Julie Fontaine

The Benefits of Sustainable Living: A Guide for Beginners

Sustainable living is a lifestyle that emphasizes minimizing our impact on the environment in order to protect it for future generations. It requires making conscious decisions to reduce energy consumption, minimize waste, and conserve resources. Taking steps such as switching to renewable energy sources, refusing single-use items, composting organic materials, and shopping secondhand can all […]

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Amazing Facts about Bamboo

Green Products, Growing, Living / Julie Fontaine

About Bamboo Amazing Facts About BambooBamboo – an amazing and versatile plant. Let’s dive in and discover some amazing qualities of bamboo. You will also discover how bamboo is an exceptional example of an eco-friendly resource, and some places it’s found in history. Bamboo in History Pop Quiz! What did Thomas Edison use as the

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What’s the Difference between Organic vs Green vs Sustainable?

Green Products / Julie Fontaine / green living

Organic vs Green vs Sustainable Organic vs green vs sustainable, all these terms hints at awareness about environmental and social responsibility. We often use these terms interchangeably but what’s really the difference? To clarify this confusion we’ll dive into the between the terms organic, green and sustainable. We describe what organic, sustainable and green products

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How Do I Insulate A Window From Cold?

Living / Julie Fontaine / energy savings, insulation

Easy Window Insulation If you live in an old house, or have old windows that are old, these old windows can be a major source of heat loss in the winter months and window insulation can help tremendously. A simple, inexpensive ways to reduce heating costs is to apply shrink wrap plastics to the windows.

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How to Make Bacon from Scratch

Food / Julie Fontaine / bacon, how-to, recipe

Make Bacon From Scratch How to make bacon from scratch is easier than you think. You can cure bacon without nitrites, since that is a specialty ingredient. This how to make bacon recipe is without nitrates or nitrites. Your biggest decision will be, once cured, whether you want to smoke it or not. This bacon

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Growing Purple Potatoes

Growing / Julie Fontaine / Growing, potatoes, purple potato, Vegetables

Are You Considering Growing Purple Potatoes? Purple potatoes are now on the grocery store shelves and offer great antioxidant qualities. Consider growing one of these four varieties of purple potatoes this season. The Peruvian Purple Potato is an heirloom direct from the Andes. Adirondack Blue, Purple Majesty and All Blue potato varieties are easy to

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Bowl of Roots: Roasted Vegetables

Food / Julie Fontaine / recipe, Vegetables

Roasted Vegetable Recipe – Bowl of Roots In the winter a wonderful side dish or vegetarian main dish is roasted vegetables made of “roots”. The ingredients used are up to you, but roasted roots, loosely defined to include potatoes, winter squash, yams, garlic and even turnip make a wonderful roasted vegetable dish. In this simple

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Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

Food / Julie Fontaine / butternut squash, recipe, soup

Easy Butternut Soup Recipe This butternut squash soup recipe makes and quick and easy meal. With just four ingredients it makes a great homemade dinner, best served with warm bread and butter. It will warm you up and make you feel good. Butternut squash days to harvest is about 100 days – which means this

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Composting Leaves

Composting / Julie Fontaine / compost, composting

Composting Leaves When fall comes, time for composting leaves is ideal. We’ve got lots of them and so instead of going into the landfill, composting leaves are a smart eco-friendly thing to do. The decomposition of leaves into compost provides a slow release nutrient source for plants when applied in our garden and around our

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Natural Flavors in Our Food – What is it?

Food / Julie Fontaine / food, natural flavors

Natural Flavors Have you noticed the words “natural flavors” near the bottom of the food ingredient list of may food labels? What exactly is “natural flavors” and why is it in my food? It seems to be everywhere from canned soup, barbecue sauce, ice cream, and is prevalent in most junk foods. Suspicious. Are these

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The Benefits of Sustainable Living: A Guide for Beginners

Amazing Facts about Bamboo

What’s the Difference between Organic vs Green vs Sustainable?

How Do I Insulate A Window From Cold?

How to Make Bacon from Scratch

Growing Purple Potatoes

Bowl of Roots: Roasted Vegetables

Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

Composting Leaves

Natural Flavors in Our Food – What is it?

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