Tree Hugging Family – Week in Review

Jennifer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:03 +0000

Hope everyone had a great day. Here’s our weekly round-up…

You still have a few days left to win a super cute reusable kids bag!

Peggy looked at the dangers of PVC this week:

60 Eco-Friendly Ways to Celebrate Spring

We learned about the new Celsias Show – Eco News & Fun by Podcast.

Make Your Own Natural, Colorful Dyes

We discussed Tree Hugging Lunatics

Tap Project: Help Kids When You Eat Out This Week

Donate to Environmental Working Group with One Click

We hugged a terribly cute little pika.

Homemade Non-Toxic Finger Paints

Peggy told us about an awesome eco book and her hyper cool Mork & Mindy belt.

This Saturday I looked at trees! We had a tree quiz (can you get the answers right?), tiny tree branches you can munch on, and great places to see trees.

With Easter hopping up (ha), it was sort of a low-key week around here, but still nice. We look forward to having you here this upcoming week. Also, in April we’ll be running a 20 day count-down to Earth Day – starting April 1st and many other cool bloggers from b5media will participating – you won’t want to miss it.

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Eating Tiny Sticks Is Fun!

Jennifer — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:08:37 +0000

So, I know I said we were talking about trees all day, but this is sort of along those lines. In high school I used ~~to skip~~, I mean wait until after school, and go to the co-op. I know, you’d think I’d sneak somewhere else. Anyhow, I used to get three items. Dried pineapple, honey sticks, and licorice root sticks.

I quit getting honey sticks a long time ago, because of the plastic issue (I do miss them), but I still get licorice root. Recently my son said, “Those look like little tree branches!.. And you can eat them!” He was excited that you could eat a tree stick.

They do look like little branches:

You peel a wee bit of the bark part off and you can eat, or more suck on the middle pulpy inner section.

Licorice root is something good to try if your little one has a belly ache, before resorting to medicine. Stomach problems is only one of the things that licorice root is good for. Read more about this fun treat and purchase here. Or check your local co-op or natural food store – mine sells them in bulk which eliminates the packaging. Cool.

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Tree Hugging Family – Week in Review

Eating Tiny Sticks Is Fun!