Shopping The Local Garbage Heaps
Filed Under: Do It Yourself, Susatainable Living on October 5, 2009
I don’t know about you, but here in my house, we’re avid used everything hounds. We spend a lot of time at our local second-hand, thrift [...]
Posts Tagged sustainable
Global Children’s Gardens – Seeds of Promise
Filed Under: Environmental News, Organic Gardening on September 21, 2009
This weekend, at the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair, we saw a really cool geodesic dome greenhouse structure and went inside to have a look at [...]
Diatomaceous Earth – Natural Insect Killer, No Chemicals
Filed Under: Organic Gardening, Susatainable Living on August 9, 2009
When I first started thinking about environmental issues, my concerns were mainly centered on how to re-use some of the things I was throwing away and [...]
Planning The Fall Garden – Now Is the Time! Part II
Filed Under: Do It Yourself, Organic Gardening, Susatainable Living on August 4, 2009
In Part I we talked about knowing when to set up your seeds and how long you can expect before your first Killing Frost. Now we’ll continue with [...]
Planning The Fall Garden – Now Is the Time! Part I
Filed Under: Do It Yourself, Organic Gardening on August 3, 2009
Many gardeners miss one of the most productive times of year for gardening. That can be the fall garden. When the spring and summer crops are through [...]
Joel Salatin – Sustainable Farming and Going Beyond Organics
Filed Under: Environmental News, Susatainable Living on July 28, 2009
In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is a 550 acre spread called Polyface Farm. Run by Joel Salatin and his family, the farm is a definite model of [...]
Organic Certifications, Labels, and What They Mean
Filed Under: Green Politics on July 27, 2009
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what that “organic” sign in the grocery store means. For many of us, it merely means “same stuff, hig [...]
