I am pleased to share the next step in our homemade kombucha adventure and our recipe. If you are wondering what got us started on the kombucha and fermented foods craze you can find out more here or why kombucha is known as the miracle health elixir read more here. As I wrote about previously,...

Somewhere along the way we discovered kombucha at a natural food store, it was actually Nathan and his love of tea. He was surprised when he took his first drink because of how different it tasted. Very much fermented with a hint of vinegar. He had me try it too, I wasn’t a fan but...

I’ll admit it, as a family of four I am now getting my butt kicked with the laundry. It is not so much the cloth diaper laundry that is killer but just the shear volume of stuff to wash in a week. Sure the spit up outfits and bedding is a temporary contributing factor as...

I figured this would be a timely post to help parents and children color their Easter Eggs naturally this weekend. Initially we weren’t planning to dye eggs with Everly this year for a number of reasons. I hate the smell, taste and concept of hard boiled eggs. It makes me want to puke and with...

Well, I did it! I finally prepared as somewhat “raw” meal for the family and it wasn’t half bad. Technically since we used a skillet instead of the food dehydrator it wasn’t 100% raw in terms of cooking but it was much different that what we’ve gotten used to. I made black bean burgers. Sounds...

I’ve had green cleaning on the brain as a result of helping a friend with her eco-friendly cleaning company. Not only is it something I feel passionate about but it is also insanely cheap (cheaper than most of the toxic commercial cleaners sold in stores) and refreshingly many people are looking to green their own...

On our quest to live more sustainably and to be more eco-friendly we’ve made several changes to our daily lives. As some of you already know, I’ve made the switch from disposable feminine hygiene products to reusable ones this year. Being a seasoned cloth diapering mom has proved that bodily functions aren’t world ending in...

Yesterday our AC was out and we spent the day in a 80+ degree house waiting on the repair man. It started getting warm in the wee hours of the morning, like 3am-ish. The night was sleepless because of the uncomfortable temperature of the house and we all were up and at em quite early...

What Evansville, Indiana lacks in natural food stores it makes up for with farmers… Back in Flagstaff, Arizona we loved our natural food store but when we joined the local CSA we weren’t that impressed with the variety of the shares we got. The things we got were good, it was just the exact same...

It is only May 6th and we already have over fifty photos in our May 2010 digital photo album. Figured I could make this a photo essay of the last week or so to recap and share it all. What? Pictures are the only way I can seem to remember what I’ve done these days....