organic living

End Of Our First Garden Season

November 9, 2010

Yesterday, we harvested the last of our garden.  We’ve had a beautiful, warm fall so far, and were able to put off the final harvest quite a bit later than we’ll usually be able to.  We got our homemade cold frames situated over the beds of greens last week, and they’ll keep producing throughout most [...]

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Simplify Your Beauty Routine To Save Money And Go Green

November 4, 2010

The following is a guest post from Mrs. Money of the Ultimate Money Blog.  Mrs. Money and I have a lot in common, and our beauty routines are pretty similar too.  When I was pregnant with our son, I purged everything from our bathroom that contained suspect ingredients.  Lotions, nail polishes, hair products, fake tanners… [...]

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Harvesting In Full Swing

September 22, 2010

For years, roasted veggies has been a favorite fall and winter food for us.  But we’ve never had the experience of roasting vegetables we grew ourselves, until now.  I found this recipe for a great roasted veggie marinade and wanted to try it with the day’s harvest.  Our son helped me in the garden, and [...]

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Saturday’s Harvest

August 1, 2010

Everyday lately we’ve been harvesting a good chunk of our food from our backyard.  I’ve noticed that our grocery bill is less than half of our usual total, and the cart looks pretty empty when we get to the checkout stand.  Here are a couple of pictures that show most of what we harvested yesterday: [...]

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The Story Of Cosmetics

July 22, 2010

I just finished watching Annie Leonard’s new video, The Story of Cosmetics.  It is well worth the few minutes it takes to watch it, and the message it contains needs to be heard by all of us. I’ve been on a mission to get rid of toxic crud in our home for several years now, which [...]

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The Luxury Of Frugal Thinking

July 8, 2010

I don’t know the exact demographics of our town, but it’s definitely a lower-income area than the city where we used to live.  There is only one grocery store in town, and it’s not stocked with organic produce and ten dollar jars of coconut butter.  Houses here are lot less expensive than they were in [...]

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Avoiding Nestle Without Even Trying

July 4, 2010

I was aware from a very young age that my parents didn’t buy any Nestle products.  They explained the reasons for the boycott, and it made perfect sense to me.  After spending two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, those reasons made even more sense.  I don’t knowingly buy Nestle products, but the boycott [...]

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Vinegar As An Herbicide

June 30, 2010

In addition to our awesome backyard, we also have a really big front yard.  We started getting rid of some of the grass last summer, putting down weed blocking fabric and using a wheelbarrow to spread out existing areas of gravel (happily, the former owners had ordered more than they needed when they put in [...]

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Reducing Our Impact In Whatever Way We Can

June 29, 2010

My post about all of us being responsible for the oil spill generated quite a bit of discussion over the last few days.  Any time this issue comes up (on my site and every other one I’ve visited), there are always people who are quick to point out why their particular situation makes it impossible [...]

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We’re All Responsible For The Oil Spill

June 26, 2010

I subscribe by email to my favorite blogs, and this morning, right beside each other in my inbox, were articles from two of my favorite bloggers, Everett Bogue and Tammy Strobel, both writing about essentially the same thing: we all have a moral obligation to drive less.  Both articles are excellent, and well worth reading. [...]

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