Do you have an ongoing collection of dryer lint *because it might be useful at some point*? Are you in the mood for a summer DI|Y project, the results of which will be unsubstantiable for months? Boy, have I got the zero-waste craft project for you! Okay so I’ll admit…
Category: Zero-Waste
It’s Elderflower Season! – DIY Elderflower Cordial
It’s June, it’s sunny, it’s time for some syrupy goodness! Last week I made my first batch of elderflower cordial; I jumped the gun a bit and went a bit too early so I could only get enough flowers to make a half batch, but now the elderflowers are in…
Forage: Wild Garlic Pesto
The Wild Garlic is out! Foraging is so immensely satisfying, it’s impossible to forage for ingredients and not come away feeling at one with nature. The combination of interacting with nature in a very tangible way, living in tandem with the seasons and getting stuff for free is a real…
Zero-Waste Popcorn
Popcorn is fabulous, popcorn is amazing – without a cinema trip in the near future I find myself craving cinema popcorn more and more every day. One of the highlights of 2020 was my cinema trip to see Tenet during the small reprieve of restrictions in the summer, being able…
Staying Eco-conscious during the Lockdown
The pandemic is the Worst, we all know that. Afraid of going to the shops more than absolutely necessary and trying to minimise all contact with the outside world, my family have been getting grocery deliveries and click and collect from SuperValu over the last few months. A great service…
Zero-waste Fail: Fatballs for Garden Birds
Thought I’d be productive this morning so I took the block of lard out of the fridge and started making fat balls for the birds in our garden. During the pandemic, we’ve been getting a lot of grocery deliveries from SuperValu and sometimes they substitute items if they don’t have…
Repair, Not Replace: Bunbury the Trusty Robin/Doorstop
A number of years ago my family were given a lovely doorstop in the shape of a robin – it was made of felt, with a heavy beanbag in the bottom to give it weight. Originally inteded as a piece of Christmas home decor, we just kept him out all…
Zero-Waste: Refill Ink Pens
Bottles of ink seem very oldfashioned, but they align very well with an eco-friendly lifestyle. For a start, lots of bottles of ink are sitting around unused while the ink is perfectly fine. There are lots of initiatives to make pens less wasteful – making the shells out of recycled…
Repair: Eleanor’s Carrying Bag
So I finished repairing my sister’s carrying bag! It had been sitting unusable in the music room for god knows how many months, lingering near the end of my “sewing to-do list”. This is one of her favourite bags, bought by my mother in Greece a few years ago and…
DIY Laundry Soap from Conkers
Believe it or not, the chestnuts that you step over on your daily lockdown walks are the perfect ingredient to wash your laundry in a sustainable way! If you spend as much time as I do skulking around Pinterest sustainability boards, you might have heard of Soap Nuts. Soap nuts…