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Vegetable Garden Prep
With the weather warming up and the sun shining (and while social distancing), our focus has been on getting our garden ready for planting. There was already a fenced off area of pebbles…
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Transitioning to Shampoo Bars
Making my own soaps is on my list of skills I want to acquire to lead a more self sufficient life, but until then, I have a favourite local soap maker I visit…
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Homemade Beeswax Food Wraps
Saying goodbye to plastic wrap is easier than you’d think! In our quest to live a more eco-friendly sustainable lifestyle, we’ve been looking for ways to minimize how much plastic we use on…
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Microplastics, and Why We Need To Reduce Our Plastic Use
This post contains affiliate links. “Zero Waste” is a highly popular topic these days, with good reason. More and more people have begun to look more closely at the waste we are all…
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How to Save Money On Kids Clothes!
Most of the clothes my kids wear are used clothes. Now, this is for a few reasons. The first being that it's simply not cost effective for our single income family to purchase…