Category: Buying Local

The Jolly Green Revolution – A Take on Present Day ‘Green’ Consumption Phenomena

The “Green” phenomenon if I may call it that, seems to have sprouted recently. In reality, it’s been an ongoing cycle, rather a wheel with spokes that represent different avenues of ‘green’ resources connected to…

Ozarka Water Exposed

Before we get into the meat of it all. When we do simple water tests, we usually just focus a few matrices. One of them is the TDS reading. TDS stands for totally dissolved substances.…

The Vientiane Baguette – A Culinary Journey of Laos

The baguette, a delightful culinary legacy of the French is unavoidable in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Especially in Laos, baguettes are everywhere; sold at stalls, off of bicycles, bakeries, and vegetable markets. Baked in brick…

Fun Facts About Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is not usually associated with boycotts, but in the summer of 2011, that produced by the Elite company was boycotted in Israel because of its high cost, in comparison to its cost in…

Some Considerations Before Getting Into Rabbit Farming

One industry that has seen a recent rise in popularity is rabbit farming. It is a great industry for people who want to farm something, but don’t have a lot of space or time to…

Eating Your Curds And Whey

Nursery rhymes are frequently hundreds of years old and their meanings are not clear but simply repeated or sung by young children. In the case of “Little Miss Muffet” she is eating a centuries old…

Mobsters, Gangs – Johnny "Dio" Dioguardi

If there was a way to make an illegal buck, Johnny” Dio” Dioguardi, called by Bobby Kennedy the “master labor racketeer,” had his sticky fingers in the pot. Dio was such a treacherous thug at…

Key Factors You Should Know About Your Bearded Dragon’s Diet

Wild bearded dragons eat a large range of foods generally, including considerable quantity of vegetation. They are true omnivores, eagerly consuming all manner of insects, other invertebrates, small vertebrates, leaves, flowers and fruits. A bearded…

The 5 Golden Rules of Catching Crabs

In life you encounter some rules that are Golden, rules that basically apply. Any time you find them you should remember and don’t forget them. They could guide you throughout your whole life. The Golden…

A Story Of Japanese Aizu Jidori

The word “jidori” in Japanese means locally produced free-range chicken in each area of Japan. It is an old-fashioned name and sounds like that the local chicken is really traditional strain kept in restricted area…