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If you’re a prepper, homesteader, or gardener looking to bolster your food security in the event of an emergency, you may want to consider creating an indoor survival garden. broccoli, chia, peppermint, and flowers in terracotta containers on table Growing indoors allows you and your family to cultivate edible fruit, herbs and veggies year-round, ensuring a supply of nutritious produce no matter what situation arises and how horrible the outside environment is. And even if you aren’t prepping for really tough times, indoor gardening is a great option for folks who don’t have room outside, don’t have good soil, or...

The importance of wrist mobility and strength are almost impossible to overstate. Without a strong, mobile wrist that can fluidly operate across multiple planes, our ability to grab and manipulate things with our hands would be nearly useless. Without the mobile wrist, our manual dexterity doesn’t really exist—our arms become those pincers people use to pick up trash. You need adequate wrist mobility, whether you work a keyboard for a living (carpal tunnel syndrome), catch barbells in the rack position, throw projectiles, cradle infants, work on cars, cook, drink coffee out of mugs, wave goodbye, play Ultimate Frisbee, or shoot...

One of my friends recently asked how I stay on top of household chores. Though my initial response was a cloudy “um, I don’t know? I just do it? Do I even have a system?”, I realized, over the course of our exchange, that I do have some fairly fine-tuned strategies for staying on top of household chores, and a lot of it has to do with grouping tasks at specific points of the day (or week) and doing them repetitively, religiously, such that it would feel strange not to do it. The conversation was precipitated by her discovery that...

“It doesn’t get better than this” kept running through my head during my stay at Six Senses Yao Noi near Phuket, Thailand. Six Senses’ style of rustic, sustainability-friendly luxury isn’t for everyone. But I enjoy it and appreciate that IHG is continuing to integrate more Six Senses properties into IHG One Rewards. InterContinental Ambassadors also get extra perks at Six Senses properties participating in IHG One Rewards. After loving my stay at Six Senses Laamu in the Maldives, I was eager to stay at a different Six Senses resort to see if the magic lay with Six Senses Laamu or...

Even if you are short on growing space, you can still have an amazing garden. Vertical gardening is a great way to make use of what space you have, so you can have the garden of your dreams even if you don’t have a lot of property to use. Vertical gardening can also transform plain, boring walls into living works of art, provide an inexpensive space to grow food for your family, or even just add some green to your home. Check out these great ideas for vertical gardening. There’s one for every style, budget, and garden! 1. Tin Can...