Doin' whatcha can

When Meg and I started doing this whole quest for sustainable living thing, our primary mission was to live simply and be happy. As we began to explore the blogosphere to resource like minded folk, we were encouraged by the diversity of all the homesteaders, backyard gardeners, tiny farmers, and kitchen witches. There's a polyculture of knowledge out there.

For a bit there we were under the terrible misconception that what we had to strive for was some sort of collection of the whole. Thankfully we learned real quick that logic like that has no logic at all. What we've learned is that if we all do what we can, collectively we're making a big difference.

There have been a lot of posts floating around lately about what compromises and sacrifices people make in their personal quests to be a little bit greener. However, beyond the personal, the collective has been providing some creative solutions that are certainly making our world a better place. Maybe because there's not a lot of outside planting going on right now, many of these posts have been focusing on non-botanical environmentalism: using cloth bags, recycling plastic bottles, and salvaging sinks. I'm salivating at the thought of what inventiveness this new growing season will bring and how much better we will all be for it.