Where are we?

This has been a gradual journey, where little by little we have been trying to do our best to reduce the impact of our living on the environment and trying to live as close to nature as possible.   This is a little bit about where we are right now......I am sure I will come back to some of these things in detail at a later date.....this is just as they came to me.....

• We no longer drink tea or coffee and instead drink herbal tea from metal tea balls rather than buying boxes of tea.  I would like to one day grow our own herbs and dry them instead of buying them in.  We drink fresh nettle tea everyday, from a crop of nettles which are in our garden, we pick the little tops off and put them in our teapot in the morning and the nettle tops regrow giving us an endless supply.
• We try to buy organic food.  This is for the benefit of the soil and creatures who live inside her as well as for ourselves, for the people who will walk upon this earth long after us and use her to grow their food.
• We have recently bought a polytunnel after much consideration.  I don't like using plastic and worry about the impact of buying and using a polytunnel, but cost wise and safety wise the polytunnel seemed the best option to be able to grow a good crop of vegetables and salad for our family.  We are also using some of the soil in our garden which is not covered over to grow raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, we have several apple trees which were here when we moved in, we also have herbs....i love herbs too :), potatoes, 
• I had a mad moment of removing all the electrical devices from our bedroom, we no longer have a cd player, or bedside lamps.....I would love to read by beeswax candles at night....but have not worked out how to make the light strong enough in winter...so this is work in progress.
• I have also replaced all of our plastic stuffed duvets with cotton sheets and some natural quilts which i made in a rustic homemade patchworky way.
• I have removed carpets from our house so i can feel the wood beneath my feet and so that we can simply sweep them clean.
• We have managed without a freezer for a while, but it is still switched on.  Peggy's placenta was in there until the 8th July 2013 when she turned one and it was given back to the earth to celebrate her birthday.