With a growing number of eco-warriors around the UK we thought we'd explain our views and what drives us.
We love the planet and understand that if everyone had a zero carbon footprint, were enviromentally neutral and recycled everything then the World would be a better place. We also realised that with three kids, our own business to run and limited resources that this was unlikely to happen for us in a way that was realistic for our lifestyle.
So we decided we would simply do our best to avoid excessive waste, eat better tasting, less travelled food and keep a bit greener where we can without having a guilt complex if we can't.
The upshot is that we spend more time outside working as a family, our food tastes better, we save money and we get to try new things on a daily basis. There is a great sense of achievement in finding ways to improve your health and lifestyle when you eat one of your own carrots whilst sitting on a chair you have made yourself. Importantly for us our kids are learning the benefits of effort, patience, determination and knowing where their food comes from.
So wherever possible we:
- Eat our own fruit and veg
- Eat meat that comes from local producers which do not intensively rear their stock
- Eat eggs from our birds
- Recycle what we can
- Build our own furniture where time, skill and needs allow
- Keep bees
- Promote wildlife in our garden
- Make some our own cleaning products
- Choose environmentally friendly goods
