Welcome to Eco-Friendly Friday’s post! If you are a regular here at my blog, you know I love to spotlight companies and products that strive to be environmentally conscious. Today I am happy to tell you more about SunRidge Farms Organic & Natural Foods. Among many other Eco-friendly practices, they use solar power in their facilities, drive biodiesel trucks and hybrid vehicles, offer recycling education classes, use green cleaning products, ...
Going Green
Eco-friendly Easter Basket Items For Kids
Even though I’m not a 100% Green products-only-at-my-house type of mom, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of ideas for an Eco-Friendly Easter Basket. Here are some of my top picks for a Green Easter Basket to help those of us who want to add a little Green to our children's baskets this year. I’m posting this a few weeks ahead of time since some of these items can be found more easily online than in stores – and I want you to ...
How To Creatively Recycle Your Crayons
Don’t toss out your broken, stubby crayons! There is an easy way to make old crayons into brand new ones that your children will want to color with once again – and I’m going to tell you how to do it. What You’ll Need: Silicone molds (make sure they are oven safe to at least 200 degrees) Crayons – peel off the wrapper. TIP: Use an Exacto knife to cut down the seam of the crayon and the paper should easily remove itself. Directions: ...
Make Your Own Bubbles Solution: 2 Simple Recipes
My kids will spend hours outside blowing bubbles in the summertime. Although bubble solutions can be fairly cheap to buy, when you go through gallons of it like we do every summer, it can add up. (If your children are like mine, we have frequent “accidents” where entire bottles have been lost in a single spill!) Did you know you can make your own bubbles solution? However, all bubbles solution recipes are not created equally. Believe me, I ...
itti bitti Cloth Diaper Review & #Giveaway!
The itti bitti cloth diaper company has been around for awhile now in other parts of the world, and finally debuted in the United States in March 2011 to rave reviews and lots of excited cloth diapering families who have been waiting a long time to try their first itti bitti cloth diaper. I am one lucky mama who has recently been given the opportunity to try 2 different styles of itti bitti diapers on my 17 month old son. We were sent the ...
Planning Your Garden? Get $75 worth of Organic seeds for $5 shipped
Seeds of Change is giving away 100 million of their certified organic seeds to inspire people and communities to grow organic gardens. Simply SIGN UP HERE for your $75 worth of organic seeds (25 packets) and pay only $4.99 shipping. Organizations can sign up for up to 100 packets of organic seeds (~$300 value) and pay $14.99 shipping. Your seeds should arrive in 2-6 weeks. Thanks, Money Saving Momma ...
The Green Mother Goose: Saving The World One Rhyme at a Time (Book Review)
The traditional Mother Goose rhymes have gone green! My children love for me to read and recite Mother Goose rhymes, and in this book, our favorite characters teach us things we can do to take care of our Earth. For example, Old Mother Hubbard uses cloth shopping bags, Little Jack Horner changes lightbulbs in the corner – to compact fluorescents, and in the green version of “This Little Piggy,” the last little piggy squeals, “Re-re-recycle!” ...
#Win ecomom’s $75,000 Healthy Home Makeover Contest
Today is the starting date of ecomom's $75,000 Healthy Home Makeover Contest! From now until April 24, 2011 at 11:59pm PST, you can ENTER HERE at the contest page for your chance to be a winner! You can also enter by clicking on the ecomom contest button/icon on my sidebar. HERE'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO ENTER (It will take a little bit of planning and a Facebook account, but it is not difficult) *Upload a picture of your family and tell ...
Worldwide Earth Hour is Tonight! 8:30pm
Join people around the globe in celebrating Earth Hour tonight, Saturday, March 26 at 8:30pm by turning out your lights. Click here to go to the Earth Hour website, where you can learn more about what you can do to go "Beyond the Hour" to help our Earth and submit your actions (even include photos and videos!) to share with the whole world! Here's a very simple way I plan to go "Beyond the Hour" today and maybe you can too: I'm heading out ...
