How to Welcome Nature Into Your Home This Spring
The sights and sounds of spring bring a sense of renewal and refreshment. Ice melts into running water, green buds unwrap on tree branches and birds fill the air with songs of welcome. Unfortunately, responsibilities can reduce the time you get to spend outside. An easy solution is to bring nature indoors. Studies have shown […]
Planning Spring Projects With An Environmentally-Friendly Mindset
By the time spring rolls around each year, most people are ready to tackle new projects, get involved in spring cleaning, or spend more time outside creating a beautiful, colorful stage for their homes. Spring and “greenery” go hand-in-hand, but that doesn’t always mean spring projects are environmentally-friendly. To make sure they are, you may […]
7 Eco-Friendly Tips to Keep Your Home Bug-Free This Spring
Spring is the best time to get outside, enjoy the fresh air and grill in your backyard. The warm weather is refreshing after many long months of freezing rain and snow, but you’re not the only one enjoying the change in climate. Bugs also crawl out into the sunshine and start looking for food or […]
Tips to Prepare Your Garden for Spring
Spring is just around the corner, so it is time to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. As the days become warmer and warmer, the frost from winter months begins to thaw, there will be more spring gardening tasks facing you. Just looking at the leaves left in autumn, dead grass stalks, […]
Environmentally Friendly Ways to Prepare Your Home for Spring
Winter is a beautiful season. For many, the snow is a time to enjoy the outdoors, while for others, it’s a time to cozy up by the fire. Even as an avid winter-lover, however, the first day of spring always brings a smile. A warm breeze. Blue sky. Birds chirping. It’s the season of life, […]
Flowers, Flowers and More Flowers
With Spring right around the corner, flowers are beginning to make their presence known. Here, at the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch, the flowers are in full bloom. These rows and rows of flowers go almost as far as the eye can see. Flowers, flowers and more flowers! So, whether you’re buried deep in snow […]
Blanket of Snow
Well, Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring this year. I guess only time will tell. All I know is these pink flowers look mighty pretty with a blanket of fresh snow. Image by Guilhem Vellut | Used with permission via the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
Green Your Spring Cleaning in 4 Easy Steps
If you’re like a lot of people, you’ve probably already started on your spring cleaning and that’s great. Making an effort to thoroughly clean your home (at least once a year) is something we all should strive to do. No matter how far you’ve come along, we wanted to give you some tips on how to […]
10 Eco-Friendly Spring Cleaning Tips
Spring is already here and if you haven’t already done your round of Spring cleaning, now is the time. Remember, Spring cleaning is more than just dusting or straightening up. It is a whole process. A process which, if done right, can help lighten, brighten and freshen up your home more than you might imagine. […]
Gearing Up for a Bio-Friendly Spring
Well, today is the last day of Winter here in the Northern Hemisphere and tomorrow we will be welcoming Spring. Depending on where you live, you may or may not be ready to welcome Spring, but either way I figured I’d give you a few green tips to help you gear up for a bio-friendly […]