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Blogs: Sustainability

Setting Aside the Pesticides

Nature is like a good garlic aioli. It's a beautiful, wonderful thing. But that doesn't mean we want it everywhere and on everything. Sometimes we need to keep the wilderness at arm's length and hang a bit of civility on what is usually a rather insistent web of life. The question is...

Close Quarters With Honey Bees

“By the way, we have about 8,000 honey bees in our living room.” As conversation-starters go, this is one of our better ones. And it’s true – we do have about 8,000 honey bees in our living room – give or take 1,000. Thankfully they are all very safely contained, with...

Toxic Gardening Tools Are a Growing Problem

For most of us, the household garden is an epicenter of our attempt to live a greener life and one of the few places where the only invited guest is nature itself. The things we grow there are the purest and safest possible. The trouble is, the things we use to grow them often are not. That's...

Founding Father Feted

Just before the Fourth of July, while the country steeped in memories of its birth and recalled the rebels who midwifed not just a new nation but a new way of thinking about such things, one of Seventh Generation's founding fathers was singled out for his own historic efforts. And it's an...

Sharing Our Local Bounty

What happens when you bring together  Seventh Generation employees, a bounty of fresh-from-the-farm produce, and one amazing local chef?  You get one incredible lunch! As part of our commitment to building a healthy community – both outside and inside our corporate walls – we...