Nooks and Crannies

When Green Was Just a Color

By DeAnn Kruempel
Posted 12/13/21

“We don’t want it to go to waste.” Our mother said it. She lived it. She taught it to her family. During our growing up years when we were saving, stretching, repairing, reusing and repurposing, we had no idea that we were using environmentally-friendly practices; the “green” movement had not yet begun. It was simply the way we lived.

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