If you garden, one of the best zero waste ways to deal with food scraps is to compost them.  So what do you do when everything breaks down i...

I recently read an article claiming that zero waste living doesn’t have to be expensive. That immediately said to an interviewed co...

I recently upgraded our single tumbling compost bin to this exact double tumbling compost bin hoping to correct some mistakes we made when ...

When someone asks why we started composting, my husband and I say it’s because we had to because all we had for garden was clay and zero top...

Every evening as part of my post dinner cleanup,  I try to dump our kitchen compost collector into the big tumbling compost bin outside to k...

 I’m thrilled to be partnering with Dollar Tree to share their Summer Fun products with you. This did not influence my opinion in any way b...

Now that I have a house with a yard, I’ve been forced into this gardening thing. Some days I like it. Other days, my fails remind me why I n...

The soil in my yard is so bad it makes me sing the Condo Blues. The builder sold the lovely topsoil that should be surrounding my house befo...

Happy New Year 2014! I find that I’m better at keeping my New Years Resolutions if I make them when I need them instead of making up ...

Husband and I are so occupied with an interior house wide, declutter and donate mission that we haven’t paid much attention to the outside o...

I watched the Extreme Cheapskates special on TLC. True to reality TV, they presented and edited the people featured as weird in the lengths ...

Last summer I made two compost bins fromRubbermaid tubs and violated the warranties on the tubs to do it 'cuz I'm Danger Girl. I...

One of the last things I do before the holiday gathering starts is clean my house. I suspect you might too. Or at the very least will need ...

Husband and I spent a day at the Ohio State Fair . When we were not eating local food – which is crazy easy to do at the State Fair, we were...

My in laws do a big garden every year. Husband says that they have had a garden for as long as he can remember. Father in law had a heath ...

My Home Owners Association (HOA)  lawn service killed the compost bin I made from a garbage can with a lawn mower last summer. A moment ...

I’ve been dealing with an itchy flaking scalp for the last six months and tag teaming the problem with my hairstylist and my family doctor. ...

I have a bunch of telephone books lying around the house. I don’t know how this happens - we don’t have a land line! We’re a cell phone as h...

“Mom and Dad said their soybeans are ready and we can have some if we want,” Husband said. “Why in the world would we want soybeans?” I sa...

As with most newly built homes, my developer sold off all of the wonderfully fertile topsoil in my neighborhood and built our homes on the c...