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A Gardener’s Meditation
Welcome to the July Mindful Mama Carnival: Mindfulness and Nature This post was written for inclusion in the Mindful Mama Carnival hosted by Becoming Crunchy and TouchstoneZ. This month our …
Get Unjunked
Healthy Child Healthy World recently introduced me to UNREAL™ – a candy supplier looking to change the way we look at junk food by directly challenging the food industry – …
Shoddy Garden, Happy Me
Carl has constructed a thing of beauty in our backyard. He has made us two small cedar-framed garden boxes to be used for growing our own vegetables. Unfortunately, what is …
Own Your Birth: My Hope For All Expectant Moms
Welcome to the June 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Embracing Your Birth Experience This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: …
Getting The Best From Our Local Farmers Market
This weekend, we spent a glorious Saturday morning at the Kingston Farmers Market. This market is the most local of local haunts in our area. Saint John also has a …
A Good Example of Just How Sustainable Things Might Be
I think this video has already made the rounds, but it’s new to me, so I thought I’d share. In this short TED talk, Dan Barber inspires with a tale of …
Gasp: How Much We Saved By Cloth Diapering
Our little man is outgrowing his sister’s cloth diapers. It seems that we’re not going to make it through potty training with the mix of medium and one-size diapers that …
Goodness All Around Us: Even Underneath Us
As a past urban-dweller, I just love the creativity of this Inhabitat interview with the designers of the (hopefully) soon-to-be Lowline Underground Park. It’s a wonderful example of pairing technology, …
Our Top 5 “Go To” Flexitarian Recipes
It has been 10 months since we stopped eating meat on weekdays. (That’s right – only on Saturdays and Sundays – check out our previous post Good All Around: Become …
The Eco-Mom Army: When The Stakes Are Too High
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to map out the “eco-mom” space in an attempt to understand who’s who in the online green mommy world. I have visited …
Meet the Gosselins
Morning with the Gosselins - September, 2012. Still living the dream (ha!).
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