I have always prided myself on being a frugal and thoughtful consumer, concerned about the ecological and ethical impacts of the products I buy. I pay that extra $10 a month to support green energy, use CFLs where I can, have low flow shower heads, bricks in the toilet tanks, buy earth and animal friendly cleaning products or make my own, wear my clothes until they're dead, line dry most often, use my dish and pasta water to water landscaping, shower every other day, have no ac, rarely use my gas in wall heater, bike or take public transport almost all of the time, drink tap water, buy local and organic foods to supplement those I grow in my garden, have reusable shopping bags, a reusable coffee cup, a reusable water bottle, save lidded plastic food packaging to store left overs of future meals and compost 100% of my food scraps.

....so what's with all this waste?

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Unexpected Bounty

I wasn't expecting to find such a plentiful bounty on my walk over the hill this morning.
I've done the same walk dozens of times without noticing a scrap of edible foliage, but today I totally scored!

  • a handful of fresh mint
  • two sweet little meyer lemons
  • a few fresh sprigs of creeping rosemary
  • some raw olives
  • a bunch of young wild radish greens
I'm rooting the rosemary and mint to plant on the side of my house, but the greens and lemon sound like a perfect combo for a little snack! Yum!


Check out: neighborhoodfruit.com to find the goodies in your hood.

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