Green Living

Encouraging Healthy Habits Through Gardening

by Jennie June 28, 2011

Kim and I both love gardening and we talked in the past about our garden adventures! Since the move, I haven’t started a garden here, but plan to next spring. Kim has been hard at work growing and nurturing hers! We have a guest post from one of our readers about how to encourage healthy […]

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Reuse Those Ziplocs

by Jennie October 26, 2010

I do try and keep as much out of the landfill as possible and I am learning more and more how to do that as time goes on. One of the things that I have noticed is that what is good for the environment is also normally good for your pocketbook! I wanted to share […]

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Make Your Own Soft Scrub

by Jennie September 21, 2010

I talked about in a recent post that as my cleaners run out I am going to start making my own. I have been buying “natural” cleaners for years now. I have tried shaklee, method, seventh generation and melaleuca products. All of them work wonderfully and I have been worried that what I make myself […]

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What’s Really In Our Plastics?

by MHSjennie September 14, 2010

  For all of you who really know me, know how anal I can be about things. One of those things has included what is really in our plastics. Years ago I remember reading an article about BPA and how bad it was for you. Then I read how reusing your plastic water bottles could […]

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Disinfectants: Is There An Alternative?

by Jennie September 7, 2010

Melaleuca essentail oil

We have been trying to buy cleaning products that aren’t harsh for us or the environment. As I run out of my cleaning products I am going to try and make my own! I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I was always worried about them not really cleaning. I am […]

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Healthy Living: Composting BASICS!!!!

by MHSjennie July 20, 2010

I had been wanting to compost for YEARS and was so overwhelmed with starting it, that I was just turned off by the idea. There are more opinions on how you should compost and what you should use that it was hard for me to know where to start. I finally took the plunge when […]

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Happy Earth Day!

by MHSjennie April 22, 2010

Join us in celebrating Earth Day by doing your part to help save the environment! Want to cut down on your paper towel bill?? Our Earth Day tip is to get yourself some terry cloth towels and use them in place of your paper towels! They work great for every day cleaning, wiping off your […]

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