Linda Swanson

Where I live, corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in all directions. The crops eventually become ingredients in everything from high fructose corn syrup

Can you fit your yearly output of household trash in a single quart-sized jar? Bea Johnson can. Sometimes I meet people who take sustainable living

In September, when it was still warm, I nearly stepped on a slug, four inches long, stretched out magnificently as it slid across the sidewalk—

It’s pouring outside my window— that kind of rare, steady rain that has every sign of settling in for the duration. Rainy days like this

Have you ever noticed that every month, most shelter magazines feature one or two articles about getting organized? It used to be the big January

I used to toss perfectly good leftovers into the trash or flush them down the disposal, usually because I was in a hurry, living a

Some friends of mine own a small storage facility. Every once in a while, they have a garage sale to dispose of the things people