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Eco-Friendly Gardening Practices

By Tiffany 1 Comment

Gardening can be hard on the environment if you don’t know what you’re doing. This may seem seem impossible since gardening and cultivating the earth seem so earth friendly but think about the impacts of what you are doing. Are you using chemical fertilizers? Are you buying plants raised with bee killing neonicotinoid pesticides?Are you using unsustainable amounts of water?  There are eco-friendly gardening practices that you can use to lessen the impact on Mother earth. Here are easy gardening … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Bees, Chemicals, Compost, Eco Friendly, Fertilizers, garden, grey water, greywater, neonicotinoid, Pesticides, Rain Barrel, repurpose, reycled, Soil, water, Weed Control

Harvesting Greywater for Garden Usage

By Tiffany 11 Comments

One of the most cost-effective and eco-friendly things a gardener can do is recycle water for use in the garden. Harvesting greywater to water vegetable plants and trees helps them thrive during times of drought, reduces your carbon footprint on the earth and will also help to lower your household’s water expenses. What is Greywater? Greywater is water that has already been used in other household applications and gone down the drain. Water from sinks, showers, bath tubs and washing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Borax, cleaners, Dr Bronners, filter, garden, greywater, safe detergents, Shampoos, soap nuts, Soaps, Sodium, toxic, watering

The Shower Bucket – 9 Ways to Save Water

By Tiffany 7 Comments

One the the easiest places we can conserve water is in the bathroom. It only makes sense because we use lots of water there too. Baths, showers, washing faces, brushing teeth, flushing waste...we use lots of water in the loo. One very simple trick that I learned long ago from a friend though is to keep a clean bucket in the bathroom. You can use a plastic one that you already have or you can get a nice metal bucket/pail so that it looks nice when sitting out. Every morning when you turn the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Green Home Tagged With: bathroom, birdbath, conserve, grey water, greywater, Laundry, Makeup, Rain Barrel, save water, shower bucket, waste, water, Water Use

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Meet Tiffany

My name is Tiffany and I am the blogger behind Naturemoms. I live on an urban homestead in Ohio with my husband, three children, and assorted furry friends. When I am not blogging I am usually thrift store shopping, gardening, wildcrafting and food foraging, or otherwise enjoying nature. Enjoy! Read More…

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