A lot of people think the term “pickle” is limited to fermented cucumber. In truth, you can actually pickle a variety of food items to make them tastier and even healthier. To pickle something is actually to preserve something in a fermenting liquid or brine. This method was historically used …

Some vegetables and natural products are described as ‘super foods’ for good reason. They protect your health, provide your body with the nutrients it needs to function properly and help keep your vital organs in good condition. But did you know that some super foods are even more powerful when …

These beautiful orchids are not man made, although they may seem like it to us. They come from the south-eastern Ecuadorian and Peruvian cloud forests. They only grow at heights of 1-2 km above sea level, and so are quite hard to come by. We owe these photos to insistent …

More often than not, the oldest people in the world don’t even know they’ve earned the title unless the Guinness Book of Records’ people call to let them know, or a reporter comes a-calling. Undoubtedly, we can all learn from their wisdom and experience, and we are lucky that so …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9CQQcQOtvs When it comes to learning, humans are remarkable. This is especially true when we have time to practice what we’re doing over and over again. There is no better example of this than these hard workers, who have obviously spent thousands of hours at their trade and have become …

Gardening and caring for our plants would be so much easier if our plants could only talk, and tell us exactly what they need, when. But, as this is obviously not the case, it doesn’t mean that they are not communicating with us. Rather than saying it out loud, they …

There comes a time when even our adorable pets are too tired to move. Just take a look at this lot below. These pets, it seems, are able to sleep just about anywhere. And as cute as they look, I must say, they’ve put me in a rather sleepy mood …

There’s a good reason we call dogs our best friends: they’re unerringly loyal, loving and they’ve been at our side for a long, long time (more than 10,000 years, but who’s counting?). They’ve come a long way since, splitting into numerous different breeds which look nothing alike, each with its …

Some things never change. The way we feel about our children, the smile we get when first we smell the earthy aroma after the rain. These feelings rarely change, nor do some core principles of what it means to be human and to be alive. Here are 19 things we …

There is nothing quite as painful and frustrating as a toothache. The good news is that you can treat the toothache with a dozen natural home remedies to help alleviate the pain. There’s also a very good chance that you have most of the items on the list inside your …