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Tasty Bits v1.16

Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...

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Living Simply: Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday open thread for the Living Simply group. If you are not familiar with our group, the basic idea, from our profile, is: A group to explore and share sustainable, simple living...

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Living Simply: Zero waste and the Great Disruption

Last week's diary was on a very specific topic--bathroom trash.  I think it's important to talk about specifics, because that is where the actual work is done on a consumer level, but it's also...

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Living Simply: Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday open thread for the Living Simply group. If you are not familiar with our group, the basic idea, from our profile, is: A group to explore and share sustainable, simple living...

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Living Simply: Zero Waste in the news

Usually my zero waste diaries are about zero waste in the home, but I wanted to feature an exciting zero waste news story coming out of Texas, of all places.  It got a surprising amount of publicity...

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A rabbit in every pot: a tale of food independence almost anyone can enjoy....

A couple months ago I had bariatric surgery, and in the course of recovering I stumbled on an article on raising rabbits.  I became so fascinated that it quickly turned into an obsession.  I scoured...

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Raising meat rabbits: a tale of food independence almost anyone can...

WARNING:  This diary discusses the raising of rabbits for human consumption.  If this topic disturbs you, please do not proceed.  

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93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden in Your Front Yard?

According to Oak Park, Michigan, Julie Bass has violated the local city ordinance of what one can and cannot have for landscape in their front yard.  Water wasting turf?  YES!Ornamental plants that...

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Living Simply: Zero waste and community

I'm usually more focused on zero waste and recycling nitty gritty in this diary series, but today I'd like to write about the bigger picture.  It's strange how zero waste threads through almost...

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Tasty Bits v1.19

Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes.  I hope you all had a good holiday weekend (if you're in the US)! Each week I glean tasty bits from the...

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Living Simply: Zero Waste and reality

I know this was already mentioned in the Hadley cell diary on the Texas drought, but I want to push it front and center.   "24 Hours of Reality will focus the world’s attention on the full truth,...

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Tasty Bits v1.20

Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...

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Garlic - A Foray into Food Independence

Given that we have Garden Blogging (ala Saturday Morning), and groups for Living Simply and Urban Homesteading onsite now, I decided to share my experiences with growing and harvesting a low...

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Feasting green, cheap, and healthy - some recipes

I've been living frugally for almost a decade now, grew up in a family that was frugal even when we lived in what I now understand to be upper middle class. That was passed down from my grandparents on...

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Tasty Bits v1.21

Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring...

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Living Simply: Zero Waste day-to-day

This really is more of a diary diary, my own mundane experience with living the zero waste lifestyle as best I can.  I am late in writing this week; I've been trying hard to find community here in...

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I Planted a Recession Garden for the Veggies, it Fed my Soul Instead

I've had gardens before.  Some have even been spectacular.  Others...ehhh...just average.  To quote an old Salsa song, however, I've always contended that "de acuerdo a la semilla, asi seran los frutos...

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Living Simply: Zero waste and furniture

I am pleased with myself; I am putting my money where my mouth is with zero waste.  For a year now I have been planning on getting a larger bed, and even though I'm watching every penny and worried...

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Canning Tomatoes

If you were lucky, and got a bountiful tomato crop this year, you will want to preserve your harvest.Canning is a food process that was invented during the Napoleonic Wars, and mushroomed in popularity...

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Frozen Peppers and 50 Cent Gallons of Home Made Laundry Detergent

It's been a busy week.Crazy busy. That's a good thing. I shouldn't complain.But tonight I'm settling down to preserving some veggies I should have preserved days ago. Got some bell peppers I'm slicing...

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