Memory Quilt from Old T-Shirts
If you can’t bear to give away those old baby clothes or have too many nostalgic shirts, a great way to repurpose them is to create a memory quilt. Check out this video.
5 Gallon Bucket Potatoes
One of our goals is to reduce the amount of produce we buy from the market. We currently have perennial strawberries that ripen in June and raspberries that are ready in July. We also plant tomatoes and peppers annually. This year we decided to add potatoes to the mix, and decided …
Climate Change 101 with Bill Nye
Here is a great video by Bill Nye the Science Guy explaining what climate change is. This video came out back in 2015 but since the we’ve all experienced the affects of climate change. At the end of the video Bill Nye gives practical takeaways we can do to help stop and reverse climate change. …
The Dirty Truth of Donated Clothes
I find that it’s interesting that a majority of the clothes donated find their way to Africa. When clothes are donated, they are first sent to a sorting warehouse. At the warehouse employees sort the clothes by quality, where the better clothes are sent to the stores for resell and the rest are shipped to …
Astonishing number of packages shipped in America
I found this interesting infographic on the number of packages shipped in America. https://www.packola.com/blogs/boxing-and-packaging-articles/how-many-packages-are-shipped-in-the-united-states Imagine if we were able to cut the number of packages shipped in half. We would save a lot of trees and importantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released by the delivery trucks and planes. Some practical …
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