Pete and Izzy's Mom's Blog – April 2010 Archive (4)

In honor of Earth Day I'm posting today about something near and dear to my heart. :) Cloth diapering. When I was pregnant with my first baby, my husband and I knew right from the start that we would cloth diaper. It just made sense to us. Our mothers had used cloth diapers on us and we were convinced they would be more comfortable and healthier for our baby. That was number one. High on my list was the fact that we would be sparing landfills a whopping 1 ton of trash by the time our son potty… Continue

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So, starting seedlings indoors turned out to be a smashing success. I started 216 plants on my kitchen counter top and they pretty much did the work… Continue

Last year we put quite a lot of money and time into building a chicken coop. Knowing basically nothing about chickens we ventured out to a place we found on Craigslist and got ourselves some hens. They were young but the guy who owned the place assured us they were all female and that they would… Continue