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Tweet Pin It We had great weather this weekend and two local plant sales, so I was able to plant our garden! Our local Garden Club members grow extra seedlings and then sell them as their annual fundraiser in May and I picked up 4 varieties of tomatoes that I’ve never heard of, as well as a kohlrabi plant [...]
Tweet Pin It Back in April we got the idea to plant potatoes in a garbage can from another green blogger, The Frugal Greenish Mama. Ellie & I planted our potatoes and blogged about the process. Planting in a garbage can was really neat to try and a great way to expand the footprint of our garden. Now I have [...]
Tweet Pin It Fried green tomatoes andfried zucchini -our green dinner This isn’t your typical Mommy Blog, so our loyal readers probably have no idea what we usually eat for dinner. However, sometimes living green is eating green. There are many things you can do to eat green: Eat local – A lot of the carbon that [...]
Tweet Pin It I’ve been really frustrated lately with my string beans looking like this: And some of them have been looking like this above. I was talking to my neighbor, and she said that she thought it was from slugs. She was using banana peels around her garden to ward them away. I remembered [...]
Tweet Pin It Wordless Wednesday Our regular readers are aware that this year we started growing potatoes in a garbage can. They’ve grown very fast, so here is a picture walk through the process: We started with these: We let them cure overnight on the windowsill: And planted them in a can: About three weeks [...]
Tweet Pin It I have to admit, this wasn’t my idea. I got the idea from The Frugal Greenish Mama blog, who is growing potatoes in a garbage can for the first time herself. I’ve always wanted to grow potatoes and it just always seemed too hard, but with this system, I’m sold! Jon has [...]
Tweet Pin It Throughout the week we share a number of articles and posts by others on the Green Lifestyle Consulting’s Facebook Timeline and through our twitter account @grnlifestyle. Here are a few items that particularly caught our attention this week: Waste Management Single-Stream Recycling: Take a Tour of our Philadelphia MRF - Waste Management – We have single stream [...]
Tweet Pin It Were you an ardent gardener? Now that you have children, are you having a hard time squeezing in time to work on your garden? Maybe you are new to gardening, but you think you can’t possibly get started with young children? Perhaps you don’t have children yet and this is just one more [...]
Tweet Pin It We have found that teaching our kids environmentally friendly practices while they are young has lifelong positive repercussions. Things that you do when you are young become part of your habits and your way of living, while changing behaviors as an adult can be difficult and challenging. By having them do green [...]
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Tweet Pin It My calculation of what the US spent on importing oil in 2011 has become one of our most popular posts of all times. I have impatiently waited the release of the number of barrels imported for Dec 2012 to finish up the calculations. Here’s the answer: In 2012, the United States spent [...]
Tweet Pin It This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Mom’s love their kids and what you do far more than any stuff you can give them. Here are some tips from Alicia on 10 Last Minute Green Gifts Mom will Love. I have a few things in the works, but I can’t share them yet or [...]
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