EcoInsomniac

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!No one really knows if genetically modified foods are beneficial or harmful. To say the least it is a very controversial issue. For me I would rather avoid them until it is made absolutely clear whether they are or [...]

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In my backyard here in South Texas we have a pond which at times means we have a ton of mosquitoes.  We’ve tried fish, but since we have cats who don’t care about water and raccoons live near by once they get bigger they don’t last very long.  So, I went searching the web and [...]

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Today I took a short trip to the bi-weekly farmer’s market to check out what kind of fresh local produce I could find.  I’d never been to this particular market which sets up at Grady’s BBQ on Bandera Rd.  After talking a bit with the farmer who’s name is escaping me at the momentI decided [...]

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These days green is all the rage, but many people who try to “Go Green” get discouraged by the thought of high prices and new habits.  By spending a little bit of time and money you can go green and in the long term save yourself money and contribute to saving the environment at the [...]

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Jim Koan a farmer has teamed up with Michigan State University in an effort to study the effectiveness of using pigs to control the beetle infestation he was having on his 120 acre organic apple orchard.  He remembered his grandfather use to herd pigs into the orchard when he was a kid and was not [...]

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