While the birds sing, the sun shines and the critters emerge from Winter, here at the Pringle Creek Community it’s time to prune the fruit trees!

In a time when the market seems to be selling us everything with or “convenience”, we can’t help but notice what we are trading for this so called convenience. Our own food security, mental health and nutrition.

So lets push PAUSE on convenience and shout out the top 5 benefits to growing your own food.

This past week certainly had our community reeling didn’t it? For our kids, they seem shocked at the idea … one of the things we did while the power was out was make a list with the kids of everything that required electricity, and them we had them brainstorm with us a non-energy using replacement.

we are making an incredible impact on the environment with a drastic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel consumption, and even energy usage.

Today I invite you to look at your kitchen and make a commitment to decreasing the plastic and other wasteful items and replacing them with more eco-friendly options.

Salem’s very own Sustainable Living Center is helping to protect the health and wellbeing of Department of Human Services’ front line staff by facilitating the creation of cloth masks they can use.