Sustainable Living

Sustainable living is all about reducing our impact on the environment whilst still having fun! Here, you’ll find lots of tried and tested hints and tips including how you can reduce waste, the low-down on recycling, easy things you can do to cut down on plastic, how to start or improve your organic garden and information about shopping for Fairtrade products.

There are so many easy things you can do to live in a more sustainable way as you go about your everyday tasks. Once you’ve dived in and made a few simple changes you’ll find forming new habits is even easier and you may even get addicted to sustainable living!!

Plastic Free July: Our Second Week

Our pledge to avoid plastic bags (shopping and produce), takeaway coffee cups, straws and water bottles is going well so far. I think we're still at 100%.......
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8 Things You’re Doing To Avoid Single Use Plastic this Plastic Free July

We asked YOU all to let us know what you've got planned or what you're already doing for Plastic Free July. The responses were pretty amazing and it's clear...
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Plastic Free July Diary: Our First Week

OK, we're one week into Plastic Free July and I wanted to share our progress with you all. We're already pretty good with the big 4 (plastic bags, straws, co...
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Izzy and Lucy Want YOU to Refuse & Reuse

Meet Izzy Morritt and Lucy Rule. They are an inspirational pair of school girls with big, brave ideas about some pretty big (global in fact) issues. They bot...
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Tricky Broken Plastic Repair: How to use a FORMcard

So, let's take a look at our poor mower.... The throttle lever snapped off and even a good dose of superglue wouldn't have stood a chance with this plastic r...
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FORMcard – The Repair Tool Every Home Should Have

The FORMcard is a handy, credit card sized piece of thermoplastic. The inventor of this neat little gadget is London based designer Peter Marigold. His wish...
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BPA Free – What you Need to Know

What is BPA? BPA stands for Bisphenol A. BPA is an industrial chemical that is used in the production of polycarbonate plastics and also in the resins used t...
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Indulgent Chocolate, Coconut and Porter Pudding

If you need to impress someone or are cooking for a special occasion….this is a winner!!! It’s a really indulgent dessert; it’s rich, dark, creamy and...
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