If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Subscribe to the newsletter.Thanks for visiting!GAH! Fruit flies. God damn mother $#@%&*ing fruit flies. With the CSA this summer -there were flies. With the aging bananas that are on my counter always – there are flies. But when summer ended and turned to a...
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Today is World Food Day. When you sit down to eat every day, do you think about how the meal you’re eating is the product of a complex, and broken, global food system? This World Food Day, Oxfam America is teaming up with a host of allies across the US and around the globe. We have a simple yet compelling idea—to host a...
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I went to the grocery the other day, spur of the moment, so, no bags. When I asked for paper the bagger took out a paper bag IN a plastic bag. “The paper bags don’t have handles so we have to put them in plastic if you want to carry them that way.” Or anyway for that matter, I think to myself. The paper bags were...
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Again, I don’t think I can take credit for this one either. I don’t know if I saw it somewhere or if it just came to me in a vision as I was looking at yet another egg carton in the recylcle bin. You’ll need: egg carton construction paper markers scissors glue I know most sites would...
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And we don’t just use ‘em on bums around here! My kids use cloth napkins when I can get them to use a napkin at all. It’s difficult to get a kid to use a napkin when they think that their shoulder is an equally good alternative. It’s a struggle I know, but if it’s going to end up with one bit of yogurt...
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They said WHAT?