Grow your own food.
Live green, be eco friendly and save the 🌎
Esbenshades Garden Center Plants Review – Online Store
This review is for the online ordering portion of Esbenshades Garden Center Plants. I've ordered plants on line before, from an Indian rope plant to a Pilea peperomioides that now looks like it's taken over the window shelf. Both came packaged exceptionally well, and...
Three New Reasons to Join a CSA this Summer.
We’re really excited to join a CSA this summer. Our first CSA delivery won’t be ready for another few weeks and already we can’t wait to taste our seasonal goodies. If you’re not familiar with the concept, here’s a brief overview of the what and why of joining a CSA....
There’s something rotten with our food – dietary illness.
Why is dietary illness so prevalent in the U.S.? Let me preface this by saying that this is entirely based off of my own experiences, and a number of assumptions here will lack the data I would normally want to have back up my arguments, but with a lack of it, I can...
3 Little Things you Can do to Help Save the Oceans.
The oceans are getting warmer, and this is causing coral reef bleaching, disease, marine dead zones that lack any trace of oxygen and are impossible for marine life to live in. There's also the plastic issue that gets a lot of attention due to its unsightly nature....
Simply Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change. We Need to do More.
Many people think that planting trees can stop climate change, but the truth is this isn't enough. It is an overly simplistic approach to a carbon dioxide abatement problem that is inherently much more complex. To mitigate climate change, we have to look at the...
Hamama Greens Grow Kit Review
For part one, (the ordering experience) head over here. Otherwise, continue reading. Hamama Greens is Based out of SF and they produce home grow kits for microgreens. When writing this review I reached out to them via their website, and Camille, one of the founders...
Indoor Gardening Product Ordered, Hamama Greens Preview
Let's start off with this Hamama Greens has a pretty great mission which we align with here, they "want to help create a world where anyone can grow and eat fresh food as a part of a healthy lifestyle routine." Right on! As someone who believes accessibility to fresh...
How to go zero waste?
Let’s start with the basic facts, going zero waste is not easy. Especially if you live in any kind of urban or suburban environment where single-use plastic items are next to impossible not to consume. Think about it, every trip to the supermarket results in you...
We fix a dish rack! Being sustainable by fixing household items.
One of my big pet peeves about the way our culture has developed is that when something breaks, we just throw it out, and get something new. We constantly buy, upgrade, and consume. So when a wooden dish rack we've had for ~3 years broke, we could have chucked it and...
Ditch The Dirt Book Review
A pretty unbiased Ditch the Dirt Book Review. A while ago I ordered the new book from titled Ditch The Dirt, written by Rob Laing, CEO of Farm.One which is also based here in New York. I'd heard about what they're doing a while back through some friends in...
Click and Grow Smart Garden 9 Review – 6 Months
Over 6 months ago, I ordered a Click and Grow Smart Garden 9 for reviewing it on this site, and to grow some fresh greens at home. When we first reviewed the product after 2 months and we thought it was pretty good. After tinkering with it, I do think it requires a...
Why are peat bogs important? And why we should stop using peat.
Why are peat bogs important? Let's start off with some facts. Peat bogs are a massive carbon sink and aid in the storage of carbon, containing more locked away carbon that the world's forests. Peat covers...
Apartment Farming: Experimenting with Growing Kale Indoors
Apartment Farming. Growing indoors in an apartment, is growing in sub-optimal conditions. Commercial vertical farms crate optimal conditions for growth. They cool or heat their grow areas provide optimal nutrient delivery and lighting for whatever green it is they're...
Building a LED Lit Grow Shelf to Maximize Grow Room
Turns out we had a need to put together a LED grow shelf. Here's how we did it. Would love feedback and comments. Growing edible plants indoors, on shelves, with LED lights, means you need space, but how much space is enough? Micro-greens are easy because you can...
Two months in with the Click and Grow, here’s our review. (Updated).
We've had the Click & Grow Smart Garden 9 Click and Grow for about two months now. It's given us two small lettuces, and we have been picking here and there at mustard greens, basil, and parsley. Two months in I think we have a pretty decent understanding of the...
Why is Home Grown Food Important?
Why is home grown food important? Why is growing food at home something that - for us - should be embraced in every household? The answer is complex and involves a number of factors. Nutrition, eating better, fresher, and healthy, it's understanding to respect the...
Sardine Parsley Pasta | Eat Cheap and Healthy
Eating good healthy food can be tough especially when you're trying to stick to a tight budget. This Sardine Parsley Pasta recipe is quick, loaded with Omega3's, quick to put together and quite frankly delicious. If you're concerned about the origin of your food or...
