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8 Ways to Make your Home more Eco-Friendly
Jessie Stokes, Owner and Founder of Tiny Yellow Bungalow, an Eco Blog and One Stop Zero Waste Shop Guest blog post written by Jessie Stokes of Tiny Yellow Bungalow to inspire your Environmentally Friendly Lifestyle My family has been striving to live sustainably for about five years now. My experiments in sustainability and natural living…
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Eco-Friendly Living in a Tiny House: An Interview with RAD Tiny Home
Sophie and Henry with their dog Cora in their Tiny Home outside of Duluth, MN. Photo cred: Sydney Carlino In this interview, Sophie from RAD Tiny Home explains their journey of intentional, earth-friendly living in their custom-built tiny house on wheels outside of Duluth, MN. Bigger is better. At least, that’s the message from mainstream…
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Eco-Friendly Eating & Sustainable Living Tips to Celebrate Earth Month
How do you plan to celebrate Earth Day or Earth Month? From meal planning to plant-based eating to choosing seasonal vegetables, there are many ways to make a difference this Earth Month! Happy Earth Month! With spring finally starting to emerge, it seems like a perfect time to reflect on the beauty around us and…
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Benefits of Seasonal Eating to your Health, Planet, Budget, and Local Economy
Why should you eat seasonal fruits and vegetables? Eating seasonally saves money at the grocery store. Seasonal produce tastes better and is more nutritious. You can also be more eco-friendly and support your local economy. “It’s soup season!” you exclaim as you gather up the sunscreen and pack swimming towels into the bag, getting ready…
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Welcome to the Farm
I’m a farm kid at heart. I love big cities. I love exploring new places, trying new foods, and encountering new cultures. But there is something about the farm — something quiet, something peaceful. A stillness that, even in the the buzz of wheat harvest or the cold, dead of winter, I can only find at…
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The Modern “Industrial” Family Farm
Farm life. It’s quite romantic. Or rather, romanticized. Margaret Scheufler, mother, farmer, businesswoman, standing in an almost-ripe wheat field When I talk to anybody I’ve ever met who has lived in a city — or even in a town just miles away from farmland — I’m often surprised by what they think a farm is.…
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Fall: Harvest, Planting, and My (Dad’s) Happy Place
Fall is a busy time on a Kansas farm. It’s the place on the calendar where harvest and planting intersect. Milo harvest 2015 Unlike wheat harvest, which wraps up in less than two weeks, fall harvest lasts from September until all of the crops are harvested. Which, depending on the weather, can be anywhere from…
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Milo (Sorghum) Harvest 2015
Scheufler Farms, Inc. Fall Harvest 2015 is officially over. It ended last Friday, when the crew finished in the milo field. Grain cart filling the semi with milo Usually it’s the double-crop beans that are last crop standing in the field, but it was a warm, dry fall. Usually the first freeze of the year…
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The Harvest Crew
Every year my parents host a post-harvest celebration. They usually go out to a restaurant (that way mom gets to enjoy the time without worrying about cooking) and spend a couple of hours enjoying great company and great food. The crew has changed over the years. It used to take many more people to get…
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Crop Rotation
In case you hadn’t noticed, winter is upon us. Snow has blanketed the fields, temperatures have dropped, and the days are short. Getting set for the family photo… it’s cold! So what happens on a farm when the ground is frozen? More than you’d think. Like all the other seasons, winter is a thread in…
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