Gardening

Basil Bread Recipe

My basil plant now wants to reproduce, flowering almost from one day to the next. To keep it from going leggy, I pinch off the flowering tops and harvest yet more leaves. My answer to the basil overflow problem is to bake green bread.

NASA suggests these plants in your home to live longer

Back in 1989, NASA did a joint two-year study with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America on how to clean the air in entirely sealed environments, that is, spaceships. They concluded that to maintain good air quality inside a spaceship, astronauts should grow living plants to absorb and synthesize pollutants, in effect “scrubbing” the air. These are the plants they suggest.

My community organic veggie garden’s growing up well in Israel

Green Prophet writer details his experience growing food at his local community garden.

Planting a non-GMO pea with 50% more protein

Protein. The world needs it. Especially as we learn every day when an animal-based protein diet is killing our planet. Equinom, a seed tech...

World Soil Day today, it’s not looking great

Urgent action is needed to address soil pollution and contain the multiple threats it poses to global food safety and food security, said FAO...

Benefits that come along with using CBD oil

Here at Green Prophet we support the use of cannabis as an alternative medicine. Cannabidiol, one of the molecules of cannabis, tends to be...

UN adds more agri-history sites to list ‘worth protecting’

Though we might want to add any kind of agriculture performed more than 100 years ago to the list worth protecting, we'll take what...

Put some faith in gardening with Piebird’s dirt church greenhouse

Anywhere you live, whether it's the hot, dry desert, or the more temperate states like New York or anywhere in Canada, when you want...

Hydroponics is new way of growing plants

As urban sprawl continues, we are seeing less and less green space. Farmland is sprouting with subdivisions, city parks are being crowded out, and...

World’s first hydroponic community garden for refugees

A new project in a troubled neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, Neve Sha'anan, is attempting to connect people to their food traditions using hydroponics, a novel and sustainable way for community gardening.

Soaring Vertical Gardens in Lebanon

Anyone who has been paying attention will have noticed that a host of exciting new green projects are popping up all over the Middle East, including the soaring vertical garden at the Al-Sultan Ibrahim restaurant in Maameltein, Lebanon.

Date Palms, Palmaculture and Greening the Middle East (INTERVIEW)

Palmaculture is a new name for an old concept – one which helped green the Middle East with traditional palm gardens called bustans For centuries...

A Recipe for Pea Pod Soup

Shelled those garden peas? Now you have a soup you can make from the unused pea pods.

The joy of growing a gooseberry bush

Growing something - anything really, from a geranium stem, roughly transplanted and shoved in soil, to vegetables for your plate; can be a mystical experience. It mesmerizes, absorbs, transfixes ... and continues the biblical evocation of mankind in the Garden of Eden.

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Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

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A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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