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  • green gardening - compost

    If you're a gardener then you'll know that store bought compost or top soil costs a pretty penny and is virtually impossible to find NOT in a plastic ...

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  • Gardening goes Green - pots & containers

    Every eco-conscious gardener knows that it's virtually impossible to avoid plastic when gardening. Whether on your gardening tools, plant stakes, plan...

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  • Flowers for valentines day

    According to studies by Hallmark 32% of US households will choose to celebrate Valentines day by sending flowers. 73% of flowers are bought by men, an...

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  • Sustainable seeds

    Gardening has seen an increase in the last year and especially food gardening. The downturn in the economy coupled with the food poisoning scares have...

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  • Homegrown in all sizes!

    Last week I mentioned how we changed part of our garden into a vegetable garden, easy if you are just converting lawn to garden but what about those o...

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  • Homegrown is greener

    I say started my eco journey about 2 years ago but realistically it's always been something I've thought about and wanted to embrace the lifestyle, I ...

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  • Recycling the holiday trees

    Well the Holiday season is almost over and it's time to start thinking about taking down the decorations. According to the National Christmas Tree Ass...

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  • Real or Fake, the great debate!

    Photo from Flickr by Akiko Yep it's the time of year when the age old question rears it's ugly head: Real tree or fake tree? Whilst ...

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  • Gift wrap gone green

    Photo from Flickr by Paper_Girl One of the things that has always amazed me about the holidays is that people spend hours...

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  • Make the switch to LED Holiday lights

    It's the holiday season and almost every house in our street is decorated with for the Season with lights. Twinkling bulbs of incandescent brightness ...

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