Recently a family member called me asking about natural suggestions for his high blood pressure. The first thing we talked about was potassium. The majority of Americans don’t get enough potassium, and low potassium is very closely associated with high blood pressure. (One VERY important note here is that low potassium can slow down metabolism of glucose, leading to high…
I don’t often get philosophical here. I usually reserve those thoughts for my private journal, but a conversation with a friend has inspired me to share here this morning. We were talking about the Las Vegas shooting, the fact that the governor of Florida has declared a state of emergency over an upcoming speaker, the “dead zone” in the Gulf…
The difficult thing about starting my garden on our land is the I never know what will actually grow. When we moved into this house 15 months ago, the house was newly built, and the land it sits on had previously been forest. The land the house sits on, and the land immediately around it were cleared specifically to build…