You have cut all kinds of plastic: to-go cups, shopping and produce bags and bottled water. Here are 10 easy, free ways to cut more.
How to Blanch and Peel Tomatoes and Make Tomato Skin Powder
To render velvety smooth sauces, blanch and peel tomatoes. But don’t worry! The skins need not go to waste. Turn them into tomato powder.
How to Make Fig Leaf Tea with Foraged Fig Leaves
Fig leaf tea tastes something like mild green tea—grassy and earthy—and has a sweet woody fragrance. Forage the leaves and drink for free!
Gardening Is Good for Your Mental Health and the Planet
When stress, anxiety, or sadness creep in, stepping into a garden can offer you some much needed relief. These five tips will get you started.
How to Blanch Green Beans and Freeze Without Plastic
Blanch and freeze seasonal green beans to save money and cut the plastic packaging of store-bought. Freezing also reduces wasted food.
Whole Wheat Flour Tortillas Are Easy to Make
This flour tortilla recipe calls for only five ingredients and cuts the plastic that almost all store-bought tortillas are packaged in.
How to Make Onion Skin Fabric Dye
Revive tired clothing and drab fabric with onion skin dye that renders shades from golden to orange to brown.
How to Make Sourdough Discard Calzone
This calzone recipe helps reduce planet-heating wasted food. Fill the dough with food on hand, ensuring that more of that food gets eaten.
MK’s Waste Free Strawberry Blueberry Galette with Semolina Pastry
Have strawberries past their peak? Save those berries while wasting zero pastry in a rustic galette—no trimming of the dough required.