Beautiful Sweets Organic Bakery is one of my favorite online cookie shops, because one, they’re super green, two, they’ll ship fresh cookies all over the U.S. and three, they have awesome designs.
If you’re planning a scary Halloween party Beautiful Sweets cookies are perfect for the occasion – you could even wrap them and hand them out to kids you know for trick-or-treat. Take a look at these amazing Halloween designs…

Halloween
Pumpkin Fun – which your kids get to color with special food coloring pens!

Autumn Collection
Scarecrow
Eyes
Monster Faces

Beautiful Sweets bakes their cookies up with all organic ingredients from small sustainable family farms and …read more

Mixing healthy with fun is easy if you’re creative. Take a look at these cool Halloween treats below which are both healthy and spooky fun for kids. Click the links or images to learn how to make them with your own kiddos.

Haunted Forest Platter – toooooooo cute! And so darn creative. Who would have thought that eggs could look so evil?

Halloween, or more appropriately for tree hugging families, “green” Halloween is coming soon, so it’s time to get planning. Before we kick off this season, let’s take a look back at some previous green Halloween tips you can use.

TIPS:

Buy Nothing New Halloween was an idea last year, but it still holds up as an excellent plan for this year.
Green Halloween Costume Ideas
Non-toxic face paints for Halloween
Should you buy an organic pumpkin for Halloween?
Green Your Halloween Party

TREATS:

Organic Halloween Smoothie
Fair Trade Treats for Halloween

ECO-HALLOWEEN CRAFTS!:

Oodles of Free Recycled Halloween Craft Ideas
Recycled Autumn Kid Crafts
DIY Refrigerator Magnets
Nature Themed Autumn Craft

THIS YEAR:
There’s still time …read more

Happy October tree huggers! The two big events this month include the onset of autumn (yay) and Halloween. We’ll have some fresh green Halloween posts up this season of course, but first, to kick off the season, we’ll take a look back at some previous tree hugging worthy Halloween posts. This way you can get a head start on greening your Halloween activities.

Decor: 
Recycled Autumn Kid Crafts
DIY Refrigerator Magnets – (ok, not from here exactly, but fun, recycled art from our own Peggy – get ready to save those candy boxes!)
Nature Themed Autumn Craft
Treats: 
Yellow Label Kids -Halloween toys
Fair Trade …read more

Today we’re featuring a very cool (and unique) blog; All Holiday Cafe. If you haven’t been by this blog – you really need to visit. Blogger Sandy is over there serving up holidays on a daily basis. She covers all the basics, Halloween, Christmas, and so on, but also lets you know when it’s time for some obscure holidays like, Qing Ming, Valkyries Day, and more.
In honor of Earth Day Sandy has put together a very cool post about how to wrap up all those holiday gifts, without putting quite as large a toll on our planet. A must read …read more

With Halloween quickly approaching I figured it’s time to hug us some Solanum Pumpkin Tree.

This is a bit of a cheat because the pumpkin tree is hardly a tree and more of a smallish plant. Solanum is simply the botanical name for a group of specific plants — many sub categories of Solanum exist. This sub category is known as; Pumpkin Tree, Pumpkin on a Stick, Hmong Eggplant, and many others.
In this case the adorable tiny pumpkin looking fruits make this tiny tree-like plant hug worthy.

Florists use this for fall arrangements and they’re also used in some …read more

“Autumn trees” are not so specific but this is my first real autumn in years so I’m excited. Fall is my favorite season (maybe because I’m a November baby). For those of you who don’t know my bio; I grew up in Oregon, lived in Humboldt, and then…. moved to New Mexico. I’ve been in New Mexico for the last three years and just this last winter moved back to the Great Northwest.
There is no autumn in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Not my kind of autumn anyhow, as in no gradual autumn. It goes from the summer blaze to winter cold …read more