Like many of you I expect, I am slightly frightened by the thought of using a ‘real razor’. Whilst researching online I came across this company www.Executive-Shaving.co.uk.

Welcome to this month’s food blog. Thank you for joining me in my journey towards conscious and sustainable eating . I look forward to making the journey with you and learning as I go.

Welcome to this month’s food blog. Thank you for joining me in my journey towards conscious and sustainable eating. I look forward to making the journey with you and learning as I go. This month I am focusing on Broccoli.

The figures I have used from the internet estimate that 1.5bn to 2bn sanitary items are flushed down Britain's toilets each year. These flushed flushed tampons, applicators or pads accumulate and add to the growing issue of blocked drains and sewers.

The use of plastic to wrap food products has happened in my lifetime (in the 1950’s), and has been the case throughout my children’s lives, but thankfully there are now some brilliant products available to move away from using either silver foil or clingfilm in the first place so the issue of recycling it doesn’t arise.

Are you like us and have a number of black and coloured plastic plant pots in your shed, acquired over many years when buying seedlings and plants from garden centres?

Although the coloured ones can be placed into the recycling bin, we ideally need to stop acquiring them – and certainly the black plastic ones.

This will see the UK’s first ever Food Action Group week to highlight the impact of wasted food on people, businesses and on the planet. Everyone can play their part.

Each month I will be sharing with you one of the recipes that I have particularly enjoyed from the roasting Tin series as well as other sources.

I will be focusing on recipes that might encourage you too to switch to a less meat based way of eating.

I hope that some of you will try them out and share some feedback. You too might wish to share your favourite recipe based around the ingredient of the month.

When we surveyed in Shrivenham and local villages, a whopping 45% of all the main concerns which villagers voiced about their impact on the environment and climate change in their day-to-day life was their plastic use and packaging.

In response, Sustainable Shrivenham is therefore picking a relevant item per month during 2021 on which to offer some information to hopefully encourage everyone to give a plastic-free version a try! January’s product is shampoo bars.

Below is the full list of items accepted by Lisa at the Highworth Terracycle Scheme.

If you feel able to become a collection point in Shrivenham for any of the items on the list below then please do contact us to discuss getting started.

During the menopause it is not uncommon to experience mood swings, irritability, forgetfulness, sensitivity and even depression. Then there are physical symptoms – hot flushes, night sweats, being unable to sleep, umpteen trips to the loo in the night.

Not surprisingly bad skin on top of the hot flushes, mood swings, interrupted sleep and greying hair means we feel generally unattractive.

In this blog we explore some tips to help you keep your skin looking healthy and radiant to improve your mental wellbeing during this challenging life stage.

Everybody knows that the pursuit of environmental sustainability is important. But did you know how easy it was to achieve?

Here we have the gallery of children’s artwork from the competition we ran in partnership with the Shrivenham Primary School’s Eco Council supported by Angie Duncan

“My name’s Sandra and I’m a clothes addict”. There, it’s out there, and I could definitely be the founder member of a self-help group called ‘New Clothes Anonymous’!!

I use my shredder to cut up my weekly newspapers and any other softer, more absorbent paper types. I put the shredded paper into a large bucket and when the bucket is half full, I start making briquettes for my (multi fuel) log burner.

We’ve all been delighted with the addition of the new Farm Shop in Shrivenham this year. Something really positive for 2020! The team at Sustainable Shrivenham are huge supporters of shopping locally and plastic free packaging, and the new shop certainly fits the bill. As it is Plastic Free July this month, we decided to visit the shop to check out all of their plastic free packaging initiatives.

Have you ever fancied trying something new at the weekend? Or are looking for a fantastic dish that is appealing and will be appreciated by the whole family?

If so, please carry on reading and explore the wonderful world of vegan cooking.

About 20 years ago I bought a duvet cover that I liked so much I couldn’t bear to throw it away when I downsized my duvet. I have hung on to it in the hope that I would find a use for it which is exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago. Luckily I remembered where I had put it!

Our little friend the honeybee is not a protected species but really should be. It is said, if the honeybee disappears from the planet, we humans would find it exceedingly difficult to survive.

I have put together a short video to demonstrate the easiest bag making solution I have found. I have never been a keen seamstress so wanted to find something that involves the least amount of sewing