Sustainable Harvest

Eco Choices for Self Care

sahmama12 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:57:05 +0000

We generally douse ourselves in numerous chemicals each day, sometimes hundreds before we even eat breakfast. Soaps and shampoos contain many sketchy chemicals that can harm us or the environment but more alarming is the chemicals in products like cosmetics and deodorants because these products spend more than a few minutes on our skin before [...]

DIY Organic Gardening

sahmama12 — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:54:08 +0000

Many people are getting interested in organic hobby gardening, especially with the latest ban on the cosmetic usage of several pesticides in Ontario. There are several ways to go about organic gardening in your home. I’ll briefly cover a few of them. There is lasagna gardening where instead of tilling up the soil, destroying the [...]

Ecological Effects of Our Birth Control Choices

sahmama12 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:41:57 +0000

I’d like to post this Earth Day about our environmental impacts of our birth control choices. First off, hormonal birth control whether the pill, patch or shot cause millions of women to literally pee out synthetic estrogens into our water sheds. This impacts fish and other wildlife and causes fertility issues. Progestin only pills, a.k.a [...]

Sustainable Forestry

sahmama12 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:07:44 +0000

I must begin by stating my biases. I am a Forestry Tech by training and my husband still practices forestry by trade. I don’t believe that my belief in forest management is incompatible with my ecological leanings, actually I feel that is to the contrary. Many environmentalists lean towards conservation, which is a good way [...]

Traditional Foods

sahmama12 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:29:55 +0000

A new food movement has been gaining ground recently. It’s been in existence for several decades but in recent times with the wake-up calls of news reports concerning GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and mercury found in HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) it has gained more proponents. It is the traditional food movement. Originally spurred on [...]

Gardening Plans

sahmama12 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:20:58 +0000

One of the ideas I have been toying with myself lately is edible landscaping. We rent a small plot of land in a tiny rural village and our landlord has give us permission for a garden and any “lawn” area is mostly overgrown native grasses anyway so ripping it up and planting beautiful easy to [...]

Minimizing Your Parenting Ecological Footprint

sahmama12 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:54:53 +0000

As parents we have a double ecological duty; to reduce our own and our family’s environmental impact, and to teach our children about responsible stewardship. Some of the ways to reduce our family impact: *use green or natural cleaners like vinegar and baking soda *use soaps without phosphates *use cloth diapers or unbleached disposables and [...]

Are You There, World? It’s Me…

sahmama12 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:12:19 +0000

This is just a post to encourage you all to post comments. I know your out there, my widgets are tracking you. So post something people. Agree, disagree, just to say Hi, plug your own blog. Post a comment. Posted in Uncategorized

Ethical Meat

sahmama12 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:52:44 +0000

Ethical and ecologically sound meat sound ridiculous today. But it is possible and with just a little bit of effort. Most of the effort is in rearranging our thinking about meat production. For example, beef raising is an ecological nightmare, right? Wrong. Well, wrong in the sense that it doesn’t have to be. Cattle evolved [...]

Community Supported Agriculture

sahmama12 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:52:14 +0000

CSA, or community supported agriculture is the general name given to a specific form of CSA, that is the practice of raising vegetables and selling them in prepaid variety boxes to customers established in the spring. This is what most people are referring to when they use the term CSA. But in the most technical [...]