Gardening with Stu – The Virtues of Comfrey
This month, let’s cast our eyes over the wonderful virtues of Comfrey (Symphytum officinale). This poster girl of the permaculturists has a lengthy history of use throughout …
Lifestyle
Leading a balance life means to look after your physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Gradually including healthy practices into your everyday life will make a huge difference to your overall wellbeing and vitality.
Balance Your Dosha With Ayurveda
The great thing about Ayurveda is that when it comes to nutrition, you generally receive information regarding which individual foods and spices are best for your dosha …
Ayurveda and Mental Health
Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. However stress …
How to Balance your Digestive Fire and Improve Digestion
In Ayurveda, it is believed that what we are is what we digest. So digestive fire plays a vital role in our health and many health problems …
Daily Winter Ayurvedic Routine
Here are Ayurvedic some tips and advice on how to stay healthy, vibrant and prevent illness during the winter months. Waking up a little later (around 6-7 a.m.) than you …
Gardening With Stu – Kohlrabi
The vegetable of the month this time is strictly one for the home gardener, occasionally you’ll see it on a supermarket shelf but it won’t taste anything …
Gardening with Stu – Nasturtium
This month I’m writing about a wonderful multipurpose herb that pretty much has something for everybody. Originating in Peru and finding favour in many a suburban flower …
The Value of Life Itself
Human-centred animal that I am, I find it easiest to appreciate the heroism of animals who save human lives, who rescue people. But I’ve come to be …
Selfless Rescuers
In 1950, an elderly woman lived in Hermitage, Tennessee, who was known to everyone around simply as Aunt Tess. The old lady lived alone with only her …
Unlikely Heroes
It is not only dogs and dolphins who have shown their reverence and devotion to human life by going to enormous lengths to save it. The animal …
A Guide-Duck For The Blind
One of the most marvelous examples of animals caring for each other is recalled by Cleveland Amory in his lovely little book, Animal. He tells of a scientist …
The Trapper and the Beaver Cubs
Animals with whom humans have little contact also have the potential for kindness and friendship. One man who came to understand something of the spirit of such …
Dolphins To The Rescue
In June, 1971, Yvonne Vladislavich was aboard a yacht that exploded and sank in the Indian Ocean. Utterly terrified, she was thrown into shark-infested waters. Then she …
Man’s Best Friend At His Best
Human contact with dolphins is limited. In recent years, the animal with whom most of us have had the greatest contact is the dog. One doesn’t have to …
The Most Selfless Animal In The World
If the little Scottish terrier whose monument still stands in Edinburgh is not the most selfless animal who ever lived, a dolphin named Pelorus Jack might well …
The Meaning of Gratitude
You will not find very many monuments to dogs in this world. But in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a public area known as Greyfriar Square, there stands a …
Moringa
This fast growing drought resistant tree has been used in ayurveda for thousands of years. It produces long drumstick like seed pods and can bear fruit in …
Mangosteen
The Mangosteen tree is a slow growing tree that reaches between 6 to 20 m in height. It only grows in tropical environments with abundant rainfall and …
Maca
Maca is a member of the mustard family that has been cultivated by the native people of Peru for over 2000 years. As the world’s highest growing …
Lo Han Guo
Luo Han Guo is a cousin of the cucumber, and a member of the gourd family of fruits. It bears a round, smooth, dusty green-brown fruit that …
Goldenseal
Belonging to the Buttercup family, Goldenseal is a herb that grows in the rich soils of shady woodlands of North America. A perennial reaching 15 to 30 …
Goji
Goji is a popularized phonetic take on the Chinese name for the fruit, Gou Qi Zi, while the name Matrimony Vine is used because taking Goji can …
Ginkgo
Ginkgo trees are large, hardy and can live to 1000 years. When exposed to high temperatures the bark and leaves of the Ginkgo tree secrete a sap …
Gac Fruit
A member of the melon family and about the size of a cantaloupe,Gac grows on a perennial vine and is frequently cultivated in home gardens on lattices …
Elderberry
Elderberry refers to group of deciduous shrubs,small trees and herbaceous perennial plants that grow between 3 and 10 meters of which there are about 30 individual species …
Cupuacu
Needing an average annual rainfall of between 1.9 and 3.0 metres Cupuacu is a small to medium tree in the rainforest canopy which belongs to the Cocoa …
Cranberry
In their natural habitat, Cranberries grow vigorously in acidic, sandy,cold water bogs which were made by glacial deposits. The plant is a long lived, dwarf, creeping shrub, …
Cha de Bugre
Little research has been conducted on Char de Bugre but at present it is known to contain potassium, allantoin (used for topical healing) and allantoic acid (an …
Camu Camu
Camu Camu is a small, 3-5 metre,shrubby tree that grows along riverbanks within the Amazon Rainforest.It has bushy feathery foliage, small flowers with waxy white petals and …
Black Cohosh
A member of the buttercup family, Black Cohosh is an herbaceous perennial which grows to a height of 2 to 4 meters and thrives in moist shady …
Bilberry
A relative of the Cranberry, Huckleberry, and American Blueberry, the Bilberry grows in temperate and sub-arctic heath and woodlands to a height of about 40 centimetres. It …
Bamboo
There are more than 1,000 species of bamboo in the world,most of which flower only once every 60 to 130 years. Some Bamboo species grow at a …
Bacopa Monnieri
Bacopa monnieri is a creeping perennial herb that thrives in wetlands, marshy places and on muddy shores. Bacopa only grows to a height of about 15 centimetres …
Aronia
The extremely hardy Aronia shrub reaches about 2-5 meters in height and withstands pollution, salt and swampy conditions and is resistant to many diseases. The leaves of …
Amla
This tropical tree reaches 8-18 meters in height. It has gray bark and reddish wood and produces small fruits, which ripen in autumn. All parts of the plant are …
Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is an erect branched shrub that grows to a height of 170cm. As a member of the nightshade family, and like its relative the tomato, Ashwagandha …
Acerola
The Acerola shrub can grow as high as 5 meters (or 17 feet). Its bright red fruits are as big as a cherry and, when ripe, have …
Acai
The Acai palm tree grows as high as 50 to 80 feet (15 to 25 meters). The edible Acai fruit is dark purple in color when it …
Will I Get Enough Protein on a Vegetarian Diet?
If you are already eating a vegetarian diet or if you are considering moving in that direction, then simply by eating enough food from a variety of …
Water – What Every Body Needs
The human body is a water machine, more liquid than solid, and requires regular replenishing with this magic elixir, in order to survive. We can last 2 …