Organic Farm: Heritage Seeds

Seed to Seed:
Seed Saving and Growing
Techniques for
Vegetable Gardeners

Organic Seed
Production and Saving

Heritage Seed Company: An Organic Farm Collective

Hello, Everyone!  I've just discovered the Heritage Seed Company and I appreciate their mission to bring back and restore to use, lost foods, while teaching interested gardeners the value of fresh, heirloom and local produce.  They desire to encourage and support more people to plant organic gardens and to save and trade seeds.  To achieve these goals they'll utilize modern technology with social media.  For example, they will provide online education via pre-recorded video, instant chat, and live video streaming.

Heritage Seed Company will have a comprehensive resource center to help all growers.  The website that they are planning will be free to use and be built with open-source tools so other people can utilize the site and the code.  The vision and goal for the website is that it will serve as an educational resource, a communication tool, a digital meeting place and the home of a mapping system that tracks progress of Heritage Seed propagation.

To learn more about this project, visit Heritage Seed Company Organic Farm Collective. You can view an delightful introductory video about this project at the same site, if it's not visible below (it's featured below, yet not 'visible' here at the hour of this post).

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Sage, Spearmint Essential Oil, Kaolin Clay, Baking Soda and Sea Salt

Spearmint Leaves - Spearmint Essential Oil

How to Make Herbal Tooth Powder

Hello, Everyone!  The following video features a recipe for tooth powder which can be used instead of toothpaste for brushing your teeth. John Gallagher of LearningHerbs.com and Mt. Rose Herbs is sharing the recipe, which is from Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir of the Academy of Scottish Herbalism, with us.

The quick and easy recipe includes sea salt, kaolin clay, baking soda, spearmint essential oil and dried sage.  I've used each one of these ingredients individually, except the kaolin clay.   I am looking forward to trying these ingredients together, according to this recipe.

Gallagher shares tips with us as he prepares the tooth powder.  Among the interesting tips he shares are: (1) kaolin clay is used in the tooth polish dentists use and (2) sage helps whiten teeth! I didn't know that about sage.  I love the flavor of sage, especially in chicken dishes.

As we get our hair in great condition and our bodies toned, we might as well pamper our teeth and gums, too!

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Fitness Mirror Dancing: Warm-up Your Samba-hips

Hello, Everyone!

Today's post is a guest feature from, Theresa Stevens, an art teacher who became an Inspirational Dance Teacher and Founder of Lovelight Samba. She will share how women can lose weight by dancing.  As you all know, Spring will be upon us soon enough, and we might as well get ready for it, now, by toning away the excess remnant pounds from the various holiday feasts we enjoyed so much in November, December and New Year's Eve/Day, too. Since we need to get rid of the excess pounds for greater overall body health anyway (the increased blood circulation is great for our hair's health and growth, too), we might as well do it in a way that we really enjoy. Why? Because we are far more likely to make something we really enjoy doing, a regular part of our lives and consequently, reap long-term, lasting, beneficial results.  Theresa will share more about how to experience joy while losing those excess pounds, below. Enjoy!


Weight-Loss and Stress–and the power of getting into Pleasure!
by Theresa Stevens

Have you found a correlation in your life between feeling stressed out and gaining weight?

When you’re stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol which slows down your metabolism, causing you to gain weight. And when you are stressed, this same hormone triggers you to reach for fattier, saltier and sweeter foods.

Chocolate is comforting in the first few bites, but emotional eating to comfort stress can lead to adding on extra pounds, which is not comforting and only adds to the stress in your life.

What’s a girl to do? There is one sure-fire remedy for stress, and that’s PLEASURE. And by it’s

Theresa Stevens - 'After'

very definition, it means feeling good.

When you are in PLEASURE, or what I like to call Body Joy, you release neurotransmitters called endorphins― and your body feels light and beautiful, happy and free, and naturally high! Endorphins are those natural body messengers that make you feel SO GOOD after taking a brisk walk, or dancing in the living room, or running down the beach with a dog or child. Endorphins are your body’s natural reward system for taking the actions that are the most healthy and truly comforting for you.

You have to understand that getting into PLEASURE is essential in your ability to lose weight.

You know, in our cultural learning of the best ways to lose weight–we are usually trained that we need to suffer to do it. Things like working out and dieting are very hard to maintain because of the energy of depriving yourself, of not following your body’s natural design of feeling good to lose weight.

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