6/26/24: 🐝 Buzzing with life: another reason for organic

Happy Wednesday my friend,

Transform Your Yard: A Backyard Pollinator Paradise

Do you dream of a vibrant backyard buzzing with life? You can create a haven for pollinators – bees, butterflies, hummingbirds – right in your own urban oasis! These vital creatures are essential for our ecosystem, ensuring healthy fruit and vegetable production in your local region.

Creating a Pollinator Paradise:

1. Plant Power: Choose a variety of flowering plants that bloom throughout the season. Native wildflowers like bee balm, echinacea, and coneflowers are a great choice. Don't forget to include herbs like lavender, mint, and borage!

2. Food & Shelter: Pollinators need more than just flowers. Include a small shallow dish with clean water for them to drink. You can also create a “pollinator hotel” with hollow bamboo stalks or drilled wooden blocks to provide shelter for overwintering bees and butterflies.

3. Go Organic: Avoid pesticides and herbicides in your garden. These chemicals can harm pollinators and disrupt their vital role in the ecosystem. For the love of this Earth…DO NOT use RoundUp.

4. Let it Bloom! Resist the urge to have a perfectly manicured lawn. Leave some areas with native wildflowers or clover to provide a continuous bloom throughout the season.

5. Spread the Word: Encourage your neighbors to join you in creating a connected pollinator haven! Together, you can create a network of blooms that will benefit pollinators and the entire ecosystem. Here’s a toolkit for creating a ‘Pollinator Pathway’.

By creating a pollinator-friendly haven in your backyard, you can enjoy the beauty of butterflies, the gentle hum of bees, and the satisfaction of contributing to a healthier planet!

**For extra inspiration, check out my song and music video (yes, it’s me singing!) “Bee’s Knees”!

When water isn’t enough

The other day I shared my favorite at-home Reverse Osmosis system so that you stop drinking chemicals, fluoride, PFAS, and low doses of the medications our society is taking and peeing out (yes, really). Today is the final day for their massive sale by the way. At minimum, you should get their glass carafe. Check it out.

But proper hydration isn’t just drinking water. Proper hydration status means having an adequate fluid balance, which depends on many factors, including the intake and excretion of electrolytes.

What are electrolytes?

Electrolytes are charged minerals that conduct electricity to power your nervous system. They also regulate hydration status by balancing fluids inside and outside your cells.

According to the FDA, over 70% of sodium in the US diet is consumed from packaged and processed foods. I do not recommend you eat processed foods, but sodium is important for health and performance.

The best solution is so simple and tastes great – adding LMNT to your water. I enjoy this every morning before coffee.

Sugar, artificial ingredients, coloring, etc is unhealthy and unneeded - there’s none in LMNT.

(If you haven’t tried their chocolate salts, it’s basically a healthy hot chocolate! One of my favorite night treats, and with no sugar.)

LMNT is giving Earth Conscious Life readers a complimentary pack of all their flavors with any purchase. They have a 'no questions' policy to reimburse you if it doesn’t exceed your expectations. You don’t even have to send it back!

Get Salty and learn more HERE.

*LMNT only ships to US and Canada at this time.

To a healing future,

— Rob

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