Category: #YEG local

Edmonton Resource for Recycling and Waste

I am extremely proud to live in Edmonton, which is a world leader in recycling and waste management. The City of Edmonton has some awesome programs and facilities, and there are also many other organizations in Edmonton that offer recycling programs. I’ve tried to put these all together in this Edmonton resource for recycling and waste. Waste Wise App The...

Instant Pot Organic Roast Ham Recipe

I have never made a ham before, partly because of the nitrites and nitrates typically found in ham (I try to avoid these because of their connection to cancer). So, when The Organic Box started carrying meat from Serben Organic Farm (who became certified organic relatively recently), I was excited to try one of their hams. I’ve made beef roasts...

Chicken Quesadilla Dinner with SPUD Meal Plan

Since I tried SPUD’s roast beef dinner meal plan with success, I’ve been wanting to try another meal plan kit. SPUD.ca’s produce delivery service doesn’t just have produce – they also carry many other grocery products, including these great meal plan kits to make preparing meals as easy as possible. The Quick Quesadilla Dinner looked like a good pick –...

City of Edmonton WasteWise App #WasteWiseYEG

I’m so proud to live in Edmonton because of the city’s great work in waste management, recycling, and waste diversion (like the awesome Reuse Centre we have). Now the City of Edmonton has launched a new waste sorting app called WasteWise. Because it can be confusing to know what goes where (garbage, recycling, eco-station, etc), the new free WasteWise app is designed...

Got Milkweed? How to Harvest Milkweed Seeds

By now, you’ve probably heard that milkweed planting is a thing – since the David Suzuki Foundation’s Got Milkweed campaign has been encouraging people to plant it and help improve the monarch butterfly population. Well, did you know that fall is the best time to plant milkweed seeds. Milkweed seeds sowed just before the ground freezes in late fall —...

Farrow & Ball REVIEW via Carbon Environmental Boutique

This summer got a bit stressful for our family when we discovered that a sump pump failure had to led to seepage into our basement – and we started seeing little spots of mold in between the laminate boards. This meant we had to gut everything out of our developed basement, get rid of the mold and start from scratch....

SPUD Edmonton: Easy School Lunches

My daughter started Grade 1, which means that I have a looooong road ahead of me for packing school lunches. With a picky eater, and my desire to attempt to give her organic and healthy food options, easy school lunches can be tricky. Thankfully there are some great options available from SPUD Edmonton! They have local and organic produce, but they...

Sunworks Organic Farm: Family Farm Day

I’ve mentioned Sunworks Organic Farm in the past in my post about where to get good quality meat in and around Edmonton. To me, they have been the gold standard of organic, humanely obtained meat. Ron and Sheila Hamilton have been inviting customers to an annual family farm day around Labour Day weekend for many years now, and this year...

SPUD Edmonton REVIEW: Roast Beef Dinner Kit

I’ve been a longtime user of The Organic Box in Edmonton, when it was the first produce delivery service of its kind. It’s exciting to see the growth in the industry of good quality food delivery, and see some other companies joining the market. One company is SPUD, which has local delivery services in a few different Canadian cities, including...

Edmonton Reuse Centre: Crafty Waste Diversion #YEG

The Reuse Centre is a City of Edmonton service that accepts various items from residents free of charge, and makes them available to organizations and individuals for reuse. The Reuse Centre promotes the idea and benefits of reuse, and aims to provide affordable items to organizations and individuals, and to divert waste from landfill. Awesome, right? Here’s a little history on...