Although I’m a few days late with this, I’d still like to share with you that last week was Orangutan Caring Week.
Homemade Wheat Thins + Palm Oil PSA
Tag Archives: Environment
To Love This Land
Throughout my life, I’ve heard people complain countless times about the region of the world that I live in — it’s too cold, the economy is not good enough, there’s not enough city life, it snows too much, it’s too humid in the summer, it’s too on and on and on… Continue reading
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A Night in the Dark & Echinacea Tincture
Hello Light Footsteppers!
I think today is another hodgepodge of a post for me. It seems that I have been busy, busy lately. All good things — friends visiting the states from South America, a conference, event planning, trying to continue a regular habit of eating well and taking walks in nature. It’s all left me with a lot of ideas for what I imagine to be profound posts, but time slips away quickly and then I wonder if it’s all still relevant. Continue reading
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Homestead Highlight on Backyard Farming Connection
Interested in learning a little more about me, how I got started with backyard farming, and why I think it’s so important to live this way? Continue reading
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Slippery Elm Balls for Digestive Distress
Medicine doesn’t have to taste gross or be filled with ingredients that a normal human cannot pronounce (let alone comprehend where they came from!). In fact, one of our first lines of medical help can be in the form of healing, all-natural products from plants we can identify outdoors that are made in our own kitchens with ingredients we trust. This is herbal medicine. It is people’s medicine.
The following recipe is for a fun, easy to make, and even easier to eat herbal ball that helps to calm digestive issues. Eat too much? Have heartburn? Feeling a general sense of malaise in your digestive region? Give a slippery elm ball a try! Continue reading
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A Hike to Blue Hen Falls Set to Emerson
We took a walk along part of the Buckeye trail (a trail that if taken in its entirety circles around all of Ohio) in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to enjoy the autumn colors and find Blue Hen Falls.
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Why Bats are Awesome + Bat Crafts
I’ve never quite understood some people’s revulsion toward bats. Recently someone told me, “I understand bats are important for the environment, but they just aren’t very attractive.” Continue reading
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The Fall Garden and Her Vegetable Soup
The peak of gardening has passed, but there are still plenty of things to be seen, done, and harvested this time of year.
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Straw Bale House in the City
Humans have been creating homes out of the Earth for as long as we’ve existed. It’s only recently that we’ve been building structures out of synthetic materials that may emit hazardous chemicals into our living spaces, and have consistently increased the size of the homes that we live in so that we must import materials from other regions and use massive amounts of fossil fuels in their construction. Continue reading
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Acorn Garland
When fall comes, I feel an urge to pepper the house with decorations. Pumpkins and hay bales are nice, but so many indoor decorations are cheaply made knickknacks from another country where you can bet the standard of worker care isn’t what it should be. (Not to mention the carbon footprint of toting all that plastic stuff halfway around the world!) Continue reading
These Light Footsteps 
