Harvesting Dill Seeds

04-14-2009 • Expert Village

Harvesting dill seeds is easy. Anyone who cans pickles, or wants to have a personal stash of dill for making bread or seasoning stew will want to see this video. I love dill and wouldn't want to be without it.

Pressure canning beans for food storage - Video

04-12-2009 •

Short video showing the basics of pressure canning green beans. One of the goals to work for with self-sufficiency, homesteading and/or preparedness is growing and putting up (preserving) enough food to last from one season to the next.

GMO Clones, the FDA, HR 875, and Congress

04-07-2009 • Surviving the Middle Class Crash

It’s one thing to go to a farmer’s canola field and take samples back to the lab for testing to see if they contain the patented GM gene, but a whole cow? Not likely.

Pistachio Recall Signals Tough Stance on Safety

04-06-2009 • NY Times

As the nation’s second-largest processor of pistachios ["voluntarily"] agreed to recall its entire 2008 crop despite no confirmed illnesses, the Obama administration issued a tough warning to all food makers that sloppy manufacturing

Monsanto’s GM Soy Causes Illness and Death

04-06-2009 • DW-TV

The results of intensive cultivation of Monsanto’s GM soy, as reported by DW-TV: dead soil, resistant weeds, increased pesticide use, human illness, and animal deaths.

Voluntary test nipped tainted pistachios in bud

04-01-2009 • AP

The reason it didn't take dozens of illnesses for federal regulators to learn about salmonella-tainted pistachios has nothing to do with federal regulations. Routine but voluntary testing by a manufacturer for Kraft Foods Inc. first detected the

The Dark Side of Vegetarianism

04-01-2009 • Healthday

[hah, I knew it] Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. The study found that twice as many teens and nearly double the number of young adults who had been v

The Health Freedom eAlert Mailing List / Newsletter

03-28-2009 • The Natural Solutions Foundation

Mission of the Foundation is to discover, develop, demonstrate and disseminate natural solutions. Natural Solutions Foundation has pursued vigorous programs, including natural solutions to significant social problems involving health and wellness.

URGENT: Act to Protect Food Safety From Monsanto Operative!

03-28-2009 • salsa.democracyinaction.org

Food is, as we have been saying for some time, the central battle for freedom and survival. "Change", which sounds great, has, in fact, become the mantra of those who seek corporate triumph over independent producers - and it's happeni

A Nation of Small Farmers - Start Your Freedom Garden Now!

03-27-2009 • Shirley Braverman

Shirley gives advice on how to Garden on the Cheap. Start your Freedom Garden now!

Homegrown Revolution - Radical Change Taking Place

03-26-2009 • Path to Freedom

Localize yourself. Start a Freedom Garden today! “In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can - and will - overturn the corporate powers that be.” (Path to Freedom)

Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup

03-25-2009 • ISIS

Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops.

Sold! Bargain-Hunters Buying Groceries at Auction

03-24-2009 • Yahoo! News

As consumers seek relief from the recession and spiraling food prices, grocery auctions are gaining in popularity as an easy way to cut costs.

America's Silent Killing Fields - 2009 Update

03-23-2009 • Barbara H. Peterson

America’s silent killers are deadly, and do not discriminate. They target babies, the elderly, teenagers, young adults, middle-age housewives, and businessmen alike.

Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House

03-19-2009 • NY Times

[Get the message? Think they'll go hungry?] Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's victory garden in World War II.

Seeds - How to Criminalize Them

03-19-2009 • Linn Cohen-Cole

The effort is to take over the whole game by simply defining seeds as food and then all farmers’ affordable mechanisms for harvesting (collecting), sorting (seed cleaning) and storing (seed banking or saving) as too dirty to be safe for food.

A Call to Boycott Monsanto - Seminis Seeds

03-19-2009 • Farm Wars

Boycott Monsanto/Seminis seeds. Save the seeds from your heirloom crops and start your own seed bank, because very soon, clean seeds will be unavailable unless they come from you or your neighbor.

Price battles looming for food makers

03-15-2009 • Reuters

"That is probably going to be one of their greatest challenges -- how can they maintain pricing they have taken at this juncture," ... Worries about pricing and brand loyalty are evident in the weakened share prices of name-brand food manuf

Say Goodbye to farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands

03-12-2009 • treehuggersofamerica.org

The above so called "food safety" bills in Congress were written by the nation-less corporations such as; Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. These bills are all associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?

Federal Ban on Organic Farms/Gardens

03-12-2009 • opednews.com/

Refuse to support the rising dictatorship. Refuse any new rules telling us what we can and cannot eat. Recall your congressional representatives. And reconsider the meaning of April 15.

Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease

03-10-2009 • Jeffrey M. Smith

Particle bombardment can cause unpredictable changes and mutations in the DNA, which might result in new types of proteins that can have allergenic or toxic properties, but no one at Monsanto had done a safety assessment on them.