in King County that supplies the types of vegetables that are relevant to the African American and African immigrant food culture. Low income communities frequently do not have access to fresh, wholesome produce and have higher rates of poor diet related illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and elevated cholesterol. Clean Greens Farm & Market, under the umbrella of Black Dollar Days Task Force, operates as an agricultural producer engaged in the production of chemical-free greens. The goal of the Clean Greens & Market program is five-fold: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To help achieve these goals, the Task Force has signed a 5 year lease on 23 acres of land in Duvall, eastern King County for use by the Clean Greens Project. Photo courtesy of Camille Dohrn
Sustainable Eats & the Dancing Goat Gardens Communal Project | Because Food Doesn't Have to Come From the Store
The roles and values of wild foods in agricultural systems
Abstract Almost every ecosystem has been amended so that plants and animals can be used as food, fibre, fodder, medicines, traps and weapons. Historically, wild plants and animals were sole dietary components for hunter–gatherer and forager cultures. 1. ‘Any bloke hungry in this country just silly’ (Yarralin man, Northern Territory, Australia: in Bird Rose 1996), p. 99 ‘What do you mean by weeds? Globally, an estimated 1.02 billion people are undernourished (FAO 2009). We summarize the best available evidence for the importance and values of wild foods (see Scoones et al. 1992; Heywood 1999; Posey 1999; MEA 2005; Kuhnlein et al. 2009). 2. (a) Stereotypes A central assumption about non-agricultural societies has been that they represent an earlier stage of cultural evolution, or the outcome of cultural devolution (Barnard 1999). Evidence has revealed the limitations of these perspectives (Kent 1989; Kelly 1995). (b) The management of non-agricultural environments Table 1. Table 2. 3.
Farmers of the Future
0inShare Share Interview by Daniel Kane Robin Mednick is the Executive Director and Vice President of Pencils for Kids, a Toronto non-profit focused on providing school supplies and building schools for children in Niger. John Craig is a co-founder of Eliminate Poverty Now, a New Jersey non-profit focused on creating economic opportunity for people in Africa through employment education and child development. Recently, both organizations teamed up with Dov Pasternak, a scientist with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) who’s spent the last decade working with smallscale farmers in Niger, to pilot Farmers of the Future, a program aimed at giving young people the skills to transition from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture. The mission of FOF is stated as enabling small farmers to make the transition from subsistence farming to agribusiness by educating young people. Why do you choose to focus on young people, rather than adults?
15 ways to celebrate agriculture on Earth Day
Agriculture: it doesn’t have to steamroll the environment to be productive. For over 40 years, Earth Day has served as a call to action, mobilizing individuals and organizations around the world to address environmental challenges. Agriculture, often blamed as a driver of these problems, is emerging a solution to environmental problems. It’s a source of food and income for the world’s poor and a primary engine for economic growth. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems (Community Resilience Guides) eBook: Philip Ackerman-Leist, Deborah Madison
Gardening by the Phases of the Moon
The moon has four phases or quarters lasting about seven days each. The first two quarters are during the waxing or increasing light, between the new and the full moon. The third and fourth quarters are after the full moon when the light is waning, or decreasing. Planting by the moon is an idea as old as agriculture, based both in folklore and superstition, but there are scientific ideas to back it up The Earth is in a large gravitational field, influenced by both the sun and moon. The tides are highest at the time of the new and the full moon, when sun and moon are lined up with earth. Just as the moon pulls the tides in the oceans, it also pulls upon the subtle bodies of water, causing moisture to rise in the earth, which encourages growth. For more information about how lunar planting works, including research and references, continue on to the next page, or skip to the topic of your choice. At the new moon, the lunar gravity pulls water up, and causes the seeds to swell and burst.
Developing Agriculture
Introduction For 25 years I've been fascinated by one approach to tending the land. For these 25 years I have been caught in this tension between feeling in my gut that something was 'right', but not finding it easy to use my rational filters to evaluate the means to these wonderful ends. I am now familiar with biodynamics, and have become fond of it: partly because of its focused eccentricity, partly because it has taken personal investment even to come to a rudimentary grip with biodynamics, partly because that investment has exposed a very thorough foundation to biodynamic practices, and partly because it seems to be very effective at a time when benign effectiveness in agriculture is sorely needed. Therefore, having enabled this site to collate and evaluate star-plant experiences, Considera offers the same for pest and weed peppering, and has uncovered a lot of interesting work concerning the use of potentised preparations for the soil and its creatures.
Family Farm Defenders
From farmer to consumer: How to make direct marketing work
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Consumers these days are eager to buy the ripest, freshest, high-quality fruits and vegetables they can find, and many farmers are stepping up to fill the demand at farmers' markets, roadside stands and U-pick operations. Farmers who consider selling directly to the public understand that they can save money if they eliminate middlemen, but might need marketing advice to succeed. A wealth of details on how to make farmer-to-consumer marketing work is available in a series of newly revised publications from Oregon State University Extension Service. The OSU publications help farmers evaluate their marketing needs and expectations and provide information on market alternatives. "Self-evaluation is also a key," said Larry Burt, an OSU Extension economist and co-author of the series. "Although additional income is often the first reason farmers decide to become retailers, many enjoy the flexibility of owning their own business,” he added.
