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Anyone have good ideas for ways to wrap gifts which aren't as wasteful as buying sqashed dead tree with pretty pictures on? So far I've come up with: 1) No gift wrap - result: I get lynched by my more consumer relatives and my vastly disappointed kids. 2) Newspaper - result: black-handed kids on Chr...

My family do the whole big Christmas thing, even though we're not Christian - the way I see it, there's always been some sort of midwinter festival, only the name changes. What really matters is how you choose to celebrate. So, we have the tree in a pot (although we killed our last one :cry: ) cover...

Hi Husband and I are considering buying a new (as in not even built yet!) house, and while the gardens attached to these as-yet unbuilt houses are not a bad size, I'm fully expecting the ground to be utterly useless for growing anything. Considering that I'm likely to be trying to grow my carrots th...

Hi. Just found your website by chance (although I was pointed at it a while ago by Littlebluefish but I forgot). I'm the world's worst gardener, but a fair cook - I'm trying to replace all the processed junk in my family's diet with homemade stuff, and throw out all the cleaning products. The two an...