Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: California Gardening
Watch this method of growing potatoes and a big harvest - in containers with a well draining potting mix like ProMix HP or a mix of Peat Moss and Perlitte.
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- Written by: California Gardening
In today's episode we show you how to grow an okra variety called Nombo Giant okra in containers. This okra variety produces giant sized pods and can be easily grown in containers. Growing okra is easy.
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- Written by: CaliforniaGardener
Here is a very easy way to trellis your cucumbers to grow vertically rather than have them spread over your garden. This works great. Get them in place and watch the
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- Written by: Leah Ruppanner
We live in the golden age of housework, where robot vacuums can spend hours pirouetting around the living room.
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- Written by: HouzzTV
Elaine Uang and Mike Greenfield knew they wanted an edible garden, and they maximized their space
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- Written by: California Gardening
Find out the best garden hose for your home garden as we review different types of garden hoses and how they perform. From the folding garden hose to the traditional vinyl hose to the next generation
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Start your raised bed garden by converting your existing lawn area to a raised bed. We go thru all the steps from installing the beds, protecting it from critters and adding cardboard and raised bed mix.
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- Written by: Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery
When we broke ground for a garden at our 80-year-old house in the middle of Seattle, we took the most obvious thing for granted.
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- Written by: Cheralyn Darcey
The opportunity to connect to Earth and her gifts in modern times is often waved away as a childish fantasy or an outdated practice, yet the impact of this disconnect is creating huge problems in our environment and mental health. To those who wave away our connectedness with Earth as a fantasy, I offer you an alternative way to consider these practices.
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- Written by: Cameron Webb
Mosquitoes aren’t just annoying. Every year around 5,000 Australians get sick following a mosquito bite.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue
Bigger dogs, with larger brains, perform better than smaller pups on certain measures of intelligence, new research shows.
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- Written by: Libby Sander
Many of us have started the year determined to be more organised: no more drawers full of plastic containers with missing lids, or lone socks.
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- Written by: Marc Bekoff
Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.
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- Written by: Libby Sander
What if you never had to return to work? Never had to return to work at the office, that is.
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- Written by: Quixi Sonntag
There’s been a lot of research about communication between people and domestic animals like dogs and cats. We don’t know what cats and dogs think or if they understand us when we use their noises.
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- Written by: Jocelyn Kessler
When a dog behaves unnaturally in response to any neurotic, chaotic, or disruptive energy taken on from humans, he tends to look confused because he has nowhere to put the energy that is reverberating within him. He doesn’t really know why he is acting out, nor does his behavior make the least bit of sense to him.
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- Written by: Sarah McQuate
Researchers have genetically modified a common houseplant—pothos ivy—to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.
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- Written by: Elena Mannes
Many have experienced the depth of feeling that can develop between us and our four-legged best friends. What makes my story unique is that my search for a lasting and meaningful connection led me down a path that crossed over the boundaries of reason and concrete reality into the realm of the invisible. My dog Brio inspired me--a born skeptic--to investigate the paranormal.
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- Written by: Anadi Martel
For eons, human beings have lived in harmony with the light of the sun. But only in the last hundred years or so, since its introduction, have we become rather well adapted to artificial lighting. The advent of artificial lighting liberated us from our dependence on daylight for the accomplishment of most activities, and in so doing it has fundamentally transformed human life.
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- Written by: Angi Ma Wong
Love is the stuff of dreams, drama, and dread, as well as agony and ecstasy. And yet who among us can live without it? Scientific research has shown that both plants and people perish without attention and care.
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- Written by: Natalie Slivinski
Green growing things heal us in surprising ways. Communities are trying to bring plant life to areas that lack it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, exposure to nature can significantly reduce stress. People’s mental health is markedly better in urban areas with more green space.
