I no longer find comfort in eating foods prepared by a minimum wage employee using mass-produced, chemically grown foods from a corporate farm raised by minimum wage employees. This includes fruits, vegetables, and meats injected with hormones and antibiotics and raised in deplorable, overcrowded, inhumane conditions. [Read more →]

Not only is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle an important component for simple living it is an important component for living lightly on the earth. It brings a sense of accomplishment and well-being, that with this simple concept we can lessen our impact on mother earth. The footprint we leave behind will effect future generations of all creatures who will share this beautiful world, two legged, four legged, multi legged, furred and feathered. [Read more →]

I like to use those nylon scrubbies to clean my cast iron pots & pans. Their not really natural but they will scour without harming the pan. Well, my last store bought scrubbie finally bit the dust.I had read somewhere that you can make your own using the netted bags that produce comes in, so I had been saving them for that purpose. [Read more →]

I know there are many of us looking forward to the rebate checks the government is sending out soon. Lord knows there are lots of folks that can use it. However, there’s something wrong with this picture. The government wants us to use those checks to buy more stuff. Junk we don’t need & could possibly put Americans further in debt if the money is used as a down payment on a big ticket item. [Read more →]