Sustainable Living

A Garlic Prelude

The tender portion of the garlic scape can be chopped and used like an onion scallion in recipes and it offers a delightful mild garlic flavor. They are excellent in soups, stir-fries, pesto…

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Every time I talk to a customer about composting toilets, there’s a glimmer of fear lurking in the conversation. “What if it doesn’t work?” they ask.

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Dandelions

Wild in the City

When I moved to town from the country a few years ago, this backyard was one of those pristine, closely clipped lawns with a lovely flower garden in the midst of it. Not anymore. The flower garden this year grew corn and beans and squash, and wild sunflowers graced the back of the garage. Smaller oil type sunflowers grew on the south side of the patio, mixed in with millet and whatever else was in that cup of birdseed I scattered there. So now you’re thinking I must be some kind of nut, else why would I purposely let my backyard go to weeds?

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