Natural Living
Posts about natural living with an environmental twist.
Growing Water Wise
Posted on Aug 12, 2010 - 05:04 PM
By: Tricia Edgar
It’s the heat of summer. The plants are wilting rapidly in the garden, and you reach for the hose. Wait a moment. If you want to be water wise, you might want to reconsider your watering habits.
…Growing Networks, Growing Food: Community Food Security
Posted on Jul 24, 2010 - 11:13 AM
By: Tricia Edgar
Food security: it sounds so formal, but the concept is actually very simple. If you can eat fresh and healthy food every day, you are food secure. If you struggle to buy or grow or glean enough food…
It is Getting Warm Yet? It’s Summer - Time for Winter Gardening
Posted on Jul 16, 2010 - 06:35 AM
By: Tricia Edgar
It’s summer. While the sun might be sporadic in many places, it’s time to plant your winter garden. Winter garden? Yes, that’s right. Planting a winter garden is a summer time activity,…
Local Produce is Fun(gi)
Posted on Jun 30, 2010 - 09:23 PM
By: Tricia Edgar
Growing your own? It never looked so good. The grow it locally movement is growing in leaps and bounds, and with it come new trends in urban gardening and foraging. Stinging nettles and dandelions…
Growing Soil
Posted on May 25, 2010 - 10:09 PM
By: Tricia Edgar
It’s spring. The birds are singing, the plants are growing, and at garden stores across the nations there is a run on potting soil and other soil amendments. Everyone is heading out to buy…
Super Green Home: Turf Houses in Norse Era
Posted on May 18, 2010 - 08:29 AM
By: Brian Liloia
Talk about a green home! This website documents some ancient turf home reconstructions that date from the Norse Era in Canada and Iceland. The photos are terribly cool and I cannot resist from sharing.…
Sharing the Urban Jungle
Posted on Mar 27, 2010 - 04:13 PM
By: Tricia Edgar
This afternoon, I crept outside in the rain, into the mud that surrounds the yard of my townhouse. I surreptitiously pulled a package of seeds from my pocket and began to plant them just beyond my…
Rural Dreams, Urban Living
Posted on Feb 10, 2010 - 05:58 PM
By: Tricia Edgar
There’s a debate amongst those of us suburban dwellers who have rural fantasies. We dream of chickens, of eggs, or sheep and spinning our own wool and knitting it into fantastic sweaters. We…
The Down and Dirty of It: Rebranding Cloth Diapers, Menstrual Products, and Toilet Paper
Posted on Feb 07, 2010 - 05:23 AM
By: Tricia Edgar
Come on, now. You don’t want to talk about it? Why not? It’s not polite? Well then. I have a four-year-old. I can talk toilet with the best of them.
I just finished writing…
7 Dangerous Foods That You Should Avoid
Posted on Jan 31, 2010 - 03:28 PM
By: Brian Liloia
Mercola.com, the popular personal health website, has a list of seven dangerous foods that you should avoid to lead a healthier lifestyle. Of course, these foods are not the only ones that you should…
