Backstory

Hello, this website is something I’ve wanted to create for a long time, and is the culmination (so far) of my experience and reading to this point about all ways to live a healthy, sustainable lifestyle even on a low budget. In addition to being a college student, I’m also a single mom who receives no child support. Until I came back to school, I never accepted any kind of welfare and worked two jobs to provide for myself and my daughter. This experience gave me insight into how and where to spend my money for the highest quality, but most affordable items. Even pre-baby, I was interested in all things green and lived a very low impact lifestyle, but having a child upped the ante and now I’ve perfected this lifestyle to an art.

Today, my daughter and I are living on student loans, as well as a small amount of welfare, food stamps, and money from odd jobs. Various people have asked how we can afford to eat all organic, and how they can do the same. There is so much information on that subject alone that I could talk for hours and still have tons to say. The best way I could think of to convey everything I’ve learned is to create this website, and I hope it’s helpful to the many people out there who are trying to do the right thing for the planet and their health without breaking the bank.

I’m starting with food; specifically how to find and afford organic and local food, along with easy recipes and time saving tips so that you won’t spend all your free time in the kitchen. I think food is the most important place to start because it affects our entire physiology, as well as our psychology, along with the environment, the economy, and so much more. Eating is something we do several times a day, and our food choices add up to a lifestyle that can hurt or help ourselves and our entire world community. What we purchase and consume adds up to an enormous political statement; turning towards locally grown, organic food is a vote for a better present and future.

In addition to information about food, this website will be constantly expanding to include whatever I’m into at the moment to reduce, re-use and recycle in ever greater amounts. These ideas have the practical value of lowering utility bills, eliminating waste, and developing awareness about the actual amount of useless stuff we’ve come to think of as necessities. Feel free to send your ideas and suggestions, along with descriptions and pictures, I’ll try to put them up and give you credit on the page.





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