Guest Post: How to Save Money on Organic Produce

If you’re buying organic produce, you already know how good it is for you. Not only are you taking better care of your body, but you’re helping promote sustainable farming practices. And knowing your food doesn’t contribute to environmental destruction can give you wonderful peace of mind. But then there’s the cost. The sticker price [...]

Guest Post: Hosting an Eco-Friendly Holiday Party

The holidays can certainly be hectic, but if part of your seasonal tradition includes hosting a party for your closest family and friends, you’re not likely to let the hustle and bustle of shopping and shipping, cooking and eating, and hanging decorations stop you from doing the one thing you really love during the holidays.  [...]

Guest Post: Top Strategies for Reducing Food Waste in the Kitchen

Food waste is a big problem. In the UK alone, food waste accounted for some 6.7m tonnes of household waste in 2007 (and 19% of all total waste). Other facts equally staggering: 49% of potatoes are disposed of untouched, 45% of all salad is binned uneaten, and 190,000 tonnes of apples are thrown away. Most [...]

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Guest Post: Five Simple Reasons to Support Fair Trade

One of the issues with fair trade is that people don’t know enough about it. It is easier for us to buy a product and never question where it comes from, who made it and why it costs the amount stamped onto the price tag. We also never think about who might be losing out.  [...]

Guest Post: An Autumn Veggie Patch that will feed you all winter

Although it’s quite sorrowful as summer fades away and we pick the best of the crops from the autumn vegetable plot or allotment, there’s something quite comforting about stocking up for our winter hibernation and taking our remaining fruit and vegetables and turning them into preserves, wines, chutneys, or just simply blanching and freezing them [...]

Guest Post: Where to Buy Organic Produce

Buying organic produce can be a challenge sometimes, especially with the price of the fruits and vegetables being sky-high. However, the laundry list of benefits from buying organic can be reason enough – organic produce is held to higher standards than other produce, it reduces health risks, by forgoing pesticides you’re also helping the environment, [...]

Chocolate Tahini Fudge

Here is a great recipe that is not only delicious but good for you. Suitable for Vegetarians, Suitable for Vegans, Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Soy Free, Egg Free, Sugar Free   Makes 20 pieces   Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Guest Post: Jam making at The Damson Cabin

Blackberries, conkers and drifts of crisp leaves are turning the outdoors into a playground, so with the windy weather blown away and some sunshine forecast, it’s the perfect time to take the kids for a break in the countryside. And what better seasonal pursuit than jam-making! As well as the eponymous fruit of The Damson [...]

Ethical Dinosaurs

As regular readers will know, I’m in the process of moving house at the moment and I’m just starting to plan my son’s new room.  One of our potential themes is dinosaurs, as he’s keen to be a dinosaur hunter when he grows up.  I’ve found a few items that follow the dinosaur theme and [...]

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