If you sleep in a lumpy bed at night, you’re going to have an aching back in the morning and be in a bad mood all day. Your Read More


If you sleep in a lumpy bed at night, you’re going to have an aching back in the morning and be in a bad mood all day. Your Read More

As we’ve discussed before, even if you have enough non-perishable food items to last you and your family for an entire year – and only a small percentage Read More

The single most important factor in plant growth is the quality of the soil, right? Wrong. Way back in the 18th century, it was discovered that the essential Read More

To freeze or not to freeze, that is the question. Well, it’s the question for a number of people who store seeds, anyway! There seems to be some Read More

If you pay attention to the news, you have probably heard some or all of the following phrases a number of times: “global financial crisis,” “food shortages,” “genetically-engineered Read More

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located more than 600 miles from the North Pole on the Norwegian island of Spitsberger near the town of Longyearbyen, was built to Read More

A growing number of people are refusing to eat genetically modified food these days. Others don’t care one way or the other and don’t believe that their lives Read More

The next time you sit down to draw up a list of people you want to invite to your outdoor or indoor party, I’m guessing that you will Read More

Cooking or heating food has become such a routine in our daily lives that we tend to forget one very basic and important fact. Once food is heated Read More

What will happen to a food stockpile that you put together from scratch? Eventually it will run out if a crisis lasts long enough. Same with the clean Read More