Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
List of Natural Gifts For Mother’s Day
by Svetlana Konnikova
Fresh flowers are always winners for any holidays, especially as a gift of Love and Appreciation for a fast approaching Mother’s Day. These beautiful masterpieces of Nature are appreciated by many women even more than diamonds and other pretentious gifts. Anyway, how many people will buy these expensive “rocks” now, in dull and gloom, uncertain and psychologically tiring economic [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Green Stimulus, Your Health And Wellness
by Svetlana Konnikova
Sometimes your life is so busy and you don’t have time for picnics or any activities outdoors in the beauty of nature, but the Stream Garden will always be there for you with its healing plants, berries, fruits and vegetables. Ancients used every piece of the plant: seeds, flowers, roots, stems, bark and fruit to treat [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Save Money And Create Your Personal Organic Garden
by Svetlana Konnikova
Popularity of vegetable gardens started around the globe long ago. This spring, First Lady, Michelle Obama decided to digging up a patch (1100 sq.ft.) of the South Lawn to plant an organic vegetable garden. Long before, in 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt realized a need for fresh fruits and vegetables in everyday diet, and created her victory garden in World War [...]
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Organic Stream Garden In Your House
by Svetlana Konnikova
For many centuries humans have developed a close contact with the world of plants, but even so we have strayed far from Mother Nature. Increasingly, as time goes by, we lose this valuable connection with the perfect world of trees and herbs. More and more our precious rain forests with their abundance of [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
A Day of Celebration of Our Green Planet
by Svetlana Konnikova
Today is the 39th Earth Day. This sunny day is started as a holiday of celebration of our green planet and nature in 1970 to honor our generous earth, to promote sustainable living and ideas of ecology, to encourage people to respect our planet and express our concerns about preservation the soil without [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Green Spring Salads For Your Healthy Diet
by Svetlana Konnikova
If you think you need to buy a bottle of fancy dressing for your salads in a grocery store, look at the listed ingredients and think again. They don’t look good to me, especially high sodium content, which means processed food. So I make my own, 100% natural, nutritious and tasteful dressing that I call [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Five Tips From My Kitchen Pharmacy
by Svetlana Konnikova Do you love Nature? If your answer is “Yes,” you can easily explore her green pharmacy and turn it into your kitchen pharmacy. Look in your kitchen cupboard for yellow onion, garlic, cabbage, ginger or apple. You can also add to this list beets, potatoes and coffee beans.
This vegetable called Bonbon de Nature [...]
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Our Earth, A Fountain of Energy
Relax, you have a whole weekend! Go to the park, walk on the warm sand of the Florida beach, ride a bike or just take your convertible and drive along the ocean in California or anywhere else your soul desires. Do what makes you happy!
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), an American ecologist, forester and environmentalist, philosopher, educator, [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Green Spring Soups For Your Healthy Diet
by Svetlana Konnikova As you know from our previous post Stinging Nettles: a Gift of Spring, the Nettle or Urtica Dionica is one of the most successful plants-weeds that can be found widely grown in our backyards, hedgegrows, and along the countryside roads. Do you still remember playing with other children outside in the beauty [...]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Research, Opinions and Confusion About Your Health
by Svetlana Konnikova
Today we read hundreds of articles recommending people eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day and promising that these gifts of Nature will reduce your risk of cancer and other illnesses. If you’ll seriously research where and what kind of studies are conducted to proof the “fruits and vegetables panacea,” you’ll find very [...]
