My Victory Garden

My victory garden was a small bust this year... the heat really got to it.  I was only able to harvest the following:

2 heirloom tomatos
5 yellow wax beans
and about 1 cup of lettuce

maybe next year will be better, I think I am going to use containers so that I can move them easily due to heat or freeze.

How is yorur garden doing????  Send me some pics on twitter at www.Twitter.com/TeeJayToday

Urban Wildlife

If you look hard enough, you can find reasons to help save the environment everywhere.  Here is one little reason that we found in the back yard.

Natural Beauty Products

Natural products for your skin is a given, why would you want to apply something that is a known to contain petroleum products to your skin? Your skin is the largest organ on/in your body.

I had the chance to review Nardo's Natural Products: Watch the following video I made! In the comments section below, let me know what products you use and if you plan on using Nardo's.

Victory Garden

It has been said that a 10x10 victory garden can save the average person $700 per year in food costs.... to test this and to create an organic garden, I am creating a video on how to do one easily at home... Check back next week for the how to video!

Another Video on Making Paper at Home.

E-Waste

What are you doing with all of your electronics that are outdated? Did you know that many of them have hazardous metals and gases in them that can contaminate the water shed?

Most towns have a place to drop of e-waste and with the price of gold, silver, and platinum so high, some companies in larger cities will even buy your old stuff to melt it down for the precious metals! (YAY! recycling)

Some big box retailers will even recycle old computers and phones for you, if it is a newer phone or music device, ebay and gazelle.com will buy them from you and pay for shipping to get it!

Also, that ink printer cartridge that you just replaced will be taken by the larger office supply stores, where they will refill them and they usually give you a discount on a new one with trade-in!

Old computer monitors make great fish tanks too!

Aluminum Cans VS Plastic Bottles

The next time that you head to the grocery store to pick up your favorite soft drink...think about their packaging.

It takes up to 400 years for both a plastic bottle and an aluminum can to fully decompose.

A plastic bottle requires more oil to produce than an aluminum can.

About 10% of all plastic bottles are recycled while about 50% off all aluminum cans are recycled.

Plastic bottles are resealable and have other uses.

Cans do not contain BPA which may link to increases chances of Cancer.

There are a few interesting tidbits for you....In my opinion, Cans are the way to go...They are easier to recycle and you get paid for them if you take them to a recycling center!