by Christina Refford | Apr 21, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
With Earth Day’s 52nd anniversary this week, it’s a great time to reflect on ways we might do even more to lessen our negative impact on this place we call home. But where to start? If your family spends as much time as my family of five does thinking...
by Kate Etue | Jul 1, 2021 | Tips + Tricks
When I found out that Terracycle and Calphalon have partnered on a new, absolutely free program to recycle old cookware, bakeware, and cutlery, I immediately joined. We’ve been talking about somme of the increasingly eco-friendly changes we’ve all been...
by Christina Refford | Apr 12, 2021 | Gift Guides
A kitchen gift for Mother’s Day may once have been the purview of serious home cooks, but no longer. (Thanks, pandemic!) After 14 months of cooking breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for my family of five, I would love a Mother’s Day gift for my kitchen!...
by Christina Refford | Nov 15, 2019 | Thanksgiving, Tips + Tricks
Sandwiched between the plastic spiders and candy wrappers of Halloween and the blinking lights and tissue-stuffed gift bags of the holidays, I love that Thanksgiving offers us an opportunity to get back to basics. I’m turning my focus to family, food, and...
by Liz Gumbinner | Oct 30, 2019 | Shopping Finds
We have fully made the leap to metal straws around here, thanks to the insistence of my eco-crusader kids. Well, that and those. pesky facts about what one-time use products like straws are doing to the planet. I carry mine around with me, but still, metal has its...