by emily on December 10, 2011
Welcome back to another episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast! Today I won’t be focusing on one particular topic. I will camp around our homestead update for a few minutes, but the bulk of this show is going to be “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” What will I be telling about? The joy of [...]
by emily on December 8, 2011
Why green cleaning? Are conventional cleaners really that bad? Well, let me ask you this question: Say you have a three-year-old who wants to help you clean the toilet. Would you let him or her do it with the toilet bowl cleaner you have on hand? No? Well, why not? Chances are, you don’t have [...]
by emily on November 12, 2011
Is there an eco-friendly laundry solution that really gets things clean? Tune in to hear my journey, as well as my opinion on the subject. This episode includes a surprising admission and confession from The Crunchy Coach.
by emily on October 29, 2011
Do you live in a green house? Wish that you did? Me, too! And Jerry, Benjamin and I will eventually. So to find out what truly constitutes “green”, I’ve done a lot of digging in the area of alternative building during the past year or so. This Weird Is Great episode is a culmination of [...]
by emily on October 19, 2011
Okay, so I don’t exactly reveal every single personal detail of my life in this episode. But I do begin a new segment for the Weird Is Great podcast entitled, “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” And in the main section I explain why I live the lifestyle that I do. So, why do I live [...]
by emily on October 8, 2011
What questions should you ask when buying land? Particularly, raw land? If you listened to the last episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast, you heard about how our dream is beginning to come alive: we are about to purchase five acres of raw land in the beautiful mountains of Southeast Oklahoma. Talk about healthy [...]
by emily on October 5, 2011
The title says it all. To get all the details, tune in to this week’s “Weird Is Great” episode!
by emily on September 27, 2011
Because certain folks have gone overboard about the environment, caring more for the plight of arctic seals than the plight of unborn babies, certain other folks have leaned completely the other direction, claiming that anyone who cares about environmental isues is “evil” or “ungodly” or (gonna be Southern here for a moment) “out of their [...]
by emily on September 6, 2011
When you first set out to start your first vegetable garden, you don’t necessarily realize all the potential problems you may run into. The gardening how-to is pretty cut-and-dry in the books you read, but most authors don’t emphasize what mistakes could mean the difference between having a garden forever and giving up after the [...]
by emily on August 15, 2011
Today’s post is part of The Healthy Home Economist’s blog carnival. Watch out when you learn how to start an organic vegetable garden – next thing you know, you will be building your own solar panels and drooling over wood stoves in Lehman’s catalog . Well, maybe not, but that little taste of self-sufficiency might [...]