In today’s world organic living is a smart way to go



If you ever look around one day in the grocery store you will notice how many synthetically produced products there are in the world. Even if food such as fruits and vegetables have had contact with synthetically produced chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. While synthetically produced products have helped us greatly they have also hurt us as well. The DDT pesticide that was responsible for a major environmental impact and subsequently banned for agricultural use, along with plastics that will never biodegrade are just a couple of the many synthetic materials that helped us but in the long run will ruin the environment for future generations.  There is a simple yet effective way to help control this type of problem in your own house, just go organic. Organic living really isn’t all that hard a type of life style to get use to. You don’t have to jump right in it immediately and do a 180 in your lifestyle. You can slowly ease your way into organic living or at least take up a few habits of the organic life style. Organic gardening is a good way to slide into the organic lifestyle. For those of you with gardens or wanting to start a garden in the house there are many ways to have an organic garden in your house. Using compost from your house which is just a pile of organic materials such as grass clippings, dog feces, and organic left over from meals left to rot and decompose into fertile soil. Or you can buy organic fertilizer from the store. Cow manure is the most popular kind but they have it in granules you can spread over the garden and yard as well as liquid that can be spread used a hose. With an organic garden you don’t even have to worry about using synthetic pesticides on your organic garden. There are a few ways to prevent pest from attacking and eating your garden. One good way to keep pests away as an organic pesticide is companion planting. What that does is it naturally reduces the amount of pests that are attracted to the plants. A few examples of companion planting are cucumbers planted with beans, sunflowers, and corn. Or if you don’t want to companion plant then a simple mix of crushed onions or garlic in a spray water bottle with a bit of vegetable oil mixed in. spray the plants and it will stay on the plant and the pest when they land or if they are on the plants. That will kill them in a safe plant organic way. Just a simple way to start and maintain a little organic garden for yourself you can even save a little bit of money on buying vegetables from the market place.

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There are many ways to live a green life



Lately you have heard a lot about the need to live a green eco friendly life. Which is quiet easy it is just the use of more natural materials from easily renewable resources or from recycled materials. Just to name a few ways to live more green friendly. There are many ways to live green even insect control such as for cockroaches which no one wants to have in their house. Instead of just going out and buying bug sprays with waste not only gas and release toxic’s that small children or pets could pick up and ingest. A simple way is out of the way of were children and pets can get to put some natural borax powder were the roaches are active. The powder will get on the roaches and then they will lick it off and it will kill them. It is easy because instead of having to continually keep spraying the bug spray. You sprinkle a little bit on there and it will stay there for a while. There are even simple ways to keep pets in a more green way. With a cat, instead of using the clay litter that is strip mined from the earth. Instead you can use silica pearls, recycled newspaper, or corn cob that has been ground up to name a few ways. All of those are more eco friendly then ripping the ground apart. Plus the newspaper and corn cob can be composted if you have the ability to help make some nice rich soil for plants you have around the house. That is another great way to have a green garden. By composting grass clippings or any leftover organic matter in a heap letting the natural processes break it down turning it into rich cheap soil. Perfect for any garden making perfect planting soil while you just go about your everyday life. You won’t have to worry about paying for large bags of it, just walk over to your compost pile and scoop out the compost and lay it on your flower, herb, or vegetable garden. It is much more environmentally friendly then going out and buying mind and possessed phosphorus and other synthetically produced chemicals. Everyone knows how much dryers can cost to run especially if you have a large family and have 4 or more large loads to dry a day. When it is a nice sunny day out go back to the old fashion way of drying your cloths on a close line. You can save a lot of money on your electric bill by letting the largest source of heat in the solar system do the work for free. Yes it does take a bit longer than having them dried in the drying machine but honestly how often will you need the cloths right away. These are just a few ways to live a greener eco friendly life. They aren’t all that difficult and if everyone started to use these methods the whole world can take one giant step towards being more environmentally friendly and preserving our non renewable resources from being used up completely.

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Spinning the Biological Wheel



Organic farming is a quite distinct, and more original, approach towards environmental- friendly production of food and other organic commodities. Instead of synthetic (chemical) agents, it relies either entirely, or predominantly, on using natural organic (biological) material for all/most of the farming processes. In broad terms, organic farming is all about empowering the ‘biological’ over the ‘chemical’ constituents of life. This makes sense when we look at organisms (any of them) as bands of tiny chemical elements, all put together by nature to create a larger biological entity. Upon death and decay, these biological units are broken down to their chemical sub-units and become nutrients for other biological forms (mostly plants and microbes). This way the wheel of life keeps spinning with the biological entity as the higher form of existence.

Organic farming is based on the consciousness of the biological cycle as something inclusive, especially when it comes to issues of health and environment. Introducing chemical (fertilizers and pesticides) or biological agents (genetically modified organisms) from the outside may make the biological wheel spin faster to cover more grounds but, in the long run, it will put the system at a loss because it makes the wheel wear more quickly. Hence, synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers may increase the fertility of soil for one season but the amount left in the soil needs to be washed before cultivating another crop and this washing process is likely to deplete the soil in other nutrients. So additional chemicals need to be used; means more cost and more cleaning, and the production cycle is stressed. In organic farming, letting nature take care of nature keeps the balance intact.

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