Category: sustainability
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Tips to Reduce Food Waste
According to the USDA, 31% of food is wasted on a retail and consumer level. This can be damaging to the environment and economy as it wastes land, water, labor, and energy required to produce this food. Most Americans are unaware of why this is so harmful to the environment. Intuitively, food breaks back down…
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How to Make Your Own Vegetable Stock
Cooking in this day and age can sometimes seem nearly impossible. We simply just don’t always feel equipped to just whip something out. That’s why having a kitchen stocked with some basic items is helpful in your cooking journey. I always keep plenty of vegetable stock and bone broth in my freezer to have on…
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How to Make Essential Oil From Orange Peels
Wanting to make your own essential oils without breaking the bank? Typically making essential oils at home can be pretty difficult. They required a large volume of herbs for very little yield. Making essential oils at home became achievable after learning how to extract orange essential oil. Keep reading to learn how to make essential…
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7 Things You Can Do with Dehydrated Orange Slices and Peels
If you haven’t gotten into the habit yet, I highly encourage dehydrating orange slices and peels. I love cutting up a few oranges and dehydrating them every so often, as I can keep them in my cabinet and pull them out every so often for decoration or a garnish. There are so many things to…
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Types of Compost Bins
In one of my most recent posts I discussed How to Compost in Your Backyard and recommended finding a bin that works best for you. We all live on different types of properties and live different lives. In order to have a successful composting experience, we need to find what bins work best for us.…
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What Can you Compost? Compostable Materials list
Everyone is always asking me what you can throw in your compost. I’ve heard crazy things like “you can’t compost orange peels” to “you can compost human feces”. So, what can you compost? I put this simple, easy compostable materials list that is perfect for beginners. Compostable Materials List The general things that you can…
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Why Compost? The Benefits of Composting
It seems that more and more people are talking about composting in an effort to help the environment. But helping the environment is just one of the many benefits of composting. Over the decades we’ve adopted a consumerist lifestyle. We seem to throw away things as soon as we obtain them. And although some of…
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A Simple Guide to Apartment Composting
In some of my recent posts I talked about Why You Should Compost, Backyard Composting: How to Start a Compost Pile, and Types of Compost bins. But a lot of my readers live in urban areas and want to learn more about apartment composting. To make things easy for you, I put together this simple…
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Backyard Composting: How to Start a Compost Pile
Composting has great benefits from helping our wallets to helping our environment. It’s also ridiculously easy and rewarding. If you’re a suburban folk, keep reading to learn How to Start a Compost Pile In Your Backyard. But before we start learning about how to start a compost bin, do you live in a city or…
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How to Make Your Own Bone Broth
Bone Broth has been everywhere in 2018, and I am shook with how much money people are willing to spend on it. Not only that, but I’ve actually been surprised by how much it’s been promoted in the media recently, considering we’ve been drinking bone broth for a very long time. Most people promoting it probably don’t realize that…