Mark & Beth's Homegrown Adventure
We're learning how to live more sustainably at home in the suburbs. Come along and learn with us!
Tag: Responsible Living
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Here’s What We Did (and reused) in Week 1
Okay, so I know it’s not really week 1 of gardening. We’ve been planning and starting seeds for months. But the weather was sooo nice this week in western Pennsylvania, that it really felt like the beginning of the real gardening season for me. So let me tell you about what we did! The biggest
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Foraging Series: Dandelions!
So as I mentioned the other day in my post about using the wild onion grass, Mark and I are both foraging newbies. So for the second attempt at foraging, I went for another plant that I was 100% confident I could identify. Really, all of us who have ever lived somewhere with a yard
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First-Time Indoor Seed Starting!
Hi everyone, happy Monday! More importantly, happy Spring! I know it’s technically been Spring for a couple weeks now, but it hasn’t really felt like it here in Western PA. It’s been cloudy and cold, keeping us inside when we’ve really wanted to launch into the garden. But hey, that’s why we started some seeds
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First Foraging Foray – Wild Onion Grass
One of the things Mark and I are planning to learn more about is foraging for food in a sustainable way. We’re complete newbies, so I need to add a disclaimer – don’t go eating any plants that you have not meticulously identified yourself after thorough research! All I’m intending to do is share our
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Doomsday Prepping… Or just being more responsible?
Hi there! My name is Beth, and my partner Mark and I have become increasingly consumed with the idea of how to be more independent (and I don’t mean more independent of each other). Like many people, pretty much everything we get in life requires using money to buy it from someone else. All of
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