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When we’re at home, we tend to drink out of glass bottles.  I hate drinking from plastic and until we get around to purchasing a home water carbonation kit (we have our eye on one that a friend has recommended), we continue to buy a lot of Perrier in glass bottles.  So, used Perrier bottles [...]

Organic food doesn’t need to have more nutritional value than conventional food. Less toxicity helps more than enough!

OK, so enough people have been asking me, “How’s the PEI diet going?” that I should probably publicly reiterate, we’re in the very preliminary stages of evaluating the diet, not going whole hog, so to speak. I describe our current eating style as the, “Oh hey, if we were only eating PEI food, this would [...]

We’ve been watching the series 100 Mile Challenge on the Food Network and of course, we’ve always tried to eat as much local food as we can.  Remember how we decided to take on a raw food diet a couple of years ago?  (Of course, we were assisted by the fact that our oven was [...]

Not to say that we didn’t research the move to Summerside fully before taking the plunge, but now that we’ve decided to go for it, here’s just some of what else we’ve learned about our new town that makes us super excited to move: Island Fair Trade Coffee Co. – On the off chance we [...]

One of the primary factors behind our move was the environment — both the environment that we all share, and the environment within our living quarters. When we began the plans for our home renovation we wanted to incorporate sustainable, renewable materials so as not to burden the environment non-toxic/allergenic substances for air quality and [...]