Elements Naturals local T.V. spot
I’d like to share a video segment which aired last night on our local television station KTVZ.
Watch and enjoy! Pretty cool stuff!!!
“Feed the Wigglers” campaign! 11/1-5
The dop off has begun! Please donate your Halloween pumpkin to “Feed the Wigglers” campaign!
This is our second year collecting pumpkins from local friends and businesses! I have already picked up 5 really wicked pumpkins from Mother’s Juice Cafe. Thanks so much for your donation. My Red Wigglers are very thankful for their delicious treat! Leave me a comment and I’ll give you directions!
Happy Halloween!
BOO! Happy Halloween!
Have I told you lately how Red Wigglers love pumpkins? Give them a delicious post Halloween treat tomorrow. There’s no need to slice and dice. You can quarter the pumpkin or put it in whole. You’ll be amazed at how quickly they will devour it. They’ll stop feasting on the scraps in the bin and migrate to the pumpkin.
If you don’t have a worm bin or compost pile and you live in Bend, give them to me. My Red Wigglers would be delighted. Leave me a comment and we can set something up!
Don’t throw your batteries in the trash!
This is the aftermath of fun times! A pile of dead batteries that once gave life to wireless video game controllers and wireless mice now sit on the kitchen table. As you can see, we are not loyal to one brand. We grab what is on sale and also have a few rechargeable batteries. Unfortunately, we don’t have many charging stations to satisfy our immediate need when one battery dies, especially during an epic battle in Halo! (a really cool game by the way. I admit. I have joined in on a few matches, getting my booty whipped and laughing as it’s happening) So, we resort to buying mass quantities of AA batteries.
Just last year, I would toss these into the trash not even giving it a second thought. Now running a composting business, I TRY my best to watch what is heading to the landfill. Realizing we can’t feed batteries to the Red Wigglers, we bagged them under the kitchen sink next to the other recycling containers. Yesterday the bag was about to bust so I called the landfill to see if they could be put at the curb for pickup. Nope, they have to be dropped at the Hazardous Waste Building, an annex next to the Recycling Center.
Before taking them, I dumped them onto the table to get a picture for my post. I couldn’t believe how many we bought over the past year!
Yuck! I really wish I put something on the table before I dumped them. This battery was already leaking the bad stuff! What it is….. I don’t really know to be honest with ya! I just have a feeling it can’t be good because my hair had a run in with a dead car battery that was stored in the back of my trunk when I skipped high school! ‘nough said!
Bottom Line: Bring your batteries to the Hazardous Waste Department (just that name let’s me know…the things inside the batteries are not good for the planet!)
The Red Wigglers will devour a few non food items, like coffee grounds and filters, newspapers, eggshells, toilet paper rolls, and compostable baby wipes, but they will not munch on batteries! Who would blame them?
Wonder Worman Sewed! Really, I did!
For the past 3 months in the Wonder Worman household, we have been been using cloth napkins and rags instead of paper towels and paper napkins. I wanted to think of another way to cut back on the amount of trash we were contributing to the landfill. Composting the food waste with the Red Wigglers is going well. I have occasionally thrown in some napkins from dinner but never those with cleaning residue so I decided to use the cloth solution.
We already had a stash of cloth napkins given to us as gifts for the holidays, house warming, and Cinco de Mayo (My favorite time of the year!!). We also had a variety of rags from old towels and t-shirts. I thought I was set and didn’t need to purchase any more. Well, that changed this week. I started thinking about how I had increased the amount of laundry loads. Now, I was worried about the water and energy being used to keep these clean! I was determined to find a solution to increase our supply of napkins therefore decreasing the amount of times the napkins and rags needed to be washed. So, I decided to make my own napkins. We have a beautiful sewing machine that was given to Little a for Christmas. She uses it often to create pillows and “fun stuff”. Now, it was my turn to make some napkins. For those of you that know me, I AM NOT a person that sews, but I was determined to give it a try for the sake of the planet! I did some on line searching and found a cool site! Link is below.
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| I picked this fallish fabric! |
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| Set the template on the backside of the fabric and traced with a pencil. I don’t own fabric chalk?! what is that any way?? |
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| Fabric cut in squares. I would’ve called it done but knew the sides would fray. |
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| Finished! I used Little a’s orange thread! Thought the contrast was cool. Plus, it was already set up on the machine, and I have trouble rethreading the bobbin and then threading the needle and all of that sewing stuff that you have to do on the machine! |
Here’s the link (click here) to the site where I found the set of instructions. Really quick and easy! Next set of napkins will be made from Max’s too small oxford shirts! Recycling our clothes will be fun and will give us something to talk about when friends and family come over. Don’t worry, I won’t use our underwear!
