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Gardening Tuesday: 10 Foods to Buy Organically and 10 Foods You Don’t Have To

10 Foods To Buy Organically:

10. Meat- Meat is often contaminated and will sometimes even contain E-Coli. Grass fed organic meat is best.

9. Dairy Products- Organic milk is better than “other” milk as organic milk does not have growth hormones or Bactria in it. Remember, too, to look for organics in products made from milk such as yogurt, ice cream, butter and cheese.

8. Eggs- Look up salmonella and E-Coli poisoning in eggs in recent years. Enough said.

7. Coffe- Harmful chemicals are often in your morning coffee so buy organic when ever possible.

6. Peaches- (and other fruit) Even washing and peelin­g couldn’t remove all the pesticides from a nonorganic peach. Apples and nectarines rank high on the scale of pesticide-laden foods. Strawberries absorb a lot of poison through their thin skins. You can’t peel a strawberry, either. The same goes for cherries. Grapes and raisins are under this category, as well. Check your fruit juice cartons as well, as many fruit juices contain grape juice, so look for the organic label there, too, especially if the juice is for kids.

5. Potatoes- These yummy vegetables are sprayed with chemicals so get a bag from Whole Foods instead!

4. Peppers- ( and other yummy veggies too) Peppers are sprayed with horrible chemicals on the growing fields and even all the washing in the world won’t take off the pesticides. Some other veggies that show a high level of pesticide residue are celery, green beans and tomatoes. Cherry and grape tomatoes are small and difficult to wash. Celery has no protective skin so it’s another candidate for organic purchase. Carrots and cauliflower also contain pesticides.

3. Leafy Greens- I can’t even begin to count how many articles I have read on salad food poisoning outbreaks! I suggest growing your own or shopping for them at Whole Foods or local organic farmers market.

2. Baby Food- Baby Food contains high amounts of chemicals so beware moms and dads! Little Tommy might just get a mouthful of chemicals for breakfast instead of bananas and rice. Since babies have such susceptible immune systems it is important to buy organic for baby whenever possible.

1. Anything you eat alot of- Your favorite candy is probably not organic and if you eat alot of it, your body will start to feel the effects of not eating that organically.

10 Foods You Don’t Have To Buy Organically:

You don’t have to spend extra for organic with these following foods. They don’t absorb much pesticide or are peeled before eating.

Asparagus
Avocados
Bananas
Broccoli
Cabbage
Kiwi
Mango
Onions
Papaya
Pineapple

Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and your local Organic Farmers Markets are great places to buy organically! Or, why not grow your own food?


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Garden Tuesday – Why Eat Grass Fed Beef?


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Garden Tuesday- Helpful Gardener

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Recently I came across this neat website called Gardening With The Helpful Gardener it is a really informative website. It contains organic gardening tips, and articles. The topics range from container gardening, vegetable gardening, to flowers and a lot more! They also have a forum where you can ask gardening questions and give gardening advice! Check it out here.

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We have had alot of problems with pests in our garden lately so it has been kind of disappointing :( However, our garden is doing great regardless of the pests. We enjoyed some yummy home grown organic sweet corn for lunch today. :)

I am going to keep the Helpful Gardener’s webpage bookmarked on my computer for future reference.

Happy Gardening!


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Garden Tuesday: Look What We Have!

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We have been having fun seeing all the different produce that our garden has yielded to us in the past few days, so I thought I would share with you some of what we have been seeing! (and eating! :))

Summer Squash…….

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Cucumbers……..

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A Orange Pumpkin………

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Red Potatoes……

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Broccoli…….

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Zucchini……

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Our bounty! Green beans, sweet corn, tomatoes and more!

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Garden Tuesday! – Idiot’s Guide to Raising Chickens

This post was originally written for and published at AlternativeConsumer.com. I received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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I received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While I consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, my review is my honest opinion and thoughts of the product.


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Garden Tuesday: Our First Growing Season

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I have been a contributing writer at The Alternative Consumer for nearly a year now, but have contributed less in the last seven months due to other commitments. The editors are very gracious though and continue to allow me to contribute as I have time to do so.

This week I had a book review to send them of a book I read for their site, so I wrote up a summary of our first growing season too in order that their readers could be kept up-to-date on our farming experience too. So I thought I’d share it with all of you for Garden Tuesday.

You can check out the article here or visit the link below:

http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2010/07/20/organic-farming-our-first-growing-season/


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Gardening Tuesday!

Those greenhouses we got last week are being put to good use. We already have lettuce, cucumbers, peas and more popping through. It was amazing when some green poked through the soil on day 2!

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We have been keeping on top of the weeds in our vegetable garden through the use of straw. The farmer we have rented our growing field from (for free in exchange for organically grown produce) had hay her horses wouldn’t eat so she offered it to us to use as mulch. We are very thankful. It may be itchy and dirty to put down, but how it helps keep the weeds at bay.

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The funny thing about our garden is that we got many more tomato plants because of the chicken manure/compost we used. Where lettuce should have grown, we now have those extra tomato plants! We have to get more recent photos. I will check to see what we have on file though.

I have about three book reviews to post on Gardening Tuesday, but have yet to get them written, as I still have to read two of the books. The other is read, but I have to rewrite my review and it keeps being put off to the side for other things.


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