a veg life

(posted by Emily) In honor of St. Patrick's Day, here is a quick top ten list of my favorite green things! Green can of course mean literally green, but I'm also using it in an eco-friendly context, too :) Top Ten: Things that are green 1) Our garden ! It has been so nice to get things spruced up over the past few weekends. Loving the time spent outside. 2) Green juices . We are embarking on a juice/raw food cleanse for the next two weeks, so these will definitely be our friend! 3) Avocados. I even snuck one in my berry smoothie this morning to make it extra creamy. 4) Kale . We've said it before, I'll say it again. Lots of love for kale in this family! 5) The Prius . Although Rick uses the Prius as his car on a day to day basis, I am still grateful to have a hybrid in the family and grateful my husband lets me borrow it whenever I have a long drive. 6) My green milk crate for recycling at school. I recently found out that despite having two bins ...

(posted by Emily) After doing a little reading online this weekend, Rick spent sometime in the garden removing low-hanging leaves from most of our plants. While we don't get a lot of pests, we do get some and any way to combat bugs is worth checking out. After all, eating and farming organic means sharing your food with the bugs--right, Jennie ? :) He pulled off a huge stack of leaves, and we had to figure out what to do with them. Sure, some could be used for salads, but that would only make a small dent in the total harvest. So, he decided we would make some green juice. The leaves filled the big side of our sink as they sat to soak and remove dirt/bugs. Once the greens had sat for a while, we teamed up to rinse everything and juice. Needless to say, we ended up with a lot of green juice :) We used the green juice as a base for some quick smoothies with frozen fruit and ice. We used a combination of bananas, blueberries, mangos, and strawberries. Because o...