http://blog.bolandbol.com Be joyful though you have considered all the facts Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha http://blog.bolandbol.com/saving-the-planet/small-changes-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-18316 Power Down | MamaStories Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:02:02 +0000 http://blog.bolandbol.com/here-and-now/#comment-18316 [...] We changed our eating habits: less meat, less food, more bulk, dry goods, and very little eating out. We are establishing a large food garden, with a hoop house for a winter harvest, and hopefully a beehive soon, and chickens. We work on our food storage and emergency supplies. The immediate goal is to grow and store enough and a healthy variety of food to feed two families, and to plant an extra row for the hungry. You can find more details of our lifestyle changes on the “What We Do” page. [...] [...] We changed our eating habits: less meat, less food, more bulk, dry goods, and very little eating out. We are establishing a large food garden, with a hoop house for a winter harvest, and hopefully a beehive soon, and chickens. We work on our food storage and emergency supplies. The immediate goal is to grow and store enough and a healthy variety of food to feed two families, and to plant an extra row for the hungry. You can find more details of our lifestyle changes on the “What We Do” page. [...]

]]> http://blog.bolandbol.com/saving-the-planet/small-changes-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-12839 Independence Days, Week 4 | MamaStories Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:52:48 +0000 http://blog.bolandbol.com/here-and-now/#comment-12839 [...] Waste not: The Starbucks coffee grounds have filled up all our compost bins - must make more (bins) because more (grounds) will be coming in. At the landfill I picked up bags and bags of perfectly fine board games, Mecano sets, a kid’s artist set, and, as you saw, a fat cockroach (*), as well as a small satellite dish that DH wants to turn into a solar oven. I got some more gardening tools through Freecycling. We’re continuing with all our usual stuff. [...] [...] Waste not: The Starbucks coffee grounds have filled up all our compost bins – must make more (bins) because more (grounds) will be coming in. At the landfill I picked up bags and bags of perfectly fine board games, Mecano sets, a kid’s artist set, and, as you saw, a fat cockroach (*), as well as a small satellite dish that DH wants to turn into a solar oven. I got some more gardening tools through Freecycling. We’re continuing with all our usual stuff. [...]

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