This is a pretty big question that I think we can all continue to ask ourselves every day, no matter how far along our healthy journey we are. We might be close to our healthy peak in one area of our lives, but in another area we might have lots of work to do. It’s [...]
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Fun tip of the day! Did you know that… Tap water often contains chlorine, which can be damaging to plants? It’s true! The chlorine in water isn’t the best thing for your house plants, but there’s a simple fix to rescue them if they are started to look a little sad: Step One: Fill a [...]
This year for Thanksgiving, I managed to convince the mother dear to purchase a local, organic, free-range turkey for the annual meal. It cost about a dollar more per pound, but it was worth every penny to switch to an ethically-raised turkey from our usual Butterball. The Stats: Turkeys on factory farms are killed by [...]
Yesterday I took an all-day food handler course for my work with Fruit Share, which resulted in an exam at the end of the day (I passed with 98%. Awesome ). I learned some important things about handling food, and throughout the day I made several observations which I thought I might share with you… [...]
Photos courtesy of another Fruit Share volunteer.
Last week the boyfriend and I travelled to Sleeping Giant to hike 53 km over the course of 3.5 days. It was an amazing trip – we both have such a passion for hiking and really enjoyed both the beauty of the scenery and the challenge of the trail. This was easily the toughest hike [...]
I have been reading the amazing book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by the very talented Barbara Kingsolver. Her book is about how she and her family spent an entire year living on a farm, growing their own food and eating local. It’s fascinating to be able to read about such a [...]
We all know that it’s important to conserve energy, but sometimes we don’t really think about all of the little things that we can do to conserve energy and save on electricity. The notion of Earth Day (in April) is great, but unfortunately I think that a lot of people turn off the lights for [...]
Today is my first official day of the six-month high-raw mostly-vegan adventure! And I’m especially excited because soon I will have home-grown greens to incorporate on a regular basis to my raw vegan diet. I’ve talked about the urban organic indoor community garden that I’m a part of here and here, so I’m happy to [...]
