Foraging On My Own Property
Posted on July 27, 2009 - Filed Under garden, green living | 5 Comments
That is a palmful of some blissfully juicy, sweet-tart wild blackberries. So tasty.
Last week, I noticed something red in a bush along my driveway while pulling out to go to the store. I didn’t stop at the time, and I mentally wrote it off as some inedible red berries like the perfectly round and frosty-exterior [...]
When You Can’t Get Away . . . Take a Staycation
Posted on July 1, 2008 - Filed Under green living, summer | 2 Comments
I might be a little obsessed with the word “staycation.” It’s so inventive. And it perfectly describes what we are doing this summer. As much as I would love to whisk the kids away to a house on the Jersey shore or drive up to visit my husband’s family, it’s just not in the cards [...]
Read More..>>More Eco-Friendly Father’s Day Gifts
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Great Gifts, green living | Leave a Comment
Still looking for the perfect gift for your eco-friendly dad? I am running down some good options that you can get last minute this week . . . Click here to check out part 1 in this series.
Organic Style: Organic Style has a variety of eco-friendly suggestions from trees to journals to chocolates. They were [...]
Read More..>>Growing Our Own Food
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under garden, green living | 6 Comments
The price of baby food – the organic, affordable food that Paige eats – jumped 10 cents. Sugar has more than doubled in price for our small town. Gas is teetering on $4 a gallon. I talked about my fears last week . . . and they only seem to intensify as the days pass. [...]
Read More..>>Our Children’s World
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under green living | 2 Comments
A deadly virus is attacking young children in China. A tidal wave has killed thousands in Myanmar/Burma. A woman held prisoner by her own father is finally free of her basement prison after 30 years and several children . . .
As if that isn’t enough, gas prices are skyrocketing to a point I never imagined [...]
Greener Shopping
Posted on April 13, 2008 - Filed Under green living | 2 Comments
For the past year, I’ve been working on greenifying our lives. Safer cleansers, natural (non-antibacterial) soaps, and less waste. It’s been a tough undertaking — reusable dryer sheets just didn’t do it for us. And the ones we tried – Method – still had waste when all was said and done: the sheets themselves, the [...]
Read More..>>Leaning Green
Posted on June 13, 2007 - Filed Under On the web, contest, green living | 1 Comment
Where to start? There are so many elements to trying to lead a greener life. It encompasses everything from where we get our food from to what we clean with. For me, it even means staying away from unnecessary synthetics (in clothing, in the kitchen, etc).
I spent a good part of the last few months [...]
Washing Vegetables and Fruits to Remove Pesticides
Posted on January 24, 2006 - Filed Under Feeding Kids, Healthy Cooking, fruit, green living, lessons, product reviews, raves, vegetables | 1 Comment
I never thought about pesticide residue that could be on my produce before I had Will. And while I thought it was odd that apples in the store were so shiny and glossy, and broccoli had that white patina, I just didn’t put one and one together.
But while I was pregnant I began learning more [...]
