BioDiVita

Day January 13, 2022

Food Forest

Food Forest Image source:  A forest is a eco-system with great diversity of plants, animals & fungi all harmonizing together & interacting in many layers. Designed by nature & maintained as a system in perfect balance. Imagine that definition…

Permaculture

Permaculture   Perma-what? Permanent + agriculture (which had been expanded to include culture). The root word “permanent” is intended as a reference to sustainability – an unsustainable society would, by definition, eventually cease to exist; it would be impermanent. Practitioners…

Meat, meet Mushroom! You got competition!

Fungi · Edibles January 13, 2022 ✦ Fungi & Edibles Mushrooms may not be protein-rich, but they have an earthy, umami flavour that allows them to be used in place of meat — and some are surprisingly nutrient-dense too. Mushrooms…

Accumulated a Mountain of Ad Flyers?

Got a ton of Advertisement Flyers? Use them as both composting container & material ! Kitchen cone A simple, easy, way to collect compostable food scraps! Three easy steps: Line the cone with newspaper. Put daily food scraps in the…

How to freeze bananas….like a BOSS!

Don’t you hate how fast bananas ripen? And then when you go to freeze them, they all clump together like a massive pack of ice.  When you want to make a smoothie with just one banana, you gotta find some…

Soap Making Basics

I’m going to say right now that I am no expert when it comes to making bar soaps. I’ve experimented with this craft enough to teach it to someone else, but because it works so well that I’m just happy…