We were thrilled at the response to our Recipe contest. We are pleased to announce the winner and some runners up, too. The Winner is: Barbara Donohue! Her recipe entry included two items cooked in the Sun Oven, “Sweet Baby Back...
Unique Sun Oven – Florence Package
Close to 700,000 households were reported to be without power this past week as Hurricane Florence crashed into the Carolinas and moved north. Rainfall is forecast to continue for the coming days stretching into parts of the southern New York, Pennsylvania and on into...
Chicken Teriyaki on Spinach with Sweet Potatoes
We love to cook more than one dish in our Sun Oven at the same time. Roasted chicken in a Teriyaki sauce on a bed of Okinawa Spinach and sweet potatoes made a nice accompaniment. Ingredients 4 chicken thighs, skinned bottled...
Intermittent Fasting Benefits Your Brain
“Fasting is the most powerful healing solution ever. It has been used by all cultures all over the world and one that is virtually forgotten today,” said Dr. Jason Fung. Fasting is not the same as starvation. It is the controlled voluntary abstinence of food for...
Materia Medica – German Chamomile
Botanical name: Matricaria chamomile L. Common name: Chamomile Family: Asteraceae Parts used: Flowers Native Region: Originally recorded in in Codex Ebers in ancient Egypt, this plant spread to Europe around the first century A.D. It was essential in monastery gardens...
Water in an Emergency
Glen Meder Emergency Water 101 Please allow me to make a ridiculously obvious point; being prepared means that you get ready BEFORE an emergency strikes. Afterwards is too late! It takes some foresight to get prepared, and yes, you may even be subjected to a little...
South Dakota Military Bunkers Repurposed as Survival Shelters
Paul Munsen In July I had the opportunity to spend a few days at Vivos xPoint which is located in the southwestern corner of South Dakota to demonstrate SUN OVEN cooking. While it is currently under development, Vivos xPoint is an underground survival shelter...
Emergency Alerts
Ready.gov The Federal Emergency Response Agency (FEMA) in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission periodically conduct a nationwide test of the integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The WEA message will display on mobile devices as a...
September is National Preparedness Month
Ready.gov National Preparedness Month (NPM), recognized each September, provides an opportunity to remind us that we all must prepare ourselves and our families now and throughout the year. This NPM will focus on planning, with an overarching theme: Disasters Happen....
Cleaning Up Mold
moldpedia.com We thought we would be saving money on our electric bill while we were traveling out of town by raising the thermostat on our air conditioning system. Little did we know, until we returned home, that this was a big mistake. The first clue was some fuzzy,...