Basket-Weaving 101

Henrietta makes a top panel

The three “R’s” of ecology (Recycle – Reduce – Reuse) all get together in this home project that I found in today’s news featured in The Star online (Malaysia). The article has you take the classifieds (or any newspaper section!), fold, weave and “sew” the sides with string, and what do you have? A basket just the right size to for you to put in – what else?- your newspaper!
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Got Daioni?

Daioni- organic milk
Daioni, meaning ‘goodness’ in Welsh, it is what you call an organic, shelf-stable, award-winning, naturally flavored milk beverage produced by Trioni Ltd., an organic dairy based in West Wales. It was established in April 2002 by three organic farmers.

The flavoured milk drinks are available in chocolate, strawberry and banana flavours and are sold in schools and colleges, as well as at 500 retail outlets across the UK.

On the heels of the international reports (also here) that organic food is better, Health Patio wishes we could serve all the “flavours” ourselves.
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