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Home Gardening: A Day in the Life
It is clearly my time of the day, a cool calm encouraged by the gradual looming threat of rain to a particularly dry season. Mornings wake me up with zesty enthusiasm and a new quest for discovery.My current notable trails are:1. Passion Fruit shade2. The Moringa Kickstarter3. A Grape New Tea4. Project Build: Pool Afternoons
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The Help of a Story
There is a built-in intimacy and partnership between plants and those who tend to them. Clearly the design is out of this world. This relationship has often been taken for granted or simply lost in the commonly held view of today’s youth that food comes from the supermarket. Plants provide benefits to their hosts so…
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Digging for Treasure
It was ages ago (as Zakyla would say), when a skinnier version of me in my late teens, climbed up a hill in Santa Cruz to dig yams. I hailed from the yam country of Jamaica, yet paradoxically my first encounter with digging was in Trinidad. I followed a dried-up vine trail in the parched…
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A Patient Reward
Growing our own food is a tedious effort that is not for the faint of heart. But the rewards can be unparalleled! I feel like we have planted more “leftover” pineapple heads that I care to count, and just when I was giving up hope of ever seeing a fruit before grandchildren come to visit…
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Home Gardening – It’s a Journey!
We started our home garden in late 2015 (about a year and a half ago). Our first crops were lettuce of different colours and an attempt at kale. Basil was added: a purple and large green leafed type and they exploded in huge plants and our next big hit was born. Everyone was buying fresh…
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Practice Makes Perfect
Fresco Life has undoubtedly been a process of discovery for our family. I admit, for many years I believed that making consistent healthy choices for myself (and moreso on a family level with varying tastes and limited time) was a difficult and onerous task. I probably put it next to impossible, especially if the word…
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Gluten Freedom and this Fresco Life
Over the past several months I have had the honour of hearing from so many people, how our services have assisted them in changing their lives. This is great but what all our community is seeing today has come from a genuine process within the core families of Fresco Life.We are a normal, everyday family…
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The Value of a Fresco Life Market Bag
Fresh vegetables and healthy eating has been cast under a shadow of being expensive or unsustainable. We believe that there must be a way for our families to eat fresh and very affordably. We challenged ourselves to come up with a mix of market items for $100 that would put flight to that idea.
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ALL CALORIES ARE NOT EQUAL
We have been told for many years that if we want to lose weight we should consume less calories and exercise more. Right?If this is true then if I am accustomed to having 2,500 calories per day and I reduce that to 2,000 then I should lose weight automatically. Unfortunately this is not the case.…
Fresco Life Home Grown 