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Picking olives for oil – how to produce enough oil for a year when you don’t own any olive trees
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Ah, the annual olive oil harvest. For the last several years, I've dedicated a weekend to picking olives and sending them to an olive press to extract the oil. This gives me enough…

How I started a community street planting project
When I moved to the street where I now live two-and-a-half years ago, I immediately noticed the weedy strip of land at the end of it. My street is a cul-de-sac, but at some stage in…

7 common recycling mistakes that people make (+ what to do instead)
Talking enthusiastically about recycling might feel like stepping back into the nineties, when most of us thought (didn't we?) that recycling was an effective way to combat climate…