2022 Making, Growing, Zero-Waste Goals

It's the new year! I have a laundry list of annual goals as per usual. I have divided up my goals into categories hoping to hit just a few per category to keep things realistic.

Suburban Homesteading: Reflecting as I Put the Garden to Bed

Today we had our first frost which wiped out the end of the Summer crops. I cut 10 small, green pumpkins off the vine and lined them up in the sunshine in hopes that they'll ripen just a bit more. It wasn't a particularly good harvest year for us, but we did enjoy some garden …

Recycled Swimwear from City Threads

Every year around the beginning of Spring, I start hunting for Summer gear for the kids. I typically opt for secondhand first, but Summer 2020 was a rough year and thrifted swim wear has been extra hard to find this Summer. After posting about this on Instagram stories, City Threads reached out to me asking …

Biking Goals (for people who don’t love biking)

As sustainable as I like to believe that our family is, car emissions are a huge blind spot for us. Before kids, we were a 1 car family and I adored taking the bus and train to commute to work. It was an hour long, often sketchy, often snowy trek, but it was my daily …

Suburban Homesteading Here We Come!

We moved into our new house here in the suburbs in October of 2020. I looked it up and we have approximately 0.2 acres, although after moving from the city we feel our yard is sprawling! Our backyard is tiered and partially shaded, but I see nothing but potential. We did a record amount of …

Book Review: The Family Guide to Waste-Free Living

“The Family Guide to Waste-Free Living” has been on my list since the instant it came out! I had to get on a waitlist for an inter-library systems loan and also put in several requests for my library to purchase a copy. It was absolutely worth the wait though! Authors Oberon and Lauren Carter (waste-free husband …

Zero-Waste Hair Care

Zero-waste hair care is an on-going process! Figuring out how to style and fix my hair using eco-friendly products has been years in the making. In the past I did no-poo and used zero-waste DIY curly girl products. While that worked great for short hair, it doesn't work at all for my now quite long …

Thoughts on Low-Waste During a Pandemic

I've been feeling somewhat lost. Between a new baby, a lock down, and moving out to the suburbs, zero-waste hasn't been on my radar the same way it used to be. When lock down began, I had a 2 month old baby so I immediately switched all of my shopping to online deliveries only and …

The Birth of Orson Wilde

Orson Wilde joined us Sunday, 2/2/2020 at 10:07pm. He was 7lbs2oz, 19" long, and caught by his Mama in the front seat of the car. I spent 3 weeks in prodromal labor between 36-39 weeks gestation, and they were some of the most physically and emotionally draining weeks of my life. Every day I'd think …

Zero-Waste Hospital Bag

What's in my zero-waste hospital bag? I'm thrilled to say we've made it to 37 weeks so this is now my zero-waste birth center bag! The main difference being that the hospital keeps birthing families for a few days while the birth center sends you home after a few hours so much less packing is …