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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011The neatest thing happened today, while at lunch with some dear friends. One of them couldn’t finish her pasta and asked for it to-go, and instead of the leftovers coming in one of those incredibly durable “disposable” plastic containers the food was wrapped into a piece of tin foil and put on the table. Without [...]
Front-Yard Gardening
Thursday, July 7th, 2011While walking in a new neighborhood today, I passed a house which was seemingly like all the others on the block, until I looked a little more closely at the garden they’d planted in front. It was a vegetable garden. In the front of the house! Fantastic! While I’ve read about people doing this, I’d [...]
DIY Dried Fruit
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011After a month-long spell of recently feeling exhausted, spacey, and generally blah, I finally figured out that I might have low blood sugar– hypoglycemia. And while I learn more about it, from the initial reading I’ve done it seems like I should keep healthy snacks handy at all times, dried fruit and nuts being the [...]
Eating Animal Parts
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011I recently had a conversation with a friend who’s been living in Mexico and has been learning the ancient art of butchering. She works as a personal and event chef, and so along with adding traditional Mexican cooking to her resume, she asked her neighborhood butcher if he’d teach her his craft. After expressing shock/amusement [...]
Storing CSA veggies
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Our Community Supported Agriculture share (CSA) started last week, and once again it’s the most delightful, exciting, and nerve-wracking experience. We are getting strawberries! delightful! and tomatoes! from the greenhouse! exciting! And OH NO what are we going to do with the piles of lettuce and kohlrabi?! nerve-wracking! Here’s our haul from this week: That [...]
Homemade Oat Milk
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011Back when I was veganish, I had given up all dairy products– which meant I was drinking a lot of soymilk in place of cow’s milk. And even though I’m not quite sure where I stand with the soy controversy, it felt better/healthier for me to not be drinking mammals milk. These days, I’m not [...]
Visiting my friendly local apiary
Monday, June 6th, 2011I had a great trip out to a friends house (pictured!) this weekend to hang out and get a taste of what it’s like to have beehives in your backyard. I would LOVE beehives – I think they are so neat, and I love to eat honey, and of course I would really like to [...]
Eating The Beet Greens
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Guess what’s super-delicious? Beet greens! I never knew! Beets were an adult addition to my diet, as they weren’t a vegetable I grew up eating. But once I tried them, I was hooked– the color is beautiful, I love the texture, and they taste more than faintly like dirt– what’s not to love? I never [...]
Backpacking Backcountry Boiler
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011A while ago I wrote (almost exactly one year ago!) about camp stoves, and how I’m NOT buying a jet boil. Well, around this time I start to think now and again that it would be SO NICE to have a quick and easy way to make a cup of tea in the mornings while [...]
Freezing Juice
Thursday, May 26th, 2011File this under “Something I should have figured out a long time ago, but didn’t.” The backstory is that I’ve always had a difficult time staying hydrated; I just never really drank as much water as I knew I should. While this was always a minor problem in humid and damp NYC, it became a [...]
Green Smoothies in My Blender
Thursday, May 19th, 2011I’ve been drinking a whole lot of smoothies for breakfast these days, and I love starting my day that way! But I started wondering if eating all of that fruit was really as healthy as I thought. Fruit is delicious and an important part of our diet, but it also contains a lot of sugar. [...]
Little Trickeries
Monday, May 9th, 2011I have a confession to make – we’ve been fooling the kids with fake meat. It started a couple of months ago – my partner and I really reached a point where we weren’t interested in eating any more cheaply sourced but high in impact meat. So we wanted to stop eating as much meat [...]
Locavore Seltzer
Thursday, April 28th, 2011I’ve encountered the coolest thing at two different friends houses recently, which makes me think there might be a bit of a trend happening: the Soda Stream enables one to make fizzy water at home, eliminating the need for plastic soda bottles (and for schlepping those plastic soda bottles home from the store). The company [...]
Tiny Passover Choices
Thursday, April 21st, 2011In addition to daffodils and green shoots beginning to unfurl from tree limbs, springtime also means it’s Passover time again! This also means it’s matzoh time, which, if you love matzoh, is a good thing. If you don’t love matzoh, well, then it’s a long week ahead– and here are some tips to use up [...]
Recyclable Ziplocs?
Monday, April 11th, 2011A couple of months ago I found an article about Ziploc bags, and how they will be recyclable – perhaps even to be collected at a local store near you! They’ve partnered with RecycleBank, which is an interesting points-based program wherein you buy specially marked boxes of a product, pledge to recycle the packaging, and [...]
Corks in Wine Bottles
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011I’m getting frustrated about corks in wine bottles. Rather, I LOVE corks in wine bottles – I’m getting frustrated about the NON-cork stoppers used in so many wine bottles! I’ve tried lots of things, like Not drinking wine Drinking wine from boxes Drinking wine from screw top lids but right now I’m on a local [...]
What’s the deal with Carob, anyway?
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011I was thinking over the weekend: what’s the deal with carob? If you ask anyone what the quintessential hippie-slash-treehugger food is, the answer is probably going to be CAROB. Just check the comments on Jenn’s post where she divulged that her parents owned a natural food store! Carob is featured heavily in that discussion. When [...]
Girl Scout Cookies & Orangutans
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead I briefly mentioned this fantastic story in a Happy Eco-News Friday post, but it warrants way more attention than that, because these two 15-year old Girl Scouts are my [...]
Q&A with Tiny Footprint Coffee, & Giveaway!
Thursday, March 17th, 2011We were recently introduced to our bretheren in Tiny Choosingville, Tiny Footprint Coffee, and became immediately enamored with their ethos and motivation. So we’re thrilled to present a Q&A with Tiny Footprint– and read to the bottom of the post for today’s giveaway of free coffee! What’s the story behind Tiny Footprint Coffee– where did [...]
CSA Season Start-up!
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011I know, we talk about this every spring, don’t we? But really: don’t forget to sign up for your local CSA this year! I am going to mail in a check for our deposit this week. Actually, our regular CSA has changed their categories, and I think it’s because the regular “full share” from last [...]
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