Cultivate Simple 42: Life Without Plastic
On this weeks episode we discuss cutting down on the plastic in your life while you cut down on the ‘stuff’ in your life.
What’s For Dinner
For dinner we had Braised Red Cabbage with Sausage
Resources for Plastic Free items
Plastic Free Life
Water Bottles from Klean Kanteen
In the kitchen:
100% Unbleached All Natural Waxed Paper
100% Unbleached Silicone Parchment Paper
Bee’s Wrap
Abeego
Twist Sponges
If You Care Household Gloves Latex Cotton Flock Lined
In the Bathroom:
Merkur Model 180 Long Handled Safety Razor
Make Your Own Toothpowder, here’s one of my recipes
Plastic Manners
My Plastic Free Life
Brian’s Geeky Corner
PowerEx Charger
Eneloop Batteries
Books of the Week
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Cultivate Simple 41: Resilience
Today on the podcast we are discussing the development of resilience in your life and how it can help you prepare for hard times but also give your opportunities and choices in the good.
Brian’s Geeky Corner
Gain back some of the time you are losing by tracking where you spend your time on your computer.
Time Track Pro – Mac
Personal Activity Monitor – PC
Rescue Time – Both
Topic: Resilience
Resilience noun \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
Things that help build resilience:
- Change your Mindset
- Build Community
- Become Debt Free
- Starting a Side Business
- Grow Food
- Learn New Skills
Book of the Week
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Cultivate Simple 40: Stew 3.0
This week we’re answering reader questions and give an update about what’s going on around the run.
BACKUP is the word of the day. Use Dropbox for backup.
Dropbox – Get Susy some bonus space
- Keep files in sync on multiple computers (home to work)
- Backup files to the cloud
- Share folders and files (even large files)
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Cultivate Simple 39: Keep It Seasonal
Today we’re talking about living seasonally, particularly when it comes to the food on your plate.
Even in the dead of winter, the products of our labor were good. From the freezer we could choose broccoli or cauliflower, peas or beans or corn, anytime we pleased. In spring, we often had them all together in orgies of vegetable soups meant to clear the freezer for the next round. Though certainly we were well-fed, and spiritually content at living from our own labors, the broccoli, peas, beans, cauliflower, and corn came to have a certain sameness about them, a predictable ready-on-demand sort of quality that robbed us of much of the joy of them. The seasons were all flattened out, and one sitting to the table came to seem just like another.
Joe Eck & Wayne Winterrowd from Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill
What is your favorite season of eating and why?
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Cultivate Simple 38: Hog Heaven
On this weeks episode we are discussing pigs and why you should think about getting one.
Susy’s Geeky Corner
Start decluttering your mailbox with CatalogChoice.org.
The Permaculture Podcast – Josh Trought and D Acres – This is where we got our pigs from. In the last 10 minutes of the interview he talks about how they use pigs on their farm.
Premier 1 Supplies – Pig Quick Fence
Books of the Week
What is your favorite cut of pork?
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