Posted in Eating, Freebies, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, thrift, tagged cherries, fruit, liqueur, neighbors, pie on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week, as I’ve been out walking the dog, I couldn’t help but notice a neighbor down the street with a tree full of cherries growing riper … and riper. I remembered my vow last year to ask for fruit that appeared to be going to waste, so I knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Nobody [...]
Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, carbon, energy, food, local, money, paper, recycling, thrift, utilities, waste, water, tagged waste, recycling, reuse, gas, 90% reduction, 90 percent reduction, riot for austerity, reduce, electricity, garbage, water, food on May 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Organic Needle reminded me to do an update on our performance during the Riot for Austerity, which I started 10 months ago. This is the 90 percent challenge that I’ve mentioned on this blog — with the goal of cutting consumption by 90 percent from U.S. average consumption.
Here’s the update on what I did and [...]
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, tagged birds, Garden, pests, seedlings on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So you’re growing your own food. Great! Then the birds come in and eat your plants.
Not great.
Birds like to eat seedlings and fruit. I know of several methods to keep them away:
Use floating row cover for seedlings. Weight down the edges — you can use the fancy pins they sell, or just use dirt or [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, local, thrift, tagged Garden, plants, seedlings, spring on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Spring is here and things are growing!
We have a bunch of crops started. In fact, the first batch of spinach is just about done — ready to pick, cook and freeze.
Lettuce is going into salads.
Inside, our seedlings have taken off — scarlet runner beans, pumpkins, butternut squash, cantaloupe, and okra.
The peanuts, on the other hand, [...]
Posted in Buy Nothing Challenge, Environment, Fun, Green Living, Hobbies, Saving, Shopping, local, money, recycling, thrift, waste, wool, tagged buy nothing, car repair, earth day, frugality, knitting, re-use, Shopping, thrift, toaster on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s April 16, so I’m more than halfway through my Buy Nothing Challenge with Crunchy Chicken.
Last week
Last week started out pretty well. The only non-necessary thing I bought was a funny birthday card for my sister. I also bought a latte at Starbucks, but it made me nauseous and I complained, so coupons are on [...]
Posted in DIY, Eco-quandary, Environment, Fun, Garden, Green Living, fair trade, local on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
When is the last time you got your feet dirty?
If it was ages ago, chances are you haven’t been to a farm lately.
Do you have a farm near you?
I bet you do.
A company I work with has a client, Culinary School of the Rockies, that has started a program to get future chefs out onto [...]
Posted in Eating, Eco-quandary, Environment, Green Living, fair trade, local on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I posted about our upcoming order of a quarter beef. This purchase is part of our ongoing work to consume only meat that has been “treated kindly,” as Little Cheap puts it. At age 6 (and 5/6ths), she is a dedicated carnivore, but even her meaty preferences have wavered in the face of word [...]
