Quinoa, Black Bean and Mango Salad Ingredients: 1 cup quinoa 1 ripe mango, peeled and diced 1 small red or yellow pepper, seeded and diced 2 cups packed baby spinach, torn or sliced 1 cup black beans, rinsed and drained 1/4 English cucumber, chopped 2-3 green onions, chopped, or 1/4 cup chopped purple red onion Dressing: 3 tbsp canola oil 2 tbsp white wine...
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Green Your Bird Feeder A green way to assist our fine feathered friends over the winter is to make a bird feeder out of something biodegradable – a fruit, vegetable or gourd – that, at the end of winter, will leave nothing but a piece of string for the birds to use for their nest. Use a sharp knife to slice the top off your chosen feeder – suggestions...
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A new, ingenious device called the “Cubed Stapler” is available for this upcoming school year from www.grassrootsstore.com. Not often do you hear ingenious and stapler in the same sentence (and how is this green!!) but this little device cuts little fl aps in the corner of the paper, folds the fl aps back and then tucks them into a tiny slit. And there...
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