If you happen to be green lovin’ and preggers there are plenty of eco-products available to help ease your pregnancy along. Here are three eco-friendly pregnancy products to check out…

One adorable organic maternity tee (or more!) three I LOVE include the tees shown above, all are 100% organic cotton and printed with non-toxic inks. Available at Euphoria Maternity:

Seeded Organics Boy Sprout Maternity Tee
Seeded Organics “Green Mama” Maternity Tee
Pure T Buy a Tee, Plant a Tree Organic Top

You know you want to keep primping during your pregnancy, but nail polish with all its toxic ingredients is a …read more

So the die hard candy fans out there might know that April 22; Earth Day, is also National Jelly Bean Day.  Odd but true. Actually seeing as how NJBD launched way back in the 1860s, one might say that National Jelly Bean Day is also Earth Day.

Still, the point now is that these events fall on the same day. If you’re interested in celebrating both events, I’d snag some eco-friendly beans. Such as…

Surf Sweets Jelly Beans: Made with organic fruit juice and sweeteners, 100% Vitamin C per serving, no corn syrup or GMO’s, gluten free, made in a nut-free facility.

Green …read more

In the last post we looked at Ingredients for Organic & Natural Homemade Chocolate Covered Cherries. Now let’s make some!
The night before: Place a cookie cooling rack on top of a regular cookie sheet. Place your cherries single file onto the cooling rack and let them sit in the fridge overnight. This helps to drain excess juice, which helps during the rolling and dipping process.
Rolling your cherries: The following day, grab a large mixing bowl and combine your butter, inverted sugar, condensed milk, extract, and powdered sugar. Mix and then knead this combo. It should be thick, and it may …read more

One year I got all ambitious and made homemade chocolate covered cherries as gifts for folks for the holidays. It was nuts. Mainly, I was upset because my cherries looked funky. It’s harder than it looks to dip them and have them turn out all pretty. My cherries looked nothing like this image above. Plus, I don’t even like eating them.
Still my family and friends thought they were a huge success. I guess they tasted great, in spite of their bizarre look.
If you need something to do this weekend, you can make your own organic chocolate covered cherries. I’m going …read more

We asked, “How are you greening your Halloween?”
Here’s what you said:
42% Not celebrating at all
25% Making costumes or buying used
17% Composting pumpkins after the 31st
13% Natural decorations (like mums)
4% Organic candy and treats
It’s good so many of you are making your own costumes or buying used. Hope you have a great time.
If you need tips on composting pumpkins, visit Earth 911.
Do you have a way you’re greening your Halloween that’s not mentioned above?
Image via MorgueFile.
Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes and everything else going on at Tree Hugging Family in October 2008.

Since we’ve been posting on greening your Halloween all month, you must be thinking about it already, right?
Please take our poll in the sidebar. If you don’t see an answer you like, add your own. We’ll take the poll down and discuss on Halloween.
Have you missed any Halloween-related posts? Here they are, just in case:
Organic Etsy Halloween Treats
Buy Nothing New Halloween

My pal Stacey who writes a blog you should visit at this time of year; Wee Ghosties :: A Beginner’s Guide to Ghost Hunting, sent me this great link to a very nice Green Halloween site.
Green Halloween is a Washington based website but the tools and ideas offered can be used anywhere to green up your Halloween. Halloween is a pretty trash filled holiday and that’s a good place to start thinking when planning your green Halloween. What can you do to lesson the waste that occurs this Halloween and still keep it fun for kids (and adults). Last year …read more