Must admit, shame on me, beside putting the paper, cans, glass and plastic in the recycling boxed I don’t do to much. I consume and recycle with today’s technologies but don’t do it the old way.

Thanks again to reminding us and will keep in mind the green living.

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Yep… I hear your New England accent hidden away.

Congratulations on drawing us all out to share stories of our lives. Stories are so important and I love to hear them and share my own.

I grew up in the fifties and sixties in central California (but I got to Montana just as soon as I could). We used manure on our gardens and flowers and that’s about the extent of my green living as a child.

My dad was an agricultural inspector and used pesticides freely on our own property. When the environmentalist writer, Rachel Carson, came out with her important book SILENT SPRING, my dad shared it with me.

As time went by, I learned that I had been living in a pesticide and herbicidal polluted area. Our soil and water supplies were and still are horribly polluted.

Later, because I moved to San Jose, CA, our water was highly polluted from IBM and Fairchild corporations into our neighborhood municipal water supply. We couldn’t keep a reverse osmosis water filter in working order more than 3 days! And all our family of five began to develop white moles all over our bodies. We couldn’t wake up in the mornings, either… that was true for our family and all our neighbors.

Today, we live in Montana. When we first moved here, there wasn’t even newspaper recycling going on. Now our small town is organized to recycle bottles and plastics, etc.

Going green is gradual, more gradual for some areas.

It’s fun to learn how we all live, isn’t it? Living and doing our best.

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It’s amazing how much knowledge generations from the past had about green living.

I spent a lot of time on a farm as a boy and I must say that the dear old chooks (chickens) had a fair role in the green living cycle…

They would get the scraps left over from dinner, which would either come out as eggs or manure, both of which we used. When the time was right we’d then eat the chicken too.

I guess they got a pretty raw deal of it.

We used to have a compost bin where we’d put lawn clippings, manure, and other scraps that would eventually end up in the soil for the garden.

We had water tanks to catch the rain which also was used for watering the plants.

Even though the farmers would complain about the ‘greenies’, they were actually pretty green themselves.

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Going back in time I remember how they would find repeat uses for items and not purchase items that were not needed. We recycled clothes and coats and other objects instead of buying new. Food was made into leftovers and gardens were planted. This is how my parents were raised and they carried it throughout their lives.

Other items included:

- ham cans for dog food dishes
- an old cooking pot for dog watering
- cardboard / plywood for dog houses in the garage
- old blankets for dog bedding & curtains
- lots of scrap wood, metal, screws, etc.
- plastic milk jugs / coffee cans
- a spool, a washer / piece of soap, a match / tooth pick, and a rubber band (instant self-propelled tractor!)
- nuts / bolts as fishing weights
- corks for fishing bobbers
- a huge bag of rubber bands from the daily paper
- even a fore runner of the zip bag. We used parts of our dog’s diabetic syringe sheath as a sleeve / cap closure system and reused produce bags we’d had dry goods in for air tight dried fruit storage.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. If there was an idea for reusing something it was likely tried at least once. We called it “common sense thrift”.

I appreciate you,

Bill Tessore

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All my best to you and what you re-use
Phillip Skinner

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I grew up in the 50′s and 60′s in Northern California and remember living and working on our farm – mostly working – plum orchards, sheep for wool and $, cows for milk, butter, ice-cream (yum), vegetable gardens with seasonal veggies, repairing and tightening fences, grape vineyards, clearing oak trees every August, sawing, chopping, stacking into cords, coverings for winter (we didn’t have city water and no heat in the Winter – thus the firewood and kindling I had to chop every morning before dawn and load into the wood-burning stove we used to heat water and the house every morning), cleaning barns, chasing sheep up and down steep canyons – it all was scheduled and timed to fit the growing seasons of each of the crops we grew. It was hard work for anyone and everyone in our house had our chores and responsibilities. It was necessary that each of us do our part or the farm wouldn’t function very efficiently. I don’t think of that work as very ‘green’ in the sense that you do. To me green means using modern technology to solve age-old problems – solar panels and wind power towers to generate electricity and run our appliances, fuel converters in our vehicles to allow us to run our vehicles on water and gasoline, indoor hydroponic gardens and fertilizers to keep our table full of fresh vegetables, envelope-style home designs to conserve the heat and keep the house cool in the summers, better insulation materials in the attic and in the walls, double-pane windows for insulation. All this technology in my mind has been progressive and good for people.

We collected bottles too. But we washed them well and my mother made homemade rootbeer, filled and capped the bottles and we waited for it to get really good before we could drink it. Some was so powerful it would explode sending rootbeer to the ceiling.
Years later after being married and having a couple of kids, I started using biodegradeable products, why?? because all the lakes and rivers were becoming polluted. The word green was for green grass and trees. Biodegradeable had not been coined, but here we are living a ‘green’ life and everyone thinks it is a new thing.
Thanks for the memories.
Grace

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