Wintertime provides some of the best bird watching opportunities, especially if you offer them these suet cakes made in your own kitchen! Not only does making these bird delights give you that great feeling of connecting with the natural world, it also adds another check in your zero waste column. Instead of buying commercial suet […]
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Grow Veggies From Scraps, Part 2
I’m passionate about living and promoting vibrant health. I’m also rabidly green when it comes to reducing waste and “using everything up”, as my grandma used to say. This is particularly true of food, resulting in lots of tricks and practices I do to minimize useable food scraps going to compost. Vegetable peelings, inedible stalks […]
Grow Veggies From Scraps!
Grow great greens and vegetables from trimmed ends & scraps of organic veggies instead of putting them in the compost or giving them to the chickens, even though both of these options are good and valiant alternatives to throwing the food in the trash 🙂 You will harvest some lovely young greens from what […]
Just Say Ixnay to Bottled Water!!
We all know how vital getting and staying hydrated is to vibrant health. But drinking bottled water can be hazardous to your health and is definitely toxic to our precious, life-giving planet. Here are some of the many reasons why it’s best to avoid bottled water: There is little regulation on its contents so virtually […]
It’s Berry Season!
Happy berry season! I’m just back from picking more than 5 lbs. of blueberries at my local patch and what a crop! The bushes are loaded with large, perfectly ripe and ready-to-eat globes of purpley-blue bliss. This is the most abundance I’ve seen in this field throughout the 5 years I’ve been picking there. Why […]