Tag archive for ‘trees’
Holiday Traditions – Our Favorite Spot to Cut Down the Tree
Editor’s Note: If you missed this morning’s post, we got green and shopped local with recommendations for some of the hottest natural stocking stuffers for this year. Check it out HERE. Now, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit with the fun family tradition of cutting down the Christmas tree. We have a favorite [...]
The Green Wallet – Where Money Grows On Trees
Editor’s Note: Good afternoon. If you missed this morning’s post on BC-made eco-friendly cleaning products you can read it HERE. Now we have local Investment Advisor Anthony Edwards back with more on socially responsible investments. Today he’s talking about investing in trees. Here he is:
The investment landscape of the 21st century has become increasingly inhabited [...]
Nature Journal – Leaf Watching 101
Editor’s Note: This morning we have naturalist Jocie Ingram on site, giving us the low-down on identifying leaves. Jocie is new to the OBE team and will be sharing her knowledge with us monthly. Here she is:
My toddler son is keen to collect fallen leaves, clutching fistfuls in each hand and sorting them by shape [...]
Holiday Gems for the Heart (& The Kitchen)
I like to think of our family as a crew of non-traditional traditionalists.
We love Christmas and birthdays, presents and sweets. But, in ways that present the age-old traditions of those times with a classic sense of heart, not necessarily a classic point of view.
After falling hard for Eve Bunting’s holiday gem The Night Tree this [...]
Learning Trees With Leaf Hangings
There is a bit of a chill in the air and early last week, as I was packing us into the truck, I spotted red leaves.
Then yellow, even a couple of orange beauties stood out against the bluer than blue sky.
We’d been talking, the last couple of times out in the woods, about getting to [...]
Bottle-cap Christmas Trees
Welcome to the first installment of Homespun Holidays!
Once a week for the next six weeks we’ll be offering up ways for you to build in family time, have some fun and personalize your holiday season with family-friendly crafts, eats and adventures.
Today, we start it all off with a craft favourite that I am personally quite [...]
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