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Culinary herbs are among the easiest plants you can grow. They only need sunlight, water, and well-draining soil with a neutral pH.– You don’t even need a garden. Many herbs, such as rosemary, basil, cilantro, lemon balm, oregano and mint will grow well in containers. In fact, mints should only be grown in containers, unless you don’t mind a garden takeover. Related: Don’t have a garden? Grow your plants in containers To get started, test your soil. Buy a pH test kit online or at your local garden center and follow the instructions. A reading of 7.0 is ideal, but...

Earn $1,493.04 {Last Year’s Grocery Expenses} Selling Totally Random Things Online Last night I listed 26 dried pumpkin stems on Etsy for $39.95. And I think they are going to sell. Quickly. Why? Because there’s a lady on Etsy who’s selling dried pumpkin stems and they’re going like hotcakes. My guess is everyone wants them for their velvet pumpkins or other fall crafts. But who knows… Maybe there’s someone out there with a pumpkin stem museum and they’re still on the hunt for the perfect one. You just never know.  Sold so far: 1 Box of “Native Organically Harvested Maine...

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn In partnership with GhostBed Ways To Stay Cool While Sleeping In Your RV Imagine that you are at your favorite summer camping spot. You’ve had a long day of hiking or swimming under the sun, and you’re ready for a great night of sleep. Instead, you find yourself awake at 3 a.m., dripping in sweat, and too hot to drift off. Sound familiar? We’ve been there too. Thankfully, there are solutions. Here are seven things you can do to stay cool sleeping in your RV this summer. 1. Open and close windows strategically  When evening comes,...

Can you truly have a zero waste kitchen?Unsplash I’ll square with you. I was quite close to winning the “Biggest Treehugger” superlative in my high school’s yearbook, but I’m no Greta Thunberg. I’ve always cared about the environment, and was raised to take quick showers, turn off lights when exiting a room, and save Ziplock baggies to wash and reuse. But the marrow of the matter is that my reasoning for becoming an anti-food waste savant was that I think cooking with constraints is a fun hobby.I’m a passionate home cook, and my fiancé and I enjoy the challenge of...

Dragon Boat Festival (龙船节 lóngchuán jié or 端午节 duānwǔ jié), which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (Jun 3 this year), has been observed in one form or another for close to 2,000 years. The holiday originated as a way for people to admonish evil spirits and diseases during the fifth lunar month, which is traditionally considered unlucky and potentially filled with natural disasters and death. Nowadays, however, the holiday has taken on a more celebratory tone and is used to commemorate the life of the scholar and poet Qu Yuan, who lived between 340 and 278 BC during the State of Chu....