Emily, here!

My new vegie garden is bare, but has potential.

Checking on my strawberry plants, they are small and cute and barely showing any signs of fruit.

Will have to check back in a few days.

My one artichoke plant is showing signs of a baby.

Yeah, will have to find the perfect recipe for my main vegie.

If anyone has a great recipe for artichokes let me know!

Bill, here!

I'm on a mission to bike to work atleast one day a week. 

Challenge #1: review dusty old bike in garage and take inventory on what needs fixing!

Goal:  Start biking in time for National Bike to Work Week May 15th.

I'll keep you all posted.

Hi, My Name is Matt

It's Matt, from Eco-Me.  Blogging to you from my perspective which may be a bit different from the other folks since I'm seen as the "up-tight" one in the group. 

First off, I come from a business background and so all this "green" stuff is fairly new to me.  Heck, helping around the house is new to me since my wife went back to work and I've been testing out Eco-Me products at home....  let's say I can admit that vacuuming can be fun.  It's the chore that is the least disgusting and I like to pretend I'm in a rock back and sing old 8o's tunes while attacking our rugs.

It was almost a year ago when I asked my wife where she kept the cleaner.  She asked, "For what?"  I said, "the carpet! I'm gonna vacuum and help out."  Well, she almost fainted, but then shook it off and pointed at our vacuum.  "Yeah, but the stuff to clean the carpet?" I asked.  She shook her head and walked away.  Then it hit me, we needed a carpet cleaner.  We're not dirty people and our carpet is fairly new, but I thought everything needed a cleaners.

On Monday, back at work at Eco-Me, I asked if we had made a carpet cleaner.  "It's in the works." I was told.  No one was taking me seriously!!!!!!!

So I did my own research and came up with a basic carpet cleaner.  Of course then everyone wanted to be my best buddy.  I was even offered Dodger tickets for the recipe, which in the end I signed away to Eco-Me.  They were kind enough (well not sure if they had a choice) to name it after me.  Bill by Eco-Me, Carpet Deodorizer.

It's simple enough you can make it yourself, but Eco-Me does it for you so there is one less thing on the chore list!  Just baking soda, cornstarch and an essential oil mix that smells good, sweet and like adult candy I guess.  

So this one day of helping out my wife has left me with the never ending chore of vacuuming that I can't now ever escape, so I tap into my inner rock star and sing my heart out when I know no one can hear me!

Hi, My Name is Suzy

Hi Blog World,   This is Suzy.  

I'm not so much a neat freak as just hating dirty dishes.  Some people may call this a pet peeve, I call it gross.  Just don't like walking past a pile of dishes.  We take turns at my pad on this dirty chore, but more often than not I give in and do the deed.  

So when Eco-Me asked me to formulate a natural dish soap for their new line of premixed cleaners, I rolled up my sleeves and turned to Castile Soap.  Made from pure olive and coconut oils as well as aloe this pure soap is liquid gold!  It's a bit on the thin side, but works into a serious lather and washes away entirely with no residue.  I love the scent too!  Sweet Tea is a new essential oil blend by Eco-Me and it is awesome, smells like, well Sweet Tea (really reminds me of summer).

Really simple ingredients:  Castile soap, Sweet Tea Essential Oil Blend, Jojoba oil (for soft hands).  That's it, plain and simple with a twist of fresh and clean.

I'm trying to get the "higher-ups" at Eco-Me to come out with a bulk size of this dish soap so there is never an excuse at my house for leaving behind dirty dishes.  Oh and did I mention the best part is that I got my name on the bottle!  Suzy by Eco-Me, Dish Soap. Oh yeah!

Hi, My Name is Emma

Good Morning!  

That's me, Emma, a morning person with tons of AM energy.  

What else about me...  I love making smoothies, juicing, favorite chore is doing laundry and I'm a nut for organizing closets and getting rid of old stuff.  For some this is a chore they would rather not face, but for me, I am all over this.  

I even have friends who have invited me over to help clean their rooms (you know who you are) and have organized their layered lives with them.  Since I am super conscious about the environment and have become paranoid about throwing items into the trash (Eco-Me recently did a review on the effects of garbage on our earth....) I always look for cool ways to re-use, recycle or give away items.  This has become a fun new activity of sorts.  It's like an eco-craft of thriffiness (not really a word, but in blog space I think I can get away with it).

Stay posted for great smoothie recipes, juicing for good health and tips on cleaning the crap outta your closests and re-purposing!