I ride my bike everyday, have done for two years, I buy locally produced food, recycling is a given!!, light bulbs have been changed to energy efficiant..the work continues!

Using recycled stainless steel basins as rain collectors for watering purposes

reduce energi in my home, sort garbage, reduce use of plastic

Hello! I run a small, but growing subsistence farm, that provides local farmers and artisans, with a place to sell their produce and goods. We also have a walk through home micro farm, and composting lecture, to teach people how to grow most, or all of their own seasonal produce for free! Along with organic composting, from apartments, to large scale farms. The farm also does tours and lessons on using spent crop, and flower waste, household garbage, waste paper to grow beautiful, organic mushrooms, turning the spent material into composted fertilizer for the following crop season! Things could not be going better since starting my vision of a fully "off the grid" subsistence farm, that I could draw people to with beautiful, cheap, LOCAL, produce, and goods, then show them how make a difference in the environment, our communities, and our economy all at the same time, and be able to offer this service for free! We even give out free kettle corn to the kids on sundays! lol Anyways, I am very excited to let people know more about what we do, and hopefully will be able to answer many questions about how I did it, how you can do it, or how you can do any of the wonderful things are staff love to talk about day to day. We live our lives in devotion to this planet, and all of the wonderful creatures living here along side us. We know people want to make a change, but sometimes it is just hard to know where to begin. What better place to start, than at home, and in your own towns and cities. Let's bring good organic farming back to this country, and put high fructose corn syrup, and Chinese imported vegetables to the side, and make a real difference together! Did you know that the average food item on your table traveled 2,200 miles to get there. How does that carbon footprint taste? Health care skyrocketing from obesity, diabetes, weight loss, heart disease, BAD EATING HABITS, because America doesn't even know what is in the food they are eating half of the time. This is something you and I can do to make a difference. Importing of food from other countries is so cheap, that they will pay for thousands of gallons of diesel fuel to get it here to stock our local grocery store. Most of the food in your grocery didn't even come from the U.S. Which means it took tons of carbon to get that food here, and yet our American farmers resort to growing corn for the refined sugar industry. It is found in every needless soft drink, complete with non-biodegradable plastic bottle, that are consumed in the hundreds of thousands a day in this country, and for what? Do we really need to drink, and eat this garbage, when it provides no nutrition, and only negatively impacts our health. Waste packaging, food importing pollution, health care failure, economic failure is all avoidable simply by growing local, buying local, thinking about what you eat, and what is really important in your life. I welcome any and all questions, and hope to share some of what we have learned along with way in the most amazing journey.. down on the farm.

the most sacred part of the theory is action.

This is where I've started.... What to do next!? I work at Starbucks and would like to switch out our cubs, etc for the sugar cane ones or something that won't decay and rot the earth but turn in to soil again..need to find more info... bummer I could only pick three..

 

I never take plastic bags
I have a low-flush toilet
Re-using
Almost 100% green home, except low-power showerheads
Any little thing I can..and trying to show others