Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Tips

Locavore Challenge Pancake Day!

February 13, 2013

Today’s Locavore Challenge over at Longview Market is the Pancake Challenge. We don’t live in a grain heavy agricultural area, so we can approach being local with pancake ingredients by purchasing locally milled grains and of course, grabbing some of Emerick’s local maple syrup. We were able to grab a variety of items last week […]

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Seed Catalogs

February 12, 2013

Last week, I spoke about laying out my garden and today, I am thinking about what to grow and what varieties I would like to grow this year. I am excited to begin perusing the catalogs and looking online. I anticipate using heirlooms again this year and I have some great organic seed companies from […]

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An Organic Valentine’s Day

February 11, 2013

Valentine’s Day is swiftly approaching and there are a few things to do to make yours more eco-friendly and organic. 1) Organic Foods If you are cooking a Valentine’s dinner for your sweetheart/family, be sure to include organic and local ingredients. Organic beets from a local farm, like Longview Market, can be roasted and cut […]

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Longview Locavores

January 29, 2013

As we are heading towards February this week, I wanted to let you know some more about the Longview Center of Agriculture’s Locavore Challenge. Longview is located in Collegeville, PA and has 120 acres of organically and sustainably farmed land. They are a section of Greener Partners and they produce food in all 4 seasons. […]

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Tuesday Greens #17: Made My Own Bread!!

January 22, 2013

Last week, I set a 2013 goal to actually use my breadmaker and yogurt maker that we received at our wedding 6 years ago. They had sat dormant for a long time, but this past Saturday, we fired up the Cuisinart Breadmaker and made our first loaf of bread. I had a bunch of ingredients […]

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Making Bread and Yogurt

January 15, 2013

How’s everyone doing with their “going greener” resolutions this year? Still sticking to the goals you set or the checklist you would like to go through? This week, I cleaned out our pantries a bit and reexamined some of the small appliances we have and how I could be using them to be greener in […]

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Composting Resolutions

January 8, 2013

I am continuing to set some gardening goals/resolutions for 2013 and next up is composting. We ordered and assembled a tumbling composter several years ago, which is similar to this one from Amazon. For the most part, we were good about keep it going and making compost. Then, Tomato arrived and it fell out of […]

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Fall Blueberry Planting

October 16, 2012

This week, we had a warm day when I was able to plant the two blueberry bushes that we bought at the Burpee Garden tour. I paired one with the semi-alive front bush in hopes that it will encourage it next year. As you can see in the series below, I dug the holes, filled […]

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Before the First Frost

October 9, 2012

Our weather went from balmy to freezing seemingly instantly this weekend. I don’t like when we have to transfer directly from using the central air conditioning to the heat right away. So, in the rain of Sunday, I went out to bring these guys in so that they wouldn’t be taken down by the frost […]

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Garden Update

October 2, 2012

This week was a big clean up around here. I am prepping the garden for the winter and I finally tackled a bunch of the weeds. Hello mowed large plot!! Side fence has been trimmed down! Back fence has been cleaned up! Paper has been laid down and dirt will be ordered for new flower […]

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