Composting Partnership

My hometown has an organization called Project Green Fork. You can read all about it here, but briefly, it’s a way to encourage food service providers to reduce or eliminate the amount of waste they generate. They oversee a six-step certification process. Upon...

January

I remarked recently on Facebook that the thing I like about January is that it’s as far away from next January as possible, and that’s pretty much the truth. However, there are a couple of other things I can stand about January: New Year’s Day grub,...

All Time Best #1: Secrets of the No-Sew Rag Rug

In honor of our 1000th post in October 2014, we are counting down our most popular posts of all time. Each has received over 100K hits, and this one is well over 500K! This week, at #1, is Secrets of the No-Sew Rag Rug! In honor of our 1000th post in October 2014, we...

All Time Best #3: Homemade Lotion Bars

In honor of our 1000th post in October 2014, we are counting down our most popular posts of all time. Each has received over 100K hits, and this one is over 350K! This week, at #3, is Homemade Lotion Bars! What is a lotion bar? It is a soap-hard manifestation of...

Frugal Homemade Gift Guide: Skin Care Edition

These are favorites around here. Both Deanna and I give these things as gifts and people love them. I deliberately formulated most of these to use the same ingredients so I don’t have to buy a bunch of different exotic oils and butters, just the basics. Lotion...