Whispering Willow Blog

Lately we've been getting in an eco groovy mood and have been looking through our ingredients and supplies to see if we can get a little greener.  This is a fun exercise we do several times a year because we just don't think its a good idea to rest on...

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Although we keep bees, we have (mostly) allowed them to keep themselves this season.  We had a few extra hours on Saturday and decided it was about time to take a quick peek and see how they were faring. Below is the hive in our back yard.  We added an...

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We love farmer's markets.  Really.  We are aficiandos (aka snobs) of sorts.  It seems strange, but market visiting is what we tend to do as our touristy thing in almost every city we visit.  Out of the markets we visit, we also prefer the locally-focused, producer markets.  No resellers, most...

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"Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find." ~Quoted in Time

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"There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land". ~Sir Paul McCartney

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