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Spring is coming fast on Vancouver Island and I am starting to get the garden into shape. I am going to be spending a lot of time with the kids in the garden this year as I try to make it productive. Here are some ‘before’ pictures as to what the garden looks like after … Continue reading Early Spring Garden Photo Essay Back in 2008 we remember the panic caused when we first learned about bisphenol A (BPA) and its presence in baby bottles and other plastics and the potential for serious health problems. In Canada many products that contained BPA were pulled from shelves and have since been replaced by BPA free items. So is BPA … Continue reading BPA – Still a Hot Topic  Noodle Necklace I don’t want to sound like an old lady but, whatever happened to being creative when choosing art and craft supplies? The craft stores are full of ready packaged crafts, just empty the bag and assemble. Some days that is great, with no thought involved I can give the kids something semi-creative to do. Usually, however, … Continue reading “Found” Art Materials  With Martin doing the Geocache Diet weight loss challenge Lisa thought she needed a challenge of her own. True to her nature Lisa decided not to do some competitive quantitative challenge, instead an abstract, creative, ‘feel good’ challenge is more her speed. Lisa’s challenge is to make her garden look beautiful and productive. As other novice … Continue reading Lisa’s Garden Challenge  Lately we have been questioning our food choices. It is widely advertised that eating fish is a part of a healthy diet and in our grocery stores one of the best deals on fish is Basa. We have made the decision not to eat Basa (a type of Catfish) anymore. We had already made the decision to not … Continue reading Should We Stop Eating Basa?  This is a non-suet (beef fat) suet cake. We used lard (usually pig fat) from the freezer section of the supermarket. Suet can really smell up your house so if you decide to go that route you may want to melt it outside. Lard has no smell at all and next time I may try … Continue reading How to Make a Suet Cake with a Preschooler 
A major part of our transition is to eat healthier foods. The Geocache Diet is based on increasing exercise but of course eating well is also a vital part of feeling well. We also want to provide our kids with the best ‘fuel’ possible so they can do all that energetic kids stuff. We are … Continue reading Free-form Donburi So the question is, why do we use so many herbicides and chemicals in our gardens? I think the answer is we don’t have the time anymore to weed the “old fashioned way”. Have a look at this blog on a free, earth-friendly weed killer. Not only is it good for our environment, it’s cheap! “Free, … Continue reading Earth Friendly Weed Killers  |
  
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