by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Living Green
It’s easy to toss out food once it hits its expiration or starts to look a little wilty. But plenty of produce is great for you, even if it is past what we think is its prime. Here are six of our top ways to prevent food waste and maximize your food budget. Use It Up...
by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Living Green
If you’ve never gone apple picking, it is the perfect time of year to do it: it’s still warm, leaves are changing, and the smell of fall is in their air. Get Pickin’ Apples are an easy fruit to pick, requiring no hands-and-knees work that berry picking does. In...
by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Living Green
Baking soda can be a life saver in the home. Not only is it incredibly common (really, where can’t you buy it?), it is also extremely inexpensive. But it does a lot more than what you think. Baking soda is a chemical compound that brings it’s wonder to everything from...
by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Living Green
With the summer at an end and fall officially here, we are packing up a lot of our gardens and exchanging much of our produce with winter squashes and tubers, instead. Unless you live in a warm climate, we are also losing our outdoor herb gardens, and indoor herb...
by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Living Green
It’s always the little things that help move us in the right direction. Perhaps we lower the thermostat a couple degrees and see our energy bill drop. Maybe we cut out out mindless snacking and our pants fit a little better. Possibly we take the stairs at work instead...
by ecoki | Sep 5, 2020 | Health & Beauty, Living Green
Kitchen scraps aren’t just meant to be tossed in the compost. In fact, one of the best cooking staples is made from shards and leftovers of random food-stuffs. Easy and big on flavour, making your own broth is one of the best thing you can do in your kitchen creating....
