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Non-Toxic Cleaning for the Home
...nscented variety, which has a green lid, is B rated, while the pink lidded baby version is A rated. Just avoid the regular, yellow lidded version, which rates an F because of the toxic fragrance ingredients in its formulation. BioKleen Oxygen Bleach Plus has an A rating, but will probably only be found in a health food store. Also try boosting your laundry with washing soda—you may find that whitens sufficiently without bleaches. Stain removers Do...
Gardening Mistake #12: The Annual That Ate Your Backyard!
...turtium. This year, though, the serial killer prize goes to our meandering squash plants, which are doing their best to cover everything in our yard less than knee high with their 15″ leaves. This morning I wanted to cut back a squash vine which had done some damage to a patch of yarrow and was reaching for my succulent zone. Erik threw his body across it and said I’d have to prune him first. As we all know, he’s a little crazy when it comes to sq...
What’s Buried in Your Backyard?
...e’s a handy page for dating bottles, scans of antique bottle catalogs, and page after page of bottle types. My unintended archaeological efforts have yielded no Spanish doubloons, viking graves or Anasazi ruins, but I have found lots of glassware, mostly broken milk bottles. I’ve also discovered what I think are cheap perfume bottles like the one above. If you know what this bottle contained please leave a comment. I suspect perfume, because this...
Zombies!
...evision viewing. What’s the cure? In short, we think it’s the exciting new urban homesteading lifestyle. What’s the strategy to overcome zombieism? We are no fan of the Unabomber, but he may be right about this one – just substitute the word “zombie” for “American” – which is perhaps redundant, anyways: . . . it would be bad strategy for the revolutionaries to condemn Americans for the habits of consumption. Instead, the average American should be...