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Tag Archives: gardening
An Earth Day Award…to My Mom!
I received an email about halfway through the day yesterday from my mom asking me to give her a call at work. Of course I picked up the phone and called to see what was up. She was super excited … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Local, Local - Florida
Tagged Cafeteria, Elementary school, Environment, gardening, Recycling, TerraCycle, upcycling
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Tips for Celebrating Earth Day with Your Children
Do your kids share the love of nature with you? How do you teach them to be good environmental stewards and take care of the gifts that have been given to us? Earth Day is a good reminder for us … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Natural Parenting
Tagged Children and Youth, cloth diapers, Earth Day, events, gardening, Guinness World Records, nature, Recycling
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Five Things I Don’t Want You to Know
My husband and I have a great relationship but like all spouses we pick on each others weaknesses when we get frustrated. This weekend he picked on my green weaknesses so I decided to turn it into a blog post. … Continue reading
TerraCycle Garden Collection
In my last post (yes, I do realize I haven’t written in almost 2 weeks…VACATION!!!!) I wrote about joining a Terra Cycle Brigade. So what do they do with all of those items they collect? In todays post I’m going … Continue reading
Posted in Contests & Giveaways, Environment
Tagged gardening, Reuse, Terra Cycle, upcycling
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Upcycling and TerraCycle
We’ve all heard the term RECYCLING but how many of you have heard the term UPCYCLING? Anyone want to take a guess what the definition of UPCYCLING is? According to Wikipedia; Upcycling is the use of waste (trash) materials to … Continue reading
Posted in Contests & Giveaways, Environment
Tagged cleaning, gardening, Recycling, TerraCycle, upcycling
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Our Compost and Garden
I wanted to share the pictures from our weekend project (finally!). Remember I told you how we made our very own compost bin, well here it is! All it took was a 36″ X 5′ roll of chicken wire and … Continue reading






















