Month: November 2020

Palm oil and its affects on our environment! Global warming #3

If you have been reading my blog posts recently , (witch I thank you for) you will know that I did a post about global warming and things we can do about it. If you haven’t read that, you can check it out here: https://tigershakti.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/global-warming-part-two/

But now for this post! This post is going to be about palm oil and it’s affects on our environment. Because lots of people don’t even know what it is and how bad palm oil is. So on that note, let’s get started!

Palm oil itself is not bad, but how it is harvested and grown is the problem. Large palm oil industries chop down and decimate forests and rain forests to make room for palm oil plantations. Now, you might be thinking, why is that so bad? Yes trees are being cut down, but the big palm oil planing industry’s are planting oil palm trees too! The problem is that palm oil trees just can’t sustain life and biodiversity like a rain forest or forest can. In a rainforest, there are many, many different types of trees, and all of them together, is what makes up the rain forests diversity and ability to sustain so much life. And when you chop it all down, or burn it all and replace it will one type of tree, oil palm, that just destroys the biodiversity and life.

Now you might be thinking, why palm oil? Well, palm oil is basically the cheapest vegetable oil. And so that is why.

What can we do?! It is very important that we do something about palm oil. Many people don’t even know about the problem of palm oil. And another thing, palm oil is in so many every day items! Like soap, food, etc. Now you might be thinking, what are we going to do about this? Palm oil is in so many things! The best thing that you can do is gradually stop eating or using palm as much as we can.

There is also something called sustainably harvested palm oil. And it is exactly what it sounds like. But even with sustainability harvested palm oil, it is best to leave it and avoid palm oil all together. This is super easy, all you have to do is check the ingredients for palm oil!

That is it for today’s post! I hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to look at all our other posts! Bye!

How to save free seeds from your garden!


Hi guys! This post is #1 of a series for how to save seeds. This one is all about harvesting your seeds and setting them up for storage. Let’s get started.

First you want to chose your plant to take seeds from. If you are worried about cross pollination, (cross pollination is when a pollinator bees, wasps, etc. pollinate one type of a plant and then a different type of the same plant, that fruit is basically a combo of the two types of plants. Remember, you can always search this up) then take seeds from a plant that is far away from another plant like it but not the same.

Second, there are two main types of plants, hybrid and heirloom. The difference between the two is that when you save seeds from a hybrid plant, when you grow the seeds next year, the produce is a little bit different (in a bad way usually) and every tine you keep on saving seeds from a hybrid plant, the produce gets worse and worse. Heirloom plants on the other hand, when you save seeds from them, the seeds (not counting cross pollination) are basically the same produce as the other plant. This principle is usually used for tomato plants, and you can find out whether they are a heirloom or hybrid by looking at the tag, the seed packet, or by searching it up.

Another factor to saving seeds is the dryness/wetness. If it has been raining a lot recently, then you should let the seed pod/seeds dry a bit before you store them. If they are already dry, still let sit for a day or two just to be safe. You don’t want your seeds to rot in storage!

That’s it for today’s post! This post was all about setting up for saving and storing our seeds. In our next post, we will talk about how to do exactly that.

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Global warming part two!

In this post, we are going to discuss some things we can do to help combat climate change. Let’s get started!

One very important thing that we would do, is stop buying products with palm oil in it. These products can range from food to soap! But why is palm oil bad? Here is why:

Palm oil it self isn’t bad, (there are still experiments that scientists are working on), but the way we harvest palm oil is HORRIBLE! Palm oil industries raze/cut down rain and normal forests to make room for palm oil trees. And what’s even worse, is that forests are a key biome on our earth that helps get rid of co2! (Carbon dioxide)Now you might be thinking, well, they are cutting forests down, but they are still planting trees. So it’s not all that bad, right? The sad answer is no. In crucial forests, there are a HUGE variety of trees, and oil palm trees just can’t sustain forest life.

The next thing we can do is use less single use plastic. Single use plastic is EVERYWHERE! In our soap bottles, packaging, bags. And yes, we can’t just randomly say, oh! We aren’t going to use single use plastic at all anymore! That is what I wish we could do, but sadly it is not as simple as that. Firstly, Mose of our food is packed in single use plastic! So unless you are growing all your meals, good luck with that. Also, for many people it is the cheapest way to eat, or get water in a storm, or get soap. So we need to do this little by little. I go over this in a different post called how to get single use plastics out of our life! Check it out here:

For now though, the easiest ways are to use a washable water bottle, reusable utensils, etc.

Because this post is already getting a bit long, I am going to end it here. But remember, there are ALWAYS ways to help our planet.

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Succulent garden tour! Succulent series #1

Succulents are fun and beautiful to grow. They are great for beginners and for more experienced gardeners. This post is the beginning of a series that will cover everything you will ever need to know about these wonderful plants. So to start us off, here is a quick tour/introduction to succulents.

Enjoy these pictures!

This was the result of lots of hard work and care. You can do it to! Wether it’s in on a window still, or on your desk, or in a windowless room.

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