A hat that lasts! Really lasts…
3 Tetra Paks (2 Soup, 1 Milk)
3 Cheese Films
2 Feminine Product Package
2 Pillowfill Bags
2 Bread Bags
2 Pill Cases
Ziplock (Gallon)
Phyllo Dough Film
Toaster Oven Film
Toaster Oven Styrofoam
Pasta Package
Tempeh Package
Pita Chip Bag
Method Dish Soap Container
Frozen Fruit Bag
Paper Towel Film
Earth Balance Container
Can of Pumpkin
Corn Tortilla Package
Hard Shell Plastic for Watch
Energy Bar Wrapper
Dry Erase Marker Package
Vegetable Tie
Busted Hair Elastic
Packaging Tape
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Today marks the end of the first month of plastic collection, and how much we have learned already! It is easy to have our daily habits and actions go unnoticed, but much can be learned when we start to quantify our activity.
This past week continues our developing trends: TetraPaks, bread, cheese, and a variety of other food product waste. Oh food, you vital and wonderful, essential and beautiful thing! If only to find you in your natural state each day of my life, what joys would follow.
Speaking of the joys of food, Kim and I have begun to plan our foray into an in depth gardening experience this upcoming season. With the stunning growth of urban farming and the explosion of small space gardening, the amount of resources for those entering into a deeper connection with food becomes ever more available. We recently picked up a copy of Urban Farm and seeded a vast array of fresh ideas about how to get started and shared a plentitude of stories about urban farmers in action. We’ll tell you this: We’re pumped! Prepare to see our posts this upcoming spring and summer overflow with pictures, pains and the unrivaled joy of growing your own food — and in a sense growing your very self!
Ah but yes, plastics — they still don’t plan to leave, do they? I must share with you now a photo of a month’s worth of plastics, spread upon the floor:
Multiply that by twelve and you can imagine how much floor space this plastic is going to take up! The largest plastics in our month’s collection were toaster oven packaging and the comforter/comforter cover packaging. Otherwise, it is almost all food plastic! I am excited to see what sort of reduction will take place this spring and summer when we start not only making our own food, but having access to the vast array of farm fresh produce blooming from the Earth. Huzzah!
That’s so exciting! At my new place in Townsville, we have a tiny backyard space. I’d love to hear some of your favorite and easy things to grow, so maybe I can start to do the same! Can’t wait to hear about the progress you make with your own urban farm!
Yay! We are super excited! Right now we are perusing seed catalogs. We are going to try carrots for the first time this year, we found out you can grow them in deep containers right on your porch! You can start looking at how much sun your yard gets, veggies like a lot of sun so you want to place them in the sunniest spots :O)