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I'm going to be exchanging gifts with some relatives who don't need much and are pretty low footprint folks. I'm going shopping later today and I've got some ideas in mind for useful green consumables - but if anyone has any suggestions for green/fair trade/hippie-ready gifts I'd love to hear them! What are YOU hoping for?
Past exchanges have included:
farmers market cookbook with a nutrition sustainability twist
baking dish
organic soaps
fair trade catalog gift cert.
For a truly "green" gift I wouldn't go shopping at all. Make them something nice... something edible, something to wear, tie-dye a pillowcase or bedding, make them a mix mp3 CD, take some cuttings from a plant and give it to them, put together a DIY picnic pack for them, make them a reading pillow, homemade potpourri, some homemade coupons or vouchers... like "Good for one movie date night" or "Good for one free cup of coffee at my place" or something like that... etc.
If you really want to buy something... buy them a native plant for their yard, or organic flowers, or donate to a charity in their name... buy them some carbon offset products... a book, a journal... go to a local craft fair where local artisans display and sell their creations and buy them something locally produces... sign them up for a CSA... give them a national forests pass or state parks pass or local botanical garden pass...
Thanks! Part of their gift is homemade treats, I do like to include that as cooking is one of my hobbies. I also ended up shopping at a natural foods store where I was able to get some goodies I think they'll enjoy.I LOVE the herb idea - I've got a garden and I'll have to do that next year!
I'm sending my freshly dug horseradish with recipes on how to use it, pickles I've canned this year, and my "Drunken Sot" fruitcake to all my friends who request it year after year... Grin. No crystallized ANYTHING in it - real fruit, nuts, and rum and brandy...
Hey, CometVoyager, I'll trade you some fruitcake and some fresh-frozen deer meat for some of that wood! The woodpile is getting a little low here... gotta keep that castiron woodstove redhot. Ahhhhhh....
(The only reason the deer meat is fresh frozen is because it was killed when the temps were below 0 - and still are.)
You've got my vote for your redistribution of the gubbermint jobs, too!
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My Green Christmas Gifts
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