By Amanda Rose | Natural Home
Fellow droughters! It’s getting real out there. Joyce asked, “How do you live with this mellow yellow policy?” I laughed until I cried. Do you know this toilet-flushing policy? If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down. It is a very difficult strategy to live with. Check out how I live […]
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We are living right here in the belly of the beast and there probably isn’t a topic more discussed right now than this one, particularly with daily speculation about the likelihood and size of El Nino, the storm front that could provide some drought relief in the winter of 2015-16. Things are so dry here […]
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I know that none of you guys have a toilet ring as bad as the one in the video and I am sure that I let this go for five years (or 50) just so that I could show you how effective this treatment is. Yes, this neglected toilet looks like a completely different toilet […]
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By Amanda Rose | Natural Home
Amanda’s note: Here is another wonderful contribution from Ramya Venkateshwaran who writes from her home in India. Ramya describes her method for making a fume-free alternative to chlorine bleach. Find her on her website WildTurmeric.net for more ideas on healthy living. ~~~I have long been trying to make my own homemade bleach that is as […]
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Living in the Sequoia National Forest, we have had times of year in which we’ve woken up and found the kitchen completely taken over by ants. One tiny speck of strawberry left on the island was a magnet to a veritable legion of little black insects. Our family room, too, was ridiculous, especially during Alastair’s […]
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By Amanda Rose | Natural Home
I love the concept of air fresheners but one short walk through the drug store aisle dedicated to them is enough to send me packing. Really, there is such a thing as “too much fragrance.” One of the things my boys and I love to do here is to capture the fragrance of the forest […]
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