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Growing Food Locally is About More Than Food Prices

August 13, 2012 by Paul Edwards Leave a Comment

There are a lot of reasons for growing food locally. First, people enjoy gardening – it’s near the top of every list of popular hobbies.  After all, most of us can trace our roots back to relatives, who before the 20th Century, grew or raised at least part of their own food.

Second, what you grow and can eat helps with food costs – if you watch how much you spend in growing the food.  Native plants that can be used as food require virtually no cost. For example, stinging nettle which makes a nutty-tasting vegetable grows wild and all we need to do is pick it with gloves and boil it.    [Read more…]

Filed Under: Whatcha Gonna Do to Stay Afloat Personally Tagged With: food costs, Food Prices, growing food locally, sustainable communities

Alternative Health Care and Delivery for Community Survival

August 8, 2012 by Paul Edwards Leave a Comment

With health insurance and conventional health care costs spiraling upward, changes are happening in both how conventional health care is delivered and the increasing use of alternative or health care to save money. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Sustainable Home Businesses Tagged With: acupuncture, Alternative health care, bodywork, community survival, massage, sustainable communities, sustainable livelihood, sustainable local community, yoga

About Me

Paul with his wife, Sarah Edwards, are award-winning authors of 17 books with over 2,000,000 books in print.

Paul provides local marketing consulting through the Small Business Development Center. He is co-founder of a new website: DigitalDocumentPros.com.

Prior to becoming an author, I practiced law, served as CEO of a non-profit, and operated a public affairs consulting practice. [Read more...]

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