10 Jan 2016
Question the koala about eucalyptus. Watch her grin. “Hey mate, I sleep in the tree all day long, curled up in my branch nook. I hang out for a few hours at night, feasting on the leaves. I am all about Eucalyptus."
Ask the koala if the leaves make her feel good and she will assure you that she is not ‘high’ as many believe her to be. "Yes, a little sleepy maybe." The leaves contain cineole...
09 Jan 2016
So warm. Yet cool.Calming and sensual.The candle wax and you.A romantic tryst between skin and softness.
Soy nourishes the skin, making it supple and soft and feeling oh so good.
Light a candle. Relax and watch as the melted pool of deliciously nutritious wax forms. Carefully dip into the pool of melted oil and massage onto the skin. (You can blow out the candle or carefully dip beneath it....
29 Sep 2015
Halloween is one of kid’s favorite holidays. Transforming them selves. Leaving the house after dark. Entering neighbor’s spooky yards. And of course, to Mom’s detriment… the sugar rush.
But should we stop to consider if this is all safe? We talk about street safety, but there are other elements we need to consider while they morph into gooey goblins.
The three biggest Halloween poisons are face...
11 Sep 2015
Song for Autumn
In the deep falldon’t you imagine the leaves think howcomfortable it will be to touchthe earth instead of thenothingness of air and the endlessfreshets of wind? And don’t you thinkthe trees themselves, especially those with mossy,warm caves, begin to thinkof the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleepinside their bodies? And don’t you hearthe goldenrod whispering goodbye,...
28 Aug 2015
"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"Emile M. Cioran
Summer heat breeds fruit flies. Lots of them apparently. I’m sure that we are not the only ones to be suffering from these annoying and kind of gross flying pests. A wee bit of biology here: a female can lay up to 500 eggs if given the chance and prefers to do so in very ripe fruits and vegetables. So,...
22 Jun 2015
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.E. O. Wilson
Last year was truly a year of discoveries in my vegetable garden. Unfortunately most discoveries were of the pesky insect and wild animal variety. With our children’s and our health to worry about, we don’t spray anything that could harm...
10 Feb 2015
Parties, parades, packed pubs and much madness abound on St. Patty’s day. It is a day for the Irish to celebrate, to honour St Patrick, to wear green, be seen and be silly. It is a day to honour the famed four-leaf clover.
Have you ever sought that elusive four- leaf clover to bring you good luck?
As a little girl my friends and I used to hunt for four- leaf clovers on our front lawn. “It...
09 Jan 2015
Do you beat and twist the fibers to make ropes and mats?
Do you extract the wood sap to make a blue dye for fabric?
Do you treat your skin to the precious soft kernel oil?
Do you use the leaf powder as a food supplement?
However you play the tree, you will benefit.
Known to the Nigerians, as idagbo monoye, this “crazy growing tree ‘, has roots that taste like horseradish and pods that look...
04 Nov 2014
Are you sick and tired of the chemicals in your and your children’s toothpaste? So were we. Earth to Body is proud to present a truly GREEN tooth cleanser!
Your teeth will love you. Your mouth will love you. Your dentist will love you.
Now ask yourself. Do I know what a typical commercial toothpaste contains?
Does it contain microbeads? (the polyethylene that is now being banned?)Does it...
22 Sep 2014
…how much they love to chew the leaves and meaty fruit of the gnarly argan tree, native to Morocco. Climbing the tree is child’s play, they’ll say, and sometimes as many as 8 or 9 goats will challenge the swaying limbs. They do not seem to care if they damage or destroy the tree, or eat the fruit before it has ripened. After all, they are goats.
Ask the goats about the succulent argan oil...
