Ecofrugal Living

The latest issue of the InBalance newsletter from the Center for a New American Dream contained several articles that tie in with with topi...

Last month, while paging through Better Homes and Gardens,  I came on a statistic that absolutely gobsmacked me: Americans typically spend a...

A few weeks ago, I noticed that our cat was no longer being as conscientious as she used to be about covering her "doings" after u...

Yesterday, I noted that we planted way too much basil this year and need to cut back next year. The same problem applies in spades to our S...

On Friday, like Joni Mitchell, we awoke to find the frost perched on the town. With the temperature in the house hovering around 60, we fire...

It's been nearly four weeks now since we planted grass on the bare-earth slope that we built up around the edges of our patio. At the t...

As October crept past its midpoint, I found myself starting to wonder what I could come up with for my Vegetable of the Month. I had picked ...