Comments on The Green Phone Booth: Circle of Friends

Great list, Laura. I remember the days when I fir...

2012-01-15T20:09:15.812-08:00

Great list, Laura. I remember the days when I first starting reading blogs and then writing my own. I was so excited to find a community of like minded people to connect with.

This life you describe, Nicole, is want I want for...

2012-01-15T06:27:05.495-08:00

This life you describe, Nicole, is want I want for my family. I do what I can because I still do live in the city, but I'm working towards that goal. However, I would be hard pressed to find anyone in this area who is actually living that way. I don't know if it's this area or I just haven't found the right people, but a green lifestyle is still somewhat of a trend, not an actual lifestyle. I find that the people who make the changes for financial reasons are often the ones who stick with it rather than those who were enamored by whatever the celebrity du jour was last seen doing.

That being said, I am excited each year when I find another mom who wants to can with me or trade yogurt techniques!

I found your post interesting--because having grow...

2012-01-15T04:20:44.382-08:00

I found your post interesting--because having grown up in a rural area, all the the "new" green ways of childrearing and living were just the way we did it. We had a compost heap, a huge garden and I help to preserve fruit and veggies from the time I was very young. My mom baked bread, we ate home raised meat and she sewed most of our clothes. My grandmothers knit sweaters and mittens for us, and I was an adult before I had a store bought pair of mitts. My kids wore the mitts that I did when I was a child!

I love the movement back to the earth and simpler living, but it's really not new to me. The thing that has changed is that so many mothers now work out of the home--through necessity or desire--and no longer have the time to do everything by hand. My own kids are some of the few of their friends who know what homemade pickles, jam and bread taste like.