Join Mavis Butterfield for vegetable gardening and canning tips, easy recipes, and saving money strategies (Rug hooking, too!). Simple living at its best!
Since a major pet peeve of mine is food waste, I love hearing about new an innovative ways people are preventing it. There is a pop-up restaurant in London that I absolutely have to go to the next time I’m there {although it’s only open for another month, so I just might need to hustle Read More >>
Okay, I don’t want to rob Halloween of its fun, but did you know that we only turn about 1/5 of the pumpkins grown in the U.S. each year into usable, edible pumpkin {think canned pumpkin puree}? According to NPR, we grow 1.91 BILLION pounds of pumpkins each year, and most of them are used Read More >>
I often hear people say, “There’s an app for that,” when it comes to the dumbest things. But this new app in the UK is the coolest app I’ve ever heard of. Seriously, I need the US to get their junk together and get on board. It’s called Too Good To Go and it’s such Read More >>
NPR reported recently that Walmart {one of the largest grocery chains in the country} will be testing out selling ugly produce in 300 Florida stores. Ugly or imperfect produce is nothing new {which you already know if you garden}. Every year, an unfathomable amount of produce goes to waste because it doesn’t look the part Read More >>
I made it through an entire month and didn’t even fill a single grocery bag with trash. How cool is that? Even though I don’t think the average household can reduce their packaging 100%, I still think it’s pretty amazing how many resources are out there if we just take a few extra minutes each Read More >>
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