About Me

I'm passionate about the environment and I am writing and publishing a website on green living - www.greenfootsteps.com. The focus of the site is green living for a healthy lifestyle without breaking the bank.

I love gardening and wildlife, photography, reading and art.

I'm always interested in green living ideas, especially ones which make a greener lifestyle more accessible to all.

Borax Uses in the Home

How safe is borax? Which borax uses are good for home cleaning? How environmentally friendly is borax?

Bokashi - the future of composting!

  Bokashi is a new, revolutionary way of composting your kitchen waste. It was developed in Japan and it uses not-so-new micro-organisms such as yeasts and actinomycetes to work. In truth, it is not composting so much as pickling! It's...

Cleaning with common salt

Cleaning with salt is one a host of easy ways to be a little "greener" at home. It's very, very cheap, does no harm to the environment and it's easily available. It could also mean fewer trips to the shops, as you can dispense with some of...

cleaning with vinegar

Using vinegar as a cleaning agent is very easy. It's also very safe and very cheap and a whole lot better than many modern cleaning products, too! For more details please also see: http://www.greenfootsteps.com/cleaning-with-vinegar

Cleaning with Baking Soda

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Have you tried washballs yet?

Run out of washing detergent again? Here's a little gizmo you can use over and over. You'll certainly save some money, too.

Natural Soaps for Your Health and Wellbeing

I've just been researching soap for my web site. I'm not a vegetarian any more but I was a bit horrified to learn that a whole lot of modern soap is made from rendered animal fat! I wonder how many vegetarians know that? I'm not about to give up meat...

Grow Salads, Herbs and Flowers for Your Health

Growing your own vegetables and flowers can be great fun. It's not difficult and it's not expensive to start. In fact you can use recycled goods to get you going. You can also add the odd companion plant such as sunflowers which attract benefici...

Green living

I believe that it does not have to be all hard work and no fun! In fact, a lot of ways to green up our lives can be great fun. If we are involved with our local communities we can all help each other to become greener. Have a look here for a few ideas...

Why Organic?

Is it worth eating organic food and growing things organically in our gardens? Or is it just a scam to make more money from the poor exploited consumer? I believe that organic growing methods offer a sustainable and practical solution to our burgeoning...