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Spooky Organic Halloween Cookies

Jennifer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:36:18 +0000

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 organic coops that support living wages. They use beautiful, eco-friendly recyclable gift packaging that includes post-consumer recycled boxes and organic cotton ribbon. They also bake batches fresh right before they ship them and guarantee that their cookies will arrive well protected and unbroken.

Visit Beautiful Sweets Organic Bakery to learn more.

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Healthy & Fun Halloween Treats

Jennifer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:51:29 +0000

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?

The most adorable Snack-o’-Lantern and Pizza Mummies you’ve ever seen!

Screaming Red Punch with a Hand – make this with organic juice for optimal healthy drinking.

Spider rolls – one word – ICK! I hate spiders. Kids would love this though.

This Calavera Sandwich amazes me! Just totally cool.

Also see a killer watermelon brain. If you’re looking for something amazing, but not as healthy, take a look at an adorable Halloween cupcake round-up. If you make any of the recipes, just switch out ingredients for organic.

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Green Halloween is Coming Soon

Jennifer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:21:31 +0000

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:

ECO-HALLOWEEN CRAFTS!:

THIS YEAR:

There’s still time to enter the ChicoBag & Green Halloween’s 2nd Annual Trick-Or-Treat Bag Design Contest and get signed up for Fair Trade Reverse Trick-or-Treating.

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Start Planning A Green Halloween

Jennifer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:00:55 +0000

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 Treats for Halloween

Take action:

Green Your Halloween Early

Fair Trade Halloween: Reverse Trick or Treat!

Have A Spooky Green Halloween

Random Halloween fun:

Hug This Tree: The Pumpkin Tree

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes and everything else going on at Tree Hugging Family in October 2008

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Count Down to Earth Day With b5media – Wrap Greener Holiday Gifts

Jennifer — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:05:49 +0000

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 if you ever give gifts (And I know you do).

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Hug This Tree: The Pumpkin Tree

Jennifer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:32:45 +0000

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 Asian dishes.

While carving is out of the question this is a great family plant. Kids love them! You and your family can learn how to grow your own little pumpkin trees from this place or that place.

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Hug This Tree: Autumn Trees

Jennifer — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:15:53 +0000

“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 seemingly overnight. There are no fall rain showers and there are no brightly colored streets of golden, orange, and red trees. It’s a sad, sad deal. Not to put down New Mexico — but…

I think it’s kind of like when people from other parts of the country move to Oregon and get so depressed because of all the rain. Well, I got depressed in New Mexico due to the lack of rain and trees. It’s like I had reverse seasonal affective disorder.

Here are some things I missed about autumn when I lived in the land of few trees and two seasons…

The gradual change from summer to fall; it gets a little chilly, a little more, then one morning you need a warmer hoodie. But real autumn never goes from summer tank tops to winter coats overnight.

Autumn frost!

How grilled cheese, tomato soup, and orange spice tea taste on autumn nights.

Weekend drives that look like this:

The smell in the air. When you smell real autumn you know it. It’s a mix of trees, rain, cold, apples, spice, and smoky fires burning… it’s tight and fresh and always reminds me of pumpkin fields and Halloween.

How blue and cold the sky looks.

That crispy feel in the air — before it becomes freezing but when it’s already cold enough to shiver. Night walks in this kind of air are nice.

But when you get right down to it… it’s all about the trees. Golden, orange, red, and brown. Autumn trees glow and are hands down the best part of the season. I think everyone should go and hug an autumn tree today.

More autumn delights soon to come; including art projects for the littles, organic treats, and how to green the season. Also, don’t forget to look for the amazing Blogtoberfest that our Family and Relationships Channel has planned — you’ll love it and maybe even win some prizes!

What are some of your favorite things about autumn?

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