June 25th, 2012 at 2:03 pm (survival skills, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, wild food sources, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, field medicine, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, self sustainability, prepping, societal collapse, gardening)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses a recent news story in which a woman's medicinal and food garden were destroyed by an HOA and the city.
He covers topics such as:
- How can we prepare our own medicinal gardens to avoid falling prey to this kind of ignorance?
- What are some of the different types of urban camouflage gardening (Guerilla Gardening)?
- What are the different height levels and how can we create a medicinal garden in the front yard that uses this to help fit the garden in with HOA and municipal idiot-regulations?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that grow as ground cover and can replace a yard?
- What are some very good medicinal plants that are high ground cover, low-herbaceous level?
- What are some good medicinal herbaceous plants and how can we fit that into our yard in a way that doesn't stand out?
- What is the concept behind forest gardening and how can that help us be more prepared?
- What is the advantage of using local plants?
To learn more about using medicinal plants that you can grow, as well as harvest locally in the wild, sign up for the next Herbology Level 1 class here
Related Items:
More information about the incident discussed in this podcast about the mowed-down garden, news report
Companion Article, 'On Your Side of the Fence'
Upcoming class in Austin, TX: 'Cooking With Wild Edibles', July 26th
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June 13th, 2012 at 12:11 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, readiness, self sustainability, pet survival, homestead livestock, homesteading)
Today's podcast with Sam Coffman and Rick Worden of Rise and Shine Rabbitry, wraps up their discussion about healing herbs and food for rabbits. For those of you raising rabbits, Sam and Rick get into details on specific herbs and health issues with rabbits, such as:
- herbs to stimulate appetite and milk production in rabbits
- what is wool-block and how can you easily prevent it with simple herbs
- what is the best tonic herb for rabbits
- garlic as a treatment for pinworms or roundworms and a clever way to give it to rabbits that don't like it
- the difference in life-span between a wild and domesticated rabbit
- what is a great uterine tonic herb for pregnant doe later in her gestation?
- rosemary, catnip and some geranium: how they work as a natural pest control on the cages
- how you can use canned 100% pumpkin to ease gut blockages
- how to keep rabbits cool in high summer heat
Learn more about herbs for humans at the next herbology level 1 class here.
Also, check out our earlier podcast on rabbitry and creating your own sustainable meat food source, Episode #100, The Self Sustaining Food.
Episode # 116: The Rabbit and The Herb (part one).
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June 8th, 2012 at 11:30 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, readiness, health and nutrition, self sustainability, pet survival, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading)
In today's podcast Sam Coffman talks with Rick Worden of Rise and Shine Rabbitry, about healing herbs and food for rabbits. For those of you raising rabbits, Sam and Rick get into details on specific herbs and health issues with rabbits, such as:
- Nutrients that are important for rabbits to give them a more natural diet
- Immune boosting with apple cider vinegar, and how this helps keep them from getting sick
- How to use echinacea and what it does for them
- Dried or fresh, which is better?
- Ear mite treatment using natural oils and herbs
- Eye washes for rabbit eye infections
- How normal "rabbit feed" can cause gastric problems in the rabbits
- Herbs to help rabbit digestion and counteract some of the problems called by pellets
- Grasses vs. pellets: How do you prepare grasses and herbs for their diet?
- Herbs for rabbit diarrhea and to improve digestive issues
Learn more about herbs for humans at the next herbology level 1 class here.
Also, check out our earlier podcast on rabbitry and creating your own sustainable meat food source, Episode #100, The Self Sustaining Food.
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