Engie - ACTIVATE!

Thank you, everyone that joined me on team Engie - Activate! I hope everyone had fun with this, learned new things, and possibly found some useful changes to carry forward, or ones that you maybe weren't so successful at but will keep trying (side-eye at cutting refined sugars). Hope you all had a great October!

I almost checked that I am getting nothing done today... but I'm going to transplant my tomato plant cuttings (it worked! They grew roots! At least 1 of the 3 plants did). And work on getting rid of excess belongings and try to start re-organizing my apartment.

One of my friends taught me how to make her sauerkraut a week ago... it's still going. I'm not sure mine will turn out? But I'm crossing fingers. At worst: it's closer to turning out than my first attempt years ago without hands on instruction. I've also been researching recipes for using up abundance in tomatoes (my plants never ripened...

Overall, I believe that the people's ecochallenge 2025 is going well. Although I have days where I don't reach my goals, I am becoming more conscientiously aware of my impact on the environment. I am also learning helpful tips from others.

I finally made it to a farmer's market! The one still open is about 25 minutes away from me but I enjoyed my time there. Bonus: I remembered to reach out to a friend (she recently moved back to town and I keep forgetting) and we went together. Spent 30 minutes walking around outside, meeting different vendors, and bought ingredients for...

I swear there used to be an edible food map ... Spokane Edible Tree Project (which I had saved) seems to only be about linking orchards/etc with food banks, and not about sharing where one can harvest at will. Falling Fruit is a global map. Somebody posted a guava tree in Egypt (South of Cairo/Giza area I think?) Some countries have little to...

I’ve become deeply committed to reducing my environmental impact—particularly when it comes to plastic use. Rather than relying solely on recycling, I’ve focused on repurposing plastics in creative and practical ways. Here are a few steps I’ve taken: Switched to ceramic water filters to eliminate bottled water from my routine. I learned that...

I just finished watching Regaining Food Sovereignty. Despite the reminder that fry bread is NOT traditional I still love fry bread (and yeah, not healthy either, but... fry bread *heart*). I multi=tasked while watching and found Northwest Meadowscapes Native Seed. I plan on a combination of planted bulbs, container garden, and scattered...

This fall it's all about apples, tomatoes (both ripe and green), and cabbage. Thanks to friends with excess.

Wanted to share a photo from Friday when I went apple picking. This was picked from TWO trees, in about 20 minutes. Golden delicious (hidden bottom half) and whatever these red ones are. Woman with the orchard isn't sure what kinds of apples she has "granny smith, red delicious, I don't know the rest". She has a ton of golden...