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How to prep your garden with cardboard
How to prep your garden with cardboard

Food & Water

How to prep your garden with cardboard

Learn how to transform cardboard from a product that usually ends up in the waste stream to a soil-enhancing, microbe-boosting, weed-smothering...

The Best Rhubarb Dessert — No Strawberries Needed
The Best Rhubarb Dessert — No Strawberries Needed

Food & Water

The Best Rhubarb Dessert — No Strawberries Needed

Rhubarb crisp

Bug Out On These Five Unusual Snack Ideas
Bug Out On These Five Unusual Snack Ideas

Food & Water

Bug Out On These Five Unusual Snack Ideas

More than 1,700 species of insects are edible, and they're plentiful throughout the world. They're also highly nutritious and easy on the world's...

Why buy a cow when you can get yak milk instead?
Why buy a cow when you can get yak milk instead?

Food & Water

Why buy a cow when you can get yak milk instead?

There's no reason to limit yourself to only chocolate or white, skim or whole. Take a cue from Prince, who soaked his breakfast cereal in yak milk....

Pasta Primavera: The Perfect Recipe for Your Extra Produce
Pasta Primavera: The Perfect Recipe for Your Extra Produce

Food & Water

Pasta Primavera: The Perfect Recipe for Your Extra Produce

It's farmers market and CSA season, and that means getting creative in the kitchen in order to use every last fresh veggie. This pasta primavera...

5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)
5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)

Climate

5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)

You may not know it yet, but you love and depend on bees. Here are some easy things that you can do to help them out.

Earth Day Birthday!
Earth Day Birthday!

Climate

Earth Day Birthday!

Ever wonder why we celebrate Earth Day every April 22?

A Visual Guide to Recycling
A Visual Guide to Recycling

Climate

A Visual Guide to Recycling

A handy infographic guide for recycling at home.