【推荐1】How can I make my family happy? This important question holds the key to more meaningful relationships with the other members of your household. To help you get started, here are some suggestions to brighten your family members’ days.

Have meals together as often as possible. Parents work and kids have after-school activities, so it’s tough to have breakfast and dinner together every day.    1     Family meals are a key routine and can help you stay involved in each other’s lives.

    2    It is very important that you let them know about your life. That way, they can understand you, congratulate or empathize with you and generally know what’s going on in your life. In turn, it is equally important that you know about their lives too, so that they feel understood, supported and can be reassured that they are not alone.

Set aside time for regular family activities. Regular activities could include bike rides, walks, or playing cards or board games.     3    Keep it low-key, and focus on having fun together and enjoying each other’s company.

Learn what they love doing and ask questions about it. Ask them how their hobby, their interest or their work is going.    4     Get informed on the things they are interested in, so you can have meaningful conversations or go to meaningful events together.

Even the smallest things count. With a simple text or a brief phone call, you can make someone’s day.    5     When you know that someone is going through a hard time, call, text, or be with them at their time of need like you would like them to do for you.

【推荐2】How to prepare for a thrilling hike? Hiking needs mental and physical preparation weeks before the material day. If you’re a fan of hiking mountains. Here is a guide to help you.

You need to train your body at least three months before the challenge.     1     You can start with baby steps and gradually take more demanding exercises and distance. You can often carry your hiking stick to promote stability. Keep track of your progress to help you achieve your goal.

    2     . Wear light absorbent pants to reduce friction and promote absorption of sweat. Long pants keep you safe from stinging weeds, insects and tough weather.

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You must consider various factors before purchasing the most appropriate hiking shoes. First, mind the terrain (地形) of the hiking ground. A mild terrain will do fine with light shoes. On the other hand. A tough, hard and mountainous terrain require hardy hots to help navigate the rocky grounds.

Your bag is your lifeline when hiking. Water is the most essential itch when hiking. The body performs best when you hydrate frequently throughout the challenge. Carry adequate clean water and sip often.     4     These are primary tools to help you find your way, water points, emergency towers, and other places. Hope for the lest but always prepare for ever-agencies. Thus, ensure you have a flash light, a lighter and a whistle.

Hiking is a refreshing way of keeping fit, having fun and building resilience.     5    

【推荐3】There are many common household items that are non-toxic（无毒的）and that work well for killing weeds.

Boiling water、

It is especially good for sidewalks, driveways, or yards. You can boil the water to 100 degree in a container, which is better, as it makes it easier and safer to pour, as well as gives your weed-killing a bit more accuracy.

Fire

Using a kitchen burner or flame-weeder tool to apply heat directly to the leaves and roots of the weed is a fine way of getting rid of them, but be careful not to bum the entire neighborhood down. Anywhere there is dried material you should use fire with extra care.

Vinegar（醋）

White vinegar is perfectly fine for weed killing, especially when a pump or two of dish soap are added into the spray（喷洒）bottle. Spray it directly on the leaves of the disliked plant and be careful not to over-spray. Consider waiting until any strong wind has wound down as a bit of wind can carry the chemicals onto other plants you'd like to keep. Also try to avoid dropping vinegar into the soil, as it will make it harder for anything to grow there.

Salt

Salt is a great weed-killer and can be added to vinegar or hot water sprays, but when it goes into the earth nothing can grow. Add a little dish soap to help the salt stick to the leaves and be careful where you aim. Spraying the soil will damage it, while hitting other plants you like may kill them too.

【推荐1】Many of the vegetables we grow in our gardens produce seeds (种子), which can grow into plants if collected and stored correctly. Late summer is the perfect time to start collecting them.

Make sure the seeds are from plants that you have planted well for many years. These are plants in their normal forms.    1    

Hybridized (杂交) plants usually produce the vegetables sold in big food stores.They are created from two or more different kinds of plants to get the best qualities of each. Trying to grow seeds from these plants will not lead to happy results. This kind of plants will not have the expected results but instead carry the genes (基因) of just one of its parents.    2    For this reason, it is best not to grow seeds from store-bought food.

Many plants become cross-pollinated (异花授粉) in the garden. Bees, flies, animals and wind spread pollen (花粉) from one plant to another. To ensure the seeds will grow into plants, give them space.     3    

To avoid cross-pollination surprises, plant only one kind of each vegetable from which you can harvest seeds.    4    Grow only one kind of tomato in your garden. If that feels too limiting, go ahead and experiment. Choose plants that grow well every year so there are smaller risks from cross-pollination. The plants will be fine even if they are not what you expected.

    5    Add something to the container to prevent any remaining wetness. But take it out after a few days to avoid over drying the seeds.

【推荐3】Bamboo, the fast-growing grass plant common to Africa, Asia and Latin America, has been used for thousands of years to build houses, bridges, and scaffolding(脚手架).    1    .Yet, despite its excellent mechanical characteristics--bamboo is flexible, durable and has the strength of steel-this plant remains something of a forgotten solution in the construction world. Part of the problem is bamboo’s association with cheap, low-quality housing: a “poor man’s timber(木材)”.

    2     . Founded in 2015, Bamboo U offers training courses that promote bamboo as a green construction material. The 11-day “build and design” course takes participants on a hands-on journey through the life cycle of bamboo: from harvesting and treatment, to design and construction. Participants then get to bring their own designs to life, or help create bamboo structures, with the help of a team of architects and designers. Bamboo construction may not be new.     3    

In recent years, concerns about the unsustainability of building materials have caused a fresh look at “natural”construction. Research by the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization, INBAR, shows that bamboo can provide a low-carbon, renewable alternative to timber, steel and cement.     4    . As INBAR’s construction expert, Liu Kewei, puts it: “Bamboo is the sustainable timber of the future.”

Since 2015, Bamboo U has welcomed more than 400 people through its doors.    5    . According to Orin Hardy, the founder of Bamboo U: “We don’t believe that everyone needs to build structures like ours.” Bamboo U is “more about an understanding of the place you’re in. We want to remind people that nature can, and should, be in the built environment.”