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Zero Waste Holiday

Zero Waste Holiday

Last week we boarded a plane to head east to visit family for a week. My challenge for the week was to try to continue our journey towards cutting out plastics and eating non processed foods. To prepare; the day before I made up a big batch of our granola and a couple loaves of bread to have while in Ottawa. So I picked up a large stainless steel container for the granola and used my cotton bags for the bread. I do place the cotton bags of bread into zip locks which I reuse just so they won't dry...

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Zero Waste Valentines

Zero Waste Valentines

  This weekend Bean and I set out to make her Valentines for School. I've never been a big fan of buying cards so we usually try to make them. This year I wanted to do something that would be zero waste or close to and not be candy. So when I saw the idea of seed bombs I knew that was the project. Here's what we did:   Seed Bombs  Materials: Colored paper and news paper or just newspaper about 7 sheets Wild Flower seeds, small ones Blender or Food Processer (I found the food Processer worked best but...

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Jamie Bowen

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