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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There really is nothing like the experience of eating something that you have just picked fresh from your own garden. More and more people like myself are returning to the joy of growing vegetables, herbs and even eggs right in their own backyards. Your home-grown veggies won’t have any nasty toxic residues on them.

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Are You Daring Enough to Use Eco-Friendly Feminine Hygiene Items?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Are you a savvy woman intent on greening your life? Do you drive a hybrid car or bypass vehicles all together and take public transportation? Do you have your house well-insulated and solar panels on your roof? Do you grow your own food in your garden and buy the rest locally from farmers?

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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We as parents are usually the first and primary source of their learned behavior, even as they grow into their teenage years. Encourage your teens and older children to walk or ride bikes to school or friends homes and other places they hang out, instead of driving or requesting a ride. Our children learn by example.

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Culling Sustenence For Less

Frugal Luxuries

very little shipping and/or storing required) it is often more nutritious due to the fact you are getting it from the farm to your table in less time. In this case, farmers will sell you a share in their produce for the growing season at a flat rate, and you’ll get a box each week with whatever is freshest on their farm.

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