Edible Plants and Herbal Remedies

Basil Carotenoids Carrots Chinese Chestnut Cucumber Dandelions Grapes Mache Methyl Mustard Onions (Garlic Chives Scallions) Parsley Peas Peppers Peppermint Phytochemicals Popcorn Potatoes Raspberries Rosemary Sage Sweetleaf Spinach Thyme Tomatoes Vitamin K Watercress Wheatgrass

Food For Thought is a collection of songs and poems about traditional health foods by Daniel Brouse.

Introduction To Herbs

Hands-on Experience [basics of why you need to “work the garden” vs. taking a vitamin pill, etc.]

I Am What I Eat [how the body uses food to create a human]

Blooming Idiot [beyond the body needing food, the mind and spirit need nutrition, too.]

Are You Really Going to Put That in Your Mouth? [a sampling of “weird foods”]

Come And Get It! [favorite foods]

The Age of Loss and Damage

The Unfolding Crisis: Climate Change, Exponential Loss, and the Imperative for Action by Daniel Brouse Human-induced climate change has become an exponential force in an unordered system, echoing the principles of chaos theory. Dr. Christopher Trisos of the University of Cape Town aptly describes our current predicament as the “Age of Loss and Damage.” Despite […]

Violent Rain and Stormwater Runoff

By Daniel Brouse The train derailment in Plymouth Meeting (July 17, 2023), the eleven vehicles swept away, and the seven people drowned by flood waters in Washington Crossing (July 15, 2023) were caused by a deluge of rain and flash flooding. “In my 44 years, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Upper Makefield Fire Chief […]

Violent Rain Comes to the Philadelphia Area

by Daniel Brouse Both the sea and air temperatures are rising. Warm air can hold more moisture than cool air. Warmer sea temperatures result in more evaporation. The increased moisture in the air moves over land causing inland deluges. Violent Rain Multiple factors figure into the physics of violent rain. The Momentum of Rain is […]