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Breaking 2400 years of misunderstandings

It seems that Mr. Aristotle, who lived between 383 and 322 BC, argued that plants—and, in fact, everything related to the plant world, including the soil—were closer to the inorganic world than to the world of living beings…

16 April, 2025

Rita Casalão

Sustainable—the unwanted desire

The fact that no one cares about this word anymore makes me curious. When the word “sustainable” or “sustainability” is spoken out loud, I can see in my mind a vast group of people rolling over their eyes and shrugging their shoulders like, “Here it comes…” But honestly, I do not understand what such an allergy is about. Sustainable, according to the dictionary, means…

27 March, 2025

Rita Casalão

How to Make Natural Homemade Fertilizer

When I started gardening, I bought soil in a package. But, overtime, the plants got weaker and eventually started to develop signs of sickness. In the process of finding solutions for the plants, I noticed that the problem isn’t usually the plant, but the soil.

23 March, 2025

Rita Casalão