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Today I Nearly Ate a Snail

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Today I Nearly Ate a Snail
posted on: Mar 5, 2011 | author: Brad

A Sense of Humus

Today our new compost-maker arrived in the mail and the dogs have given the box the official Sniff of Approval.  This...

A Sense of Humus
posted on: Mar 2, 2011 | author: Brad

You gotta play to win

This week we won a pretty cool little composter from The Crunchy Chicken blog, not to be confused with Crunchy Onion...

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posted on: Feb 28, 2011 | author: Brad

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posted on: Feb 27, 2011 | author: Brad
Water out of Thin Air, part 1

Water out of Thin Air, part 1

posted on: Feb 27, 2011 | author: Brad

It was years before I realized that you could already buy this product from several online vendors, a testimony to the infancy of...

Reuse Sparkling Cider Bottles

posted on: Feb 19, 2011 | author: Brad

It turns out that several great facts converge to make this cool tip.  Unlike wine bottles, champagne and sparkling cider bottles both have...

Fermenting Foibles

Fermenting Foibles

posted on: Feb 13, 2011 | author: Brad

Last week I posted a picture of what happens when you keep your Kombucha in a closed cabinet with no ventilation. The chrome gets eaten off your...

Slug Tavern Beer Trap

Slug Tavern Beer Trap

posted on: Feb 12, 2011 | author: Brad

I can’t remember where I learned this trick.  It was probably from my Grandfather, which means I saw it about 40 years ago and remembered it...

9 Simple Ways to Green Your Workplace

posted on: Feb 11, 2011 | author: Brad

Your company may already have some greening programs as part of a larger Corporate Responsibility policy. That’s great, but when you look...

Out with the old, in with the phew?

posted on: Feb 10, 2011 | author: Brad

From this question on Twitter. @ecoideasnet @ecotraveler Any chance you’ve some #ecoideas on how 2 line wastebaskets w/o plastic bags? <...

Pineapple Carpaccio

Pineapple Carpaccio

posted on: Feb 4, 2011 | author: Brad

We’re eating a lot more raw food but not nearly enough raw dessert. Tonight we had Pineapple Carpaccio with star anise syrup and coconut ice...

A Gift That Keeps on Giving

posted on: Jan 31, 2011 | author: Brad

When we started to go another level deeper in aligning some of our lifestyle more to our core beliefs I wasn’t really sure what our friends...

Make Money and Lose Weight Blogging

posted on: Jan 29, 2011 | author: Brad

Ha ha.  Sorry I just had to use that title since it seems to be the most popular term on the internet.  Actually in this case it’s true,...

An Extraordinary Mention

posted on: Jan 28, 2011 | author: Brad

Today on the blog One Life That Shines, Jackie posted a great article entitled Extraordinary Personified, in which she briefly mentioned...

The Breakfast of Champions

The Breakfast of Champions

posted on: Jan 27, 2011 | author: Brad

Breakfast for the last several days has been from another great recipe out of Raw Food Real World. Using our oven as a dehydrator we made a couple of...

Where's the beef?

posted on: Jan 25, 2011 | author: Brad

This is one of those things that should make non-organics examine their eating habits, and I have to admit, even I love me some occasional weekend...

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