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Newspaper pots are great!  They are cheap, easy and quick to make.  Actually, as I type this, our 9-year-old is at the kitchen table making a bunch for our tomato plants that have outgrown the containers they are in. 

Pastured Laying Hens are the real deal! They work hard, eat well and rest well while roaming free around the pasture and woods. 

Ok, so to the majority of people, eggshells are trash.

But if you're creative, eggshells are a surprisingly useful resource.  I am just beginning to learn of all the ways eggshells can be used, and holy smokes, the list goes on and on!  You know the famous phrase, "Waste not, want not." 

What if I told you, that everything you think you know about food labels, is a mirage? Picking up on the popularity of local agriculture, and humanely raised meat, the large meat producers have flooded the market with new packaging and food labels that can be misleading at best or ugly lies at the worst. The lack of regulation of these terms leaves a ton of room for interpretation. So, in this post, I will do my best to show you, “how deep the rabbit hole goes.”  

How a gasoline production by-product is affecting the nutritional value of US Beef.