Category: Low Waste
Worm Tragedy: Three reasons our vermiculture system failed
We had our first permaculture heart break. Our vermiculture system, which seemed to be doing so well, suffered a total collapse. The failure occurred when…
Mending as Mindfulness – One Way to Limit Doomscrolling
With all the terrible things going on in the world I’ve been trying to make an effort to do less doom-scrolling. I’ve been reading more…
Indoor 3 Bucket Vermiculture in 10 steps (Video)
When we moved in to our new apartment we were pretty bummed out to realize we no longer had the option of using a green…
Learning Garaetteok, or The Joy of Our Own Labour
This morning I caught up on some of my YouTube subscriptions from the past few weeks, including this video from Fairyland Cottage which is a…
Reducing Waste in a High Rise
We are currently living in a small unit in a high rise building. We are very fortunate that both our municipality and building provide recycling…
Kombucha! (Growing SCOBY and First Ferment)
So we finally did it, we finally went full crunchy and started making kombucha. There were several failed attempts at ginger beer and we’ll probably…
Growing Wheatgrass
Our first attempt at growing food in the apartment was wheatgrass, which we started on New Years Day. Wheatgrass was our first choice because: We…