Brummet's Conscious Blog

In response to a lot of questions we've received, I thought I would write a series of articles (3) to answer your interest in how to go about greening a home and yard. We have been on this property for 3 years as of Oct 15, 2013. So I thought the best way to go about sharing what we did was to describe the order we did things in, one year at a time.   *Part 2 of this article will be published on January 7th How we went about the changes and upgrades to our home.  (Part 1) Based on previous properties that we had upgraded over the years we had a good idea how and where to begin with the 1978 home we purchased on October 15, 2010. While this was a well built home, structurally sound, very few upgrades had been done and it was a rental for a while as well. So it definitely needed work. The first thing we did when preparing for the move was to look for boxes from local businesses that we could reuse. While we do keep a lot of packaging materials...