Home Made Applesauce

Get about five pounds of apples. Peel the apples, take the core out, and cut them up into small pieces. Put the apples in a pot with about one cup of water and boil for about twenty minutes or until they become soft. When the apples are soft, continue to cook until most of the water is gone. Then add about a half cup of brown sugar and some cinnamon to taste. Simmer and stir until you have the desired consistency.

Use Your Local Farmers Market

I know it's hard to get up early on a Saturday morning, and go to your local farmers market in town to buy baked goods and produce. But this is one way to reduce the amount of goods being shipped in from far away, and thus we save energy. Also,the baked goods and produce might be of better quality than the stored bought items.

If you can, locate an apple orchard near you, and go out and buy a bushel of apples. Make your own apple sauce. It's easy to make apple sauce. Now you have preservative free apple sauce. Take your apple sauce to the farmers market and sell it.

Start A Compost Pile

Starting a compost pile for your garden is an excellent idea. The results will make your garden grow better, and the trash man will not have as much to pick up each week.

A compost pile could consist of straw, coffee grounds, leaves, egg shells, old garden produce, potato peals, horse manuer, and any other organic material. The pile should be turned about every week or two, and should be kept moist. When the pile turns to dirt, put the dirt on your garden.

Start A Small Garden

Each year more and more food items are being imported from foreign countries. Everything from tomatoes to onions are transported into the United States by trucks. This takes gasoline and produces pollutants in the air.

Start a small garden in your back yard or on your patio. Tomatoes are easy to grow. You can even grow them in containers. Cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, and peppers are all easy to grow. The more we grow at home, the less we have to import. The fewer trucks on the road, and the less pollution.

Automobiles in the United States

If we want to go green in the United States, we need to reduce the number of eight-cylinder automobiles on our roads. Many people are driving V-8's that don't really need all that power. I have a four cylinder automobile that gets 40 miles to the gallon of gas, and it will go seventy miles per hour.