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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

It may be too late to join up this year, but it’s never too late to get to know your local farmers, and when sign up time rolls around in the spring, you’ll be on a first-name basis with them. Unlike grain and corn feed, grass requires no fossil fuel for transport. The regrowth of grazed grass removes carbon monoxide from the air.

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