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Rather than spraying chemical-laden air fresheners, choose one of these seven natural ways to make your living space smell a little nicer.
1. Invest in houseplants. Have your favorite plants and herbs growing in your kitchen, living room and...
What Your Garden Weeds Mean
The best way to learn about your soil’s health is to get a soil test through your local cooperative extension service or at a local nursery. However, there are a few simple things you can do to get a general idea about your soil’s health....
5 Key Strategies for a Plastic Free Life
Here are the 5 key strategies we learned, which can help anyone live with less plastic:
#1: Expect failure!!
As the team of bloggers over at Growing a Greener World put it, this is one challenge in which failure is almost certain—and that’s...
Options For A WaterLess Lawn
When it comes to manicured lawns, the green choice is always to go without unless the lawn is functional and practical for, say, a play area for kids. Otherwise, lawns use a ton of water, and don’t offer many benefits. How much water does...
8 Things You Didn’t Know you Could Recycle
I have a large, shameful pile of junk in my basement that has been growing out of control for three years. I try not to look at it when I pass it, because when I do, I inevitably feel that flush of guilt: “Why haven’t I recycled this stuff...
4 Easy-to-Grow Medicinal Plants
Medicinal herbs have a rich tradition of use throughout human history. It is easy and enjoyable for the home gardener to grow her own medicinal herbs, whether on a windowsill or in the garden proper. The following are a number of medicinal herbs...
Healthy Indoor Herbs
1. You must prevent your herbs’ roots from rotting if you want productive plants. Re-pot your herbs with a well-draining soil mix. Specialty cactus-growing mediums work great because they are designed to drain extremely well, but you can also...
6 Shocking Air Pollutants In Your Home
All the major air pollutants (car exhaust, factory fumes, sidewalk smokers) are outside, right? Not so much. Indoor air may be the grimiest stuff our lungs filter each day. Studies show that things like candles, printers, and even shoes can...
5 Benefits of DIY
Do you DIY? There are so many things to embrace about making things by hand – the ingenuity, the dedication, the mistakes, the financial savings, the customization, the gift giving possibilities, the skills learned, and lessening the environmental...
6 Ways to Beat Mosquitos Naturally
Before you grab that DEET-based mosquito repellent in an effort to keep the mosquitoes at bay, consider that research at Duke University links diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET) use to brain damage —no wonder the mosquitoes leave at the first...
