Age, lifestyle, pollution – endemic factors can affect the skin negatively. To combat, try a DIY fruit peel whipped up in your kitchen…

As winter approaches there is a lot of work that has to be done in order to prepare. I usually start with the garden.

Most everyone has heard now that omega-3 fatty acids are beneficial, especially since researchers at Harvard University in 2009 reported omega-3 fatty acid deficiency as one of the top 10 causes of death in America. While, of course, eating a diet high in fish is the most natural way to balance out that deficiency, those who are vegetarian, or simply don’t like seafood can also take fish oil supplements.                                                 

Depending on where you live and if the regulations within your area permit, you may want to consider owning organic livestock. Livestock can be anything from smaller animals such as poultry  or rabbits to larger animals like goats, cows, pigs, and sheep. Having livestock actually yields many benefits for growing plants.  Here are 5 advantages to having your own organic livestock for your home garden.  

We all love our gardens and hate the pests. So here are five homemade pesticides that target only the bad bugs in our garden and are benign to all other life.

A few years back I switched my family from store purchased toothpaste to natural, homemade toothpaste. These days there are a lot of complicated chemical ingredients listed on the back of toothpaste tubes and containers—even many of the natural brands have them. Not to mention, the natural, safe brands seem a bit overpriced. So I thought—why not make my own? Being very choosy, I used safe, simple, natural ingredients, and now I am here to share my own natural toothpaste recipe with you!

Have you ever wanted to meditate but didn't feel you could accomplish the task? Maybe your mind wouldn't stop jumping from thought to thought or you couldn't sit still for more than a few minutes without getting distracted? Perhaps you don't feel you can make time to meditate or it feels too boring to you. Whatever the reason for avoiding the meditation pillow up until now, fear not  - I am about to give you 5 easy ways to meditate – step-by-step - so you can reap the unending rewards from such a practice right away.

Stuffed Acorn Squash

*Serves 2

The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity.  Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto).  And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutiona