I recently found this blog - The Ironic Catholic
This is my favorite post...
It makes me wanna say "Can't we all just get along?"
The Ironic Catholic: Conservative and Liberal Catholic Etiquette Tips Provided
My favorite is the one about music... :)
Monday, June 2, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Making a Compost Bin
Hi all! Sorry for delays. If you would like to make a compost bin on Friday at the Crap Swap, be sure to bring the following.
1 plastic/rubber storage bin (you choose the size based on what you think your composting needs are. Mine is probably a 10-gallon)
1 plastic/rubber storage bin (you choose the size based on what you think your composting needs are. Mine is probably a 10-gallon)
One old newspaper (I have some if you don't)
Sand and/or dirt like you'd use for gardening/potting (let me know if you have some you can share. Otherwise I will make a trip to the store.)
Don't worry about the worms; I'll make Ryan buy us some...I don't go into bait shops. Ever.
That's all we need! See you Friday!
What's your greendex?
I subscribe to the National Geographic Magazines Green Guide, it offers fabulous information about Green living. There are a few quizzes that you can take in this months issue:
http://event.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/index.html
At the bottom of the page you will see a box - you can calculate your greendex and test your environmental savvy...
Good Luck!
erin h
http://event.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/index.html
At the bottom of the page you will see a box - you can calculate your greendex and test your environmental savvy...
Good Luck!
erin h
Thursday, April 17, 2008
A fresh-food opporunity from Schlafly and Fair Shares' CSA:
From Schlafly Bottleworks (they do great things, support them if you can):
We'd like to take a moment to tell you about Fair Shares, a combined CSA*!
Would you like to support local, but don't have the means to do so easily? Do you have difficulty getting to farmers' markets? Are you interested in learning how to cook seasonally, thereby eating the best-tasting, most nutritious food available? Fair Shares is a non-profit organization dedicated to getting fresh, local, seasonal food into the hands of more St. Louisans--regardless of their income.
Fair Shares is working with local farmers and producers to form a Combined CSA* (CCSA). Each week, they'll collect, organize and distribute a well-rounded example of the freshest, seasonal, sustainably-produced foods available in St. Louis all year long. Members of Fair Shares will receive bios on all the farmers and producers we feature, plus menu ideas, recipes, and storage and preparation tips each week. There are still spaces left for this season!
Fair Shares was created in 2007 by sisters Sara Hale and Jamie Choler. (Sara has been a tremendous employee at Schlafly Beer for more than 15 years). Because Sara and Jamie believe eating healthy food should be a universal right, not an elite privilege, Fair Shares was organized as a nonprofit in the hopes of finding grants and holding fundraisers to help them reach their goal of making local, seasonal foods more accessible to all.
*Community Supported Agriculture is a partnership between consumers interested in safe, fresh, local foods and farmers interested in a stable market for their products. Consumers pledge to support the farms as co-producers, sharing in the bounty and the risks of farming, including poor harvests due to pests or weather conditions.
Please visit the Fair Shares website at www.fairshares.org and get all the details about this wonderful organization!
We'd like to take a moment to tell you about Fair Shares, a combined CSA*!
Would you like to support local, but don't have the means to do so easily? Do you have difficulty getting to farmers' markets? Are you interested in learning how to cook seasonally, thereby eating the best-tasting, most nutritious food available? Fair Shares is a non-profit organization dedicated to getting fresh, local, seasonal food into the hands of more St. Louisans--regardless of their income.
Fair Shares is working with local farmers and producers to form a Combined CSA* (CCSA). Each week, they'll collect, organize and distribute a well-rounded example of the freshest, seasonal, sustainably-produced foods available in St. Louis all year long. Members of Fair Shares will receive bios on all the farmers and producers we feature, plus menu ideas, recipes, and storage and preparation tips each week. There are still spaces left for this season!
Fair Shares was created in 2007 by sisters Sara Hale and Jamie Choler. (Sara has been a tremendous employee at Schlafly Beer for more than 15 years). Because Sara and Jamie believe eating healthy food should be a universal right, not an elite privilege, Fair Shares was organized as a nonprofit in the hopes of finding grants and holding fundraisers to help them reach their goal of making local, seasonal foods more accessible to all.
*Community Supported Agriculture is a partnership between consumers interested in safe, fresh, local foods and farmers interested in a stable market for their products. Consumers pledge to support the farms as co-producers, sharing in the bounty and the risks of farming, including poor harvests due to pests or weather conditions.
Please visit the Fair Shares website at www.fairshares.org and get all the details about this wonderful organization!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Slow Food
Hi friends,
Just wanted to let you know about Slow Food St Louis. This is the local chapter for the international movement. Their link is on the sidebar to the right and I highly encourage you to check them out. Why? Because you eat food! And hopefully you like it healthy and fresh, responsibly grown. AND hopefully you care about the people who grow it, because they're good folks who deserve our spending dollars (instead of McDonald's). I joined their yahoo! groups mailing list, and I attended the monthly meeting last night. Slow Food has creative, dynamic people from the area contributing a lot of knowledge, passion and energy. Be sure to take a look at their events (Convivial Pursuit Trivia Night! The Art of Food!! Feast in the Fields!!!).
Since our meeting was at Schlafly Bottlewords, I'm also reminded that there is a backyard gardening workshop being offered at Schlafly on Mar. 29. I'm going and I think Donna's going to go, so be sure to sign up if you're interested. We're thinking of making a summer vegetable swap an additional component of the Crap Swap. If each of us grows one, two or three veggie plants, we can share the work AND the harvest. Let me know if you're interested in that, too.
Ciao bellas.
Just wanted to let you know about Slow Food St Louis. This is the local chapter for the international movement. Their link is on the sidebar to the right and I highly encourage you to check them out. Why? Because you eat food! And hopefully you like it healthy and fresh, responsibly grown. AND hopefully you care about the people who grow it, because they're good folks who deserve our spending dollars (instead of McDonald's). I joined their yahoo! groups mailing list, and I attended the monthly meeting last night. Slow Food has creative, dynamic people from the area contributing a lot of knowledge, passion and energy. Be sure to take a look at their events (Convivial Pursuit Trivia Night! The Art of Food!! Feast in the Fields!!!).
Since our meeting was at Schlafly Bottlewords, I'm also reminded that there is a backyard gardening workshop being offered at Schlafly on Mar. 29. I'm going and I think Donna's going to go, so be sure to sign up if you're interested. We're thinking of making a summer vegetable swap an additional component of the Crap Swap. If each of us grows one, two or three veggie plants, we can share the work AND the harvest. Let me know if you're interested in that, too.
Ciao bellas.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Does anyone have?
...sunglasses they don't wear? I (almost) don't even care what they look like, just need some cornea-saving shades. Lemmeknowthanks!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
First Crap Swap a Success!
Hopefully everyone who made it to the Crap Swap had a good time and is happy with their stuff. I know I am! I think everything I got was worthwhile...an item I'd thought about buying, and a couple things that I know I would impulse-buy elsewhere (like candle paraphernalia). [PS-By the time I got home, I only had one candle holder left intact. Oh well.]
I'd be happy to host the next one. Pre-planning to have people over might motivate me to actually go through my as yet packed boxes, and I promise to get materials ready for a composting party! Till then, each person should save at least two newspapers, and buy (or find) herself a rubber storage box (of a size that seems appropriate for her compost needs; mine is probably 14Wx20Lx16H").
Maybe we can try and get together again in a month, and if we don't have enough stuff to warrant a swap, maybe we can just incorporate mini-swaps with poker nights/bingo. Feel free to share what you think in the "comments" section!
I'd be happy to host the next one. Pre-planning to have people over might motivate me to actually go through my as yet packed boxes, and I promise to get materials ready for a composting party! Till then, each person should save at least two newspapers, and buy (or find) herself a rubber storage box (of a size that seems appropriate for her compost needs; mine is probably 14Wx20Lx16H").
Maybe we can try and get together again in a month, and if we don't have enough stuff to warrant a swap, maybe we can just incorporate mini-swaps with poker nights/bingo. Feel free to share what you think in the "comments" section!
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